Concerts

Ambient music pioneer Robert Rich performs in support of his new album, Ylang, using live electronics with analog modular synthesizer, keyboards and computer, along with his signature handmade flutes and steel guitar to create a hypnotic, atmospheric blend of composition and improvisation. Robert Rich began building his own analog synthesizers when he was 13 years …

Dana Reason is a leading figure in the new generation of pianists who are equally comfortable on both the jazz and classical concert stages. Born in Toronto, she began studying piano at age three. She was a member of The Space Between, with Pauline Oliveros (accordion) and Philip Gelb (shakuhachi). She has worked with bassists …

Jessika Kenney is well known to Seattle audiences as a long-time member of Gamelan Pacifica and Seattle Harmonic Voices. For this concert she performs with violist Eyvind Kang, Iranian tar player and vocalist Parvaneh Daneshvar, and jazz pianist Dawn Clement to play original poly-modal compositions and improvisations with a spirituo-linguistic relationship to Classical Persian poetry. …

Presented by Nonsequitur & Seattle Occultural Music. Los Angeles vocalist Anna Homler sings in alternative languages that extend the possibilities of meaning and communication with a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, blurring the line between words and music. Tonight she is joined by some of Seattle’s finest experimental musicians: Amy Denio, Lori Goldston, …

Shelley Hirsch is an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist whose work encompasses story telling, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radio plays. Among other things, she’ll be singing over electronic “song drapes” composed for her by the late, great Jerry Hunt. Born and based in New York City, Shelley Hirsch …