Wayward Music Series: Heather Bentley & Friends – Two Games
$5-$15 donation
Heather Bentley, viola
Dio Jean-Baptiste, drums
Jim Knodle, trumpet
Michele Khazak, voice
Carol Levin, harp
Violist/improviser Heather Bentley is joined by drummer Dio Jean-Baptiste; with a second set including trumpeter Jim Knodle, vocalist Michele Khazak, and harpist Carol Levin for two improvised musical games.
Two Games:
1. Heather/Dio Duo
Q. What’s the difference between a viola and a drum?
A. We are looking into it…
2. Canticle Stew:
Jim Knodle, trumpet, Timelord
Heather Bentley, viola, Philosopher Queen
Michele Khazak, vocals, High Priestess and Arbiter of Words
Carol Levin, Ambassador to the Celestial Sphere
…with audience-suggested lyrics…
Canticle Stew is a three part musical game wherein:
1. The esteemed Timelord Jim Knodle demands an exacting relationship to the passage of time;
2. High Priestess and Arbiter of Words Michele Khazak might deign to sing favorite words submitted from those gathered…or not; and
3. Ambassador to the Celestial Sphere Carol Levin will exert some fixed pitch-ness upon the proceedings in an attempt to evoke the universality of the harmonic cosmos.
Philosopher Queen Heather Bentley will exercise a modicum of benign sovereignty over the events that unfold, if possible.
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
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/