Concerts

Vancouver-born award-winning pianist/composer Cat Toren leads Cat Toren’s HUMAN KIND, a dynamic Brooklyn-based quartet with Xavier Del Castillo (sax), Jake Leckie (bass), and Matt Honor (drums). Described by UK Vibe as “vibrant, earthy and spiritual”, this project is influenced by the free-form, socially conscious jazz of the late ’60s, reimagined for the modern day. The …

Patricia Wolf is a Portland-based musician, field recordist, and sound designer. Her work sonically unites the natural and synthetic world, integrating ecological sources into her minimalist compositions. Using melody and repetition she lures listeners to a hypnotic inner space, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres imbued with emotion. Wolf primarily works with electronics, field recordings, and …

For the last twenty years, Upstate New York-based composer M. Geddes Gengras has created worlds inside of machines, bending electronics into human shapes and working in spaces between ambient, improvisation, and experimental music to build works with deep feeling. He has released music with Hausu Mountain, Leaving Records/Stones Throw, and RVNG International, and collaborated onstage …

KO SOLO + Special GuestKO Quartet feat. Conner Eisenmenger, Tim Carey, Evan WoodleLive visuals by Brad Rouda and Steve Kennedy-Williams Kate Olson is an award-winning improviser, composer, bandleader and saxophonist living in Seattle. She teaches jazz and improvisation at Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Puget Sound, and she can frequently be heard performing with her …

Video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas are touring with stories they have collected over years of travel, including ones from just the other day, retelling them through miniature films and live music. These are audio/visual sneak peeks into otherwise unobserved events that are unfolding at the same time as ours, creating seconds- or minutes-long …