Wayward Music Series – Upcoming Concerts
Wayward Music Series: FHTAGN + noisepoetnobody
Friday, November 13, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A program of controlled improvisation sessions directly inspired by selected works of Charles Ives, plus noisepoetnobody’s Driftwood Orchestra captures the voice of a forest under constant strain from civilization.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Judy Dunaway + Susie Kozawa
Saturday, November 14, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Avant-garde compositions on amplified latex balloons and works performed using a collection of homemade instruments, toys, and found objects.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: 17 x 3 Fest: New works inspired by a pair of numbers
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A dozen composers from the Seattle area plus four instrumentalists rally around the theme of 17 x 3. Nominally a celebration of one of the instrumentalists’ 3rd 17th birthday.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Yann Novak, Robert Crouch, special guest
Friday, December 4, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Join sound and visual artists Novak and Crouch as they kick off their west coast tour with a special guest.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Carol Robinson
Saturday, December 5, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Robinson's works often combine acoustic sounds with electronics, and her musical aesthetic is strongly influenced by a fascination for aleatoric systems.
$5-$15
A Gathering: A box of sound, art & words
Saturday, December 19, 2026 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
What will become of these 56 boxes of visual art, text, and music?
$5-$15
Dead Tosa | Arrington de Dionyso & Oomung Varma | Hair & Space Museum
Thursday, January 7, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Impressionistic soundscapes, Hindustani classical music, and multimedia meditations on the generative, cosmic properties of sound.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Nick Demopoulos + Vance Galloway
Friday, January 15, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Exploring algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence, and fractal rhythms with unorthodox and microtonal tunings.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Ray Larsen
Thursday, January 21, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Unique instrumentation and diverse compositional and improvisational approaches – a live recording of 14 of Seattle’s great improvising musicians.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Anne H. Goldberg, Music & Movement
Friday, January 22, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Debut solo concert in Seattle featuring works by Vinko Globokar, Beat Furrer, Georges Aperghis, Jacob ter Velduis, and Kevin Baldwin, a world premiere of her own music, and others.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Medina/Walsh, Thunder Grey Pilgrim, et al
Saturday, January 23, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Short film with processed guitar and synthesizer; experimental sonic and video environments, using a network of old cameras, TVs, modular synthesizers, and other glitch boxes; a doom-laden string trio; and reverb drenched psych folk.
$5-$15
Jonas Reinhardt + Panabrite + Monadh
Thursday, January 28, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Live ambient and experimental electronics.
$10
Nineteen Crimes + Red Fable
Saturday, January 30, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A powerful evening of sound and film.
$5-$15 donation
Seaver & Witscher | Mark Lewis | RM Francis
Friday, February 12, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Cleaning & math in a musical context; new electronica; and computer music that incorporates granular synthesis, spectral processing, algorithmic composition, and image sonification.
$5-$15
The Westerlies + Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee
Saturday, February 13, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous," followed by compositions extended by improvisation, songs and settings of the poetry of Nazim Hikmet.
$10-$20
Wally Shoup / Greg Campbell / Greg Kelley
Thursday, February 18, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Three experienced Seattle musicians come together to fine tune the art of improvisation.
$5-$15
Inverted Space: Ferneyhough residency
Friday, February 19, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Brian Ferneyhough – Fanfare for Klaus Huber
Brian Ferneyhough – Mort Subite
Brian Ferneyhough – Adagissimo
Brian Ferneyhough – Intermedio alla Ciaccona
Brian Ferneyhough – Flurries
Mark Applebaum – Ferneyhough ReMix
Mark Applebaum – Fanfare for Brian Ferneyhough
Joel-Francois Durand – Enfance (premiere)
Joel-Francois Durand – Hermetic Definition
Brian Ferneyhough – Mort Subite
Brian Ferneyhough – Adagissimo
Brian Ferneyhough – Intermedio alla Ciaccona
Brian Ferneyhough – Flurries
Mark Applebaum – Ferneyhough ReMix
Mark Applebaum – Fanfare for Brian Ferneyhough
Joel-Francois Durand – Enfance (premiere)
Joel-Francois Durand – Hermetic Definition
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Eric Rynes CD release concert
Thursday, February 25, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Rarely-performed and extraordinarily diverse contemporary works for solo violin and violin with computer-realized sounds.
$5-$15
Nineteen Crimes / Janet Feder / Chris Icasiano
Saturday, February 27, 2027 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
In her latest manifestation, called Nineteen Crimes, Jen Gilleran is joined by the brilliant Janet Feder on guitar and Chris Icasiano on drums to explore Feder’s work and latest release T H I S C L O S E.
$5-$15
Wayward Music Series: Lori Freedman + Seth Josel
Wednesday, March 3, 2027 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New works traversing the limits and thresholds of the low clarinets, plus the US premiere of
point/wave
, a 45-minute piece for steel-stringed acoustic guitar and live ambient sound processing by composer Cat Lamb.
point/wave
, a 45-minute piece for steel-stringed acoustic guitar and live ambient sound processing by composer Cat Lamb.
$5-$15