Wayward Music Series: SOUNDbox Curators Concert
Online: TBA | In person: $5-20 at the door
- Marina Albero, piano
- Carlos Snaider, guitar
- Leanna Keith, flute
- Heather Bentley, viola
Nonsequitur is pleased to start off 2022 with the introduction of SOUNDbox, a new artist-led curator series aimed at positively stimulating the local music scene with visionary and generative live performances.
For SOUNDbox, Nonsequitur hands over curation of our monthly concerts to a team of four celebrated local artists who will collectively program twelve events in the coming year. Pianist Marina Albero, polymath/writer and Seattle Star founder Omar Willey, guitarist Carlos Snaider, and flautist Leanna Keith will each curate three concerts apiece. All of them have a unique presence in the Seattle creative community, and bring a wealth of collective knowledge and experience to the project.
Tonight we kick off this new initiative with a concert by the curators themselves, joined by violist and new Nonseq board member Heather Bentley, for an evening of solo and group improvisations, celebrating the diversity of musical values and shared commitment to listening and spontaneous creation.
If you can’t attend in person, watch us streaming live on LoudSwell.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS: Following current mandates from King County & WA State public health officials, all audience members at this performance will be required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status. Additionally, chair seating will be arranged to maintain social distancing; people who live together may group chairs accordingly. Audience should be aware that performers will be unmasked, and some will be singing or playing wind instruments.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Carlos Snaider, guitar
About Leanna Keith, flute
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: "I didn't know the flute could do that!" Her performance artworks have focused on cultural connection and the breaking of audience/performer boundaries. Leanna is co-founder of the 501(c)(3) arts organization Kin of the Moon and is co-artistic director and flutist of the ensemble. They explore sonic rituals, promote cross-pollination of genres, and celebrate the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. She is dedicated to playing music by composers who are still living, and advocates for the usage of music as social activism. Leanna is the professor of flute at Cornish College of the Arts.
http://leannakeithflute.comAbout Heather Bentley, viola
Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coast's most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures. Relentless in her pursuit of creativity, she continues this work as co-founder of Kin of the Moon, a 501(c)3 organization which fosters collaboration between artists in service of creating unique art.
https://www.hbentleymusic.com/