Wayward Music Series: HedgeWitch
$5-$20 donation at the door
- Heather Bentley, cello
- Leanna Keith, taiko, flute, & voice
- Haruko Crow Nishimura, dance, drums, & voice
Since 2023, improvising artists Heather Bentley, Leanna Keith, and Haruko Crow Nishimura have been meeting regularly to work with Time, Matter, and Questions about the nature of process, ritual, female empowerment, playfulness, movement, invisible connection, and the intersection of movement and sound. Crow, (Director of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), pairs her singular dance output with drumming and vocals. Leanna (Kin of the Moon) brings her taiko and martial arts practice together with her exquisite flute playing and unique voice. Heather (Kin of the Moon) plays cello and brings prompts and questions to the ensemble's explorations (as does each member). Influences range from ancient pentatonic flute melodies to percussion-driven rituals to Schoenberg and his Pierrot Lunaire moon worship. This evening marks the first public invitation into this practice that the three artists have come to cherish.
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 Heather Bentley, cello
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/About Leanna Keith, taiko, flute, & voice
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.com