Coming to Seattle

Source: Wayward Music Series.

Seattle Guitar Circle: Simple Songs
Wed. July 5, 8 PM; $5 – $20 donation at door

Eight-piece acoustic guitar orchestra performs arrangements of Charles Ives, Chick Corea, Erik Satie, Hanai Rani, John Coltrane, Jon Brion, Jonny Greenwood, Leo Brouwer, Meredith Monk, Robert Fripp, Ryuichi Sakamoto – as well as new work from composers within the core SGC team.

Silica Gel / Jr. Mint Prince / August /
Ornament & Crime
Wed. July 12, 8 PM; $5 – $15 donation at door

Silica Gel adapts medieval texts into lush noise ballad. Jr. Mint Prince draws from freak folk, free improv, spoken word, computer music, and performance art. August mixes hypnotic folk, ambient, drone, noise, free improv, and colorful doom. Ornament & Crime is percussion noise.

Subvector Colloquy
Thu. July 13, 8 PM; $5 – $20 donation at door

Wielding electric twang machine (Tom Baker), dynamically modulated crossblows (Leanna Keith), Italian battle zither (Keith Eisenbrey), and the fearsome 3-button gargle tube (Jim Knodle), these four wizards return with freshly unimagined thaumaturgical delights: spells, incantations, enchantments – perhaps even a cryptid or two.

Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake
Sat. July 15, 8 PM; $10 – $20 donation at door

Since 2013, composer Neal Kosaly-Meyer has been learning and performing from memory, with acute attention to musical detail, the chapters of James Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. Part I, Chapter 7, also known as “Shem the Penman,” is a surreal self-portrait of the artist, and also of the process of the making of Finnegans Wake itself.