Concerts

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. The piano is re-tuned in a just intonation in which …

Bay Area composer Zachary James Watkins (half of the duo Black Spirituals) is joined by outstanding Seattle musicians – guitarists Tom Baker & Satchel Henneman, violinists Austin Larkin & Tari Nelson-Zagar, violist Heather Bentley, bassist Darth Nielsen, and trombonist Greg Powers – for an evening of compositions exploring site specificity and just intonation, among other …

The Drone Cinema Film Festival, now in its third year, showcases cutting-edge, minimalist works of ethereal beauty that bring sonic drones into the visual realm. This year’s festival, whose theme is GOLD, takes place again Vrijplaats in Leiden, Netherlands, as well as at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel in Seattle. Drone Cinema draws its inspiration …

The 32nd annual Seattle Improvised Music Festival takes place on Feb. 2, 3, and 4 at the Good Shepherd Center Chapel, presented by Nonsequitur with support of a Neighborhood & Community Arts grant from City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Doors open at 7:30, music starts at 8 PM. Nearly all of this …

The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of sound artists coming together from diverse creative backgrounds to improvise with unprocessed field recordings. Always looking for new modes of presentation, this is their first concert improvising with other instrumentalists, including Tom Varner (French horn) and others TBA. Instead of the usual “wall of laptops” all plugged …