Wayward Music Series – Upcoming Concerts
Wayward Music Series: Chris Brown: Six Primes
Saturday, July 8, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Six Primes (2014), for piano in 13-limit just intonation is a suite of six pieces that use the six prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13 to govern both the tuning and rhythmic structure of the music, including the harmony and rhythmic subdivisions.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Blown Reunion
Friday, July 14, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
64 Box-Fans pointing up: primal human conflict transformed a flexible rush of air through the circular chamber, rushes into a crack in the mountain and disappears.
$5-$10 sliding scale (free with boxfan)
Wayward Music Series: FHTAGN vs. Driftwood Orchestra
Saturday, July 15, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Get caught in the sonic crossfire as two groups present different ways to manipulate modified pieces of wood.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Laraaji
Saturday, July 22, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New-age visionary sound artist Laraaji performs new music with modified electric zither/harp, voice, kalimba, and electronics.
$15-$20
Wayward Music Series: Thea Farhadian + Ewa Trębacz
Thursday, August 3, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Fumes of disassembled harmony and dissonant refractions are followed by a violin-horn duo with computer-realized sound.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: High Plains + Wild Card + Cruel Diagonals
Friday, August 11, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Please join us for a night of music by Kranky recording artists High Plains, the new duo of Scott Morgan (loscil) and Mark Bridges, in support of their debut release Cinderland.
$10-$15
Wayward Music Series: Daryl Seaver / Cameron Shafii / RM Francis
Friday, August 18, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Sound scenes that emphasize the materiality and morphology of spatial textures, plus a compendium of non-redemptive transformations and asymmetrical translations in the twinned idioms of chocolate and sound.
$10-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Kosaly-Meyer's 'Gradus…'
Saturday, August 19, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An ongoing composition in progress for piano, exploring through improvisation a slowly expanding collection of pitches, and their grounding in silence, in patient attentive microscopic detail.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: M. Barreca + J. Muir + S. Peters
Friday, August 25, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of ambient/electro-acoustic music celebrating new releases by three Seattle artists on local labels that have since moved on to warmer climes.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Jarrad Powell + Golden Retriever (Portland)
Saturday, August 26, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Jarrad Powell will present some of his electronic music, offering up a rare opportunity to experience these works outside of a music for dance context. Opening will be Portland duo Golden Retriever.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: End of Summer Improvisations & Meditations
Thursday, August 31, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A great setting for musical quiet and reflection — though not without some wonderfully noisy moments! With artists James Falzone, Heather Bentley, Paul Kikuchi, Steve Peters, Steve Barsotti, Doug Haire, and Tom Varner.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Steve O’Brien’s moving out
Friday, September 8, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The evening will start with a brass quintet piece, then two septet pieces, trios arranged for sextet, collective improvisations using conduction, and more.
$5-$15 suggested donation
Wayward Music Series: Janet Feder & Fred Frith
Saturday, September 9, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Come for the incredibly lovely compositions, stay for the wildly inventive improvisational interplay.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Evan Smith, Saxophone
Thursday, September 21, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Contemporary-classical works bridging the divide between composition and improvisation and exploring the flexible sonic palette of the saxophone.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: S. Eric Scribner: 'Fantastical Sounds: Music from Tond'
Friday, September 22, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Modal or microtonal – and often strongly rhythmic – music based on traditions everywhere but with a sense of strangeness from an invented world.
$5-$15 donation at the door
Wayward Music Series: Sahba Sizdahkhani
Saturday, September 23, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Slow, long-form compositions coupled with primeval pulse-rhythms.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Hans-Joachim Roedelius + XAMBUCA + Hair & Space Museum
Thursday, September 28, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Of the greatest innovators of the krautrock and ambient movements.
$12
Wayward Music Series: Love Theme + Sun Pack
Friday, September 29, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
New-age dirges with drones, dark-toned horns, and background static, plus the sound of sitting on the rocks by a lake...
$12 advance, $14 at the door
Wayward Music Series: Radiosonde
Saturday, September 30, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
With scores designed by Graczyk and Baker, the group follows prompts (shapes, words, colors) to give an overall shape to the moment-by-moment decisions being made in real-time.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Matrio + Trevor O’Loughlin
Thursday, October 5, 2028 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Venue unknown, WA, United States
Matrio is an improvising collective; with influences ranging from Olivier Messiaen to The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Matrio creates set-long experiences that explore the space between sound, noise, music, and silence.
$5-$15 at the door