Source: Trinosophes.

Friday, Dec. 13: Lossy Codecs, Benjamin Miller solo

In place of his scheduled large ensemble, Ben Miller moves to the opposite extreme and performa a set of his experimental works for solo guitar. A veteran of some of Michigan’s most interesting bands of the past five decades, he has performed in Sproton Layer, Empool, Destroy All Monsters (middle period) and various other art-rock and experimental music groups. Since returning to Michigan a few years ago, he has revived some of his older groups and created some new ones as well. His solo sets are just as compelling as the group projects, so we aren’t disappointed with the change of format.

Lossy Codecs is a group organized by brass player Derek Worthington. In this iteration, he has assembled a more compact version of the group, which features a collection of peers who are no strangers to the Trinosophes stage:

Derek Worthington, compositions and direction
Zara Teicher, horn
Kirsten Carey, guitar
Kaleigh Wilder, baritone sax
Ben Willis, bass

Doors at 8 pm; $8

Sunday, Dec. 15: Xylouris White

Xylouris White performs original and traditional compositions firmly rooted in the music of Crete. Georgios Xylouris is major figure of contemporary Greek and Cretan music, a vocalist and performer on the Cretan laouto (think of a bass-range bouzouki). Well-known and beloved by Cretans and Greeks at home and abroad, he has has been playing professionally from age 12. Australian drummer Jim White is one of the most exciting drummers in rock music, best known as a member of Dirty Three and for his work with Venom P Stinger, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bill Callahan, Cat Power etc. For the last five years these two men have been performing as Xylouris White, the culmination of 25 years of friendship forged through music and place.

Opening the show is Matthew Smith in a solo guitar/vocal set, playing songs from the forthcoming debut album by MATTHEW SMITH GROUP, as well as songs from his previous group Outrageous Cherry.
Doors at 8 pm; $10.

COMING SOON

Friday, Dec. 20: Earl Davis

COMING IN 2020

Lea Bertucci and Saariselka, The Blackman Revue, Sessa, Jonah Parzan-Johnson, Illegal Crowns (Bynum, Halvorson, Fujiwara, Delbecq)

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.

High Right Now
Wed. Dec. 11, 8 PM; $5 – $20 advance/at door

Hypnotic jams for the discerning listener, High Right Now features the programmatic, minimalist music of composers Brian Lawlor and Benjamin Marx. Lawlor is known locally for his musical work with theater artists Saint Genet and Marx for work with durational choreographer Alice Gosti, among others. A supergroup of local players will perform a seamless evening of their work in an otherworldly, ritualistic environment.

Guitar Cult + Crystal Beth +
Kathy Moore
Thu. Dec. 12, 8 PM; $5 – $15 at the door

Three multi-faceted artists draw equally on mainstream and outside, giving birth to the new: Kathy Moore is a go-to guitarist ranging from rock to funk to jazz and beyond. Guitars have mass and volume in Ben McAllister’s compositions for Guitar Cult. Crystal Beth uses wailing vocals, amplified clarinet, beat-boxing and electronics to weave a sonic universe all her own.

Noel Kennon
Fri. Dec. 13, 8 PM; $5 – $15 at the door

An evening of sustained sounds and silence over long durations. dreams of willows and thresholds for viola and double bass uses the harmonic series as a foundational element of its structure. The music is concerned with implementing rational structures that correspond to actual phenomenon found (observed) in natural (actual) sounds in search for new (lost) shapes, places, and resonant fluctuations that are often overlooked.

Neal Kosaly-Meyer: Finnegans Wake
Sat. Dec. 14, 7:30 PM; $5 – $15 at the door

Composer Neal Kosaly-Meyer’s ongoing Finnegans Wake project is an unprecedented undertaking: to commit to memory and perform all of James Joyce’s final novel, one chapter per year over seventeen years, with acute attention to the work’s musical detail. The final installment in 2019’s is also this year’s premiere, Part I, Chapter 6. Joyce described Chapter 6 as a picture gallery of the novel’s characters.

Thu. 12/19 – Clarinetist Lu Evers presents a performance piece centered around a poetry reading format, with reader Jo Anderson and pianist Keith Eisenbrey.