NonSeq: Sean Meehan + tondiue
$5-$15 donation, advance or at the door
- Sean Meehan, drums
- Cameron Kelley (tondiue), DJ
- Sue Ann Harkey, guitar
- Lori Goldston, cello
Drummer Sean Meehan (NYC) plays a solo set with snare drum and cymbals using a range of idiosyncratic and temperamental techniques, often at the mercy of the instrument and room, but ideally some control (composition) will be evident.
For his set, Cameron Kelley (AKA tondiue) will be joined by two revered veterans of the Seattle experimental community: Sue Ann Harkey and Lori Goldston.
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 Sean Meehan, drums
Drummer Sean Meehan (NYC) began performing during the late 1980s, presenting his increasingly refined and reductive approach to the drum set at small, informal spaces and artist-run festivals as well as more prestigious venues. For nearly twenty years he and Tamio Shiraishi presented their summer concert series, always in different interstitial locations throughout New York City. Three of these concerts have been documented on LP on the Fusetron and GD Stereo labels.
Meehan’s most recent projects include a highly abridged audiobook of Hermann von Helmholtz's seminal text from 1863, On the Sensations of Tone (2017), and Magazine (Sacred Realism, 2022), a piece for solo cowbell. He was featured in a recent issue of the music journal Sound American.
Seattle remains an important place for Meehan as many of his most treasured and enduring friendships and musical partnerships formed here.
https://www.mee-han.com/About Sue Ann Harkey, guitar
Sue Ann Harkey has been a part of Seattle and New York's underground music and visual arts scenes for decades. Her work, which has been referred to as "futurist folk," blends philosophical and political lyrics with improvised music inspired by free jazz, electronic, folk, and Middle Eastern, and African elements. Harkey discovered improvisational music’s power in 1979, when she began playing guitar with friends; this led to her exploration of the harp-guitar and the 12-string guitar, which she played with mallets, bows, plectrums, and rods, and which also featured alternate tunings and metal discs woven between the strings. By 1980, Harkey formed the cassette label/political pamphlet distributor Cityzens for Non-Linear Futures (CNLF) and the improv group Audio Letter.
https://sueannharkey.bandcamp.com/About Lori Goldston, cello
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung approaches and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument, driven by a restless curiosity and informed by a long, widely varied history of collaborations with bands, ensembles large and small, composers, film makers and choreographers. She performs throughout the US and abroad, and has released recordings on Sub Rosa, Woodland Fauna, Marginal Frequency, Yo Yo, K Records, Second Editions, Sub Pop, Mississippi, Eiderdown, Substrata, State 51, Ed Banger, Full Spectrum, PIAPTK, SofaBurn, Broken Clover, and No Sun.
https://www.lorigoldston.com/