Seattle Scene: October 17-30, 2015

From Seattle’s Wayward Music Series:

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4th Floor, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle 98103 (corner N 50th St. in Wallingford)
Every month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded presenters and artists offer ten concerts of adventurous music in an informal yet respectful all-ages setting: contemporary classical, free improvisation, the outer limits of jazz, electronic music, microtonal/new instruments, sound art, and other extraordinary sonic experiences.

Seattle Modern Orchestra
Sat. October 17; 8 PM; $20, $10 student/senior

SMO opens its 2015-16 season with the premier of From Darkness to Luminosity, a commissioned work by Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia for pianist Cristina Valdés. Also on the program: Edgard Varèse’s Octandre (1928), Morton Feldman’s The Viola in My Life I (1970), featuring violist Melia Watras, and Julia Wolfe’s Singing in the dead of night (2008). Pre-concert discussion at 7:30 PM.

Fandrich + Seman/Ostrowski
Thu. October 22; 8 PM; $5 – $15 at the door

Monktail Creative Music Concern continues to celebrate fifteen years of bringing high-quality adventurous music to Seattle audiences. Tonight, Stephen Fandrich performs original music for gamelan, and John Seman and Mark Ostrowski play improvised solos and duets.

Earshot: Gary Stroutsos
Wed. October 21; 8 PM; $24, $22, $12 advance

Not a Wayward show, but of interest: Earshot Jazz Festival presents “world flute artist and cultural folklorist” Gary Stroutsos in an homage to his mentor and idol Paul Horn and his classic 1960s album Inside, recorded in the Taj Mahal. Best known for his work on the Native American flute, Stroutsos combines sounds and traditions found in American Indian music, Chinese, Cuban, and jazz stylings.

Earshot: Reid/Mitchell/Reed
Fri. October 23; 8 PM; $5 – $15 advance/door

Nonsequitur & Earshot Jazz Festival present three key figures of the new generation of Chicago’s AACM collective: versatile cellist Tomeka Reid, adventurous flutist Nicole Mitchell, and drummer Mike Reed, “a center of gravity for music in Chicago (and beyond).”

TUE. 10/27 – Earshot Jazz Festival presents Nate Wooley (trumpet) and Paul Lytton (percussion)

THU. 10/29 – Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra

FRI. 10/30 – Nonsequitur presents a Japanese/American quartet of electroacoustic improvisers: Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar), Toshimaru Nakamura (electronics), Bryan Eubanks (soprano sax, electronics), Jason Kahn (percussion)