Wayward Music Series: Gishiki + Dahliia – Quadraphonic Modular Synth & Koto

Doors at 7:30
DAHLIIA @ 8pm
GISHIKI @ 9pm

Presented in Quadraphonic Surround Sound

儀式 GISHIKI ~ An electro-acoustic recital featuring Japanese koto & modular synth. For the past three decades, Seattle-based Kasson Crooker has been composing & performing eclectic electronic music with his bands Symbion Project, Freezepop, & ELYXR. While searching for a new instrument to inspire his compositions, he became enamored with the Japanese koto, a traditional 13-stringed harp. Looking to create a unique live performance, Kasson fused electronic elements (vintage synthesizers, field recordings, sound design) with koto processed extensively though modular DSP effects to create a lush, atmospheric electro-acoustic experience. To maximize the sonic immersion of this performance, 儀式 Gishiki (ritual, ceremony) is presented in quadraphonic 4-channel sound with both the performer and audience inside the surround sound-field.

Coming together to perform for the first time ever after over 20 years of friendship and making music independently, Tom Butcher (ORQID, CODEBASE, HEATSYNC) and Cindy Reichel (EXPERT SYSTEM, ROTOR) founded Seattle-based synthesizer outfit PATCHWERKS in 2015. DAHLIIA explores the worlds of undulating, layered arpeggiated synth bleeps drenched in effects, melodic drone tones in sound-on-sound sediment, and percussive so-called “clicks and cuts” to create an enveloping environment rooted in emotion.

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.