Vibhuti Kavishwar has been learning music since the early age of 5. Her father, Late Shri Lakshman Chausalkar, was her first guru and a great composer. She is currently taking vocal lessons from Srivani Jade in Seattle. Vibhuti runs her own music institute, Swarsadhana School of Music, where she teaches both kids and adults. Her […]
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So’le Celestial (they/them) is a Trans Non-Binary, Queer, and Gela’ CHamoru multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, performer, and producer. Born and raised on Guahån in the Mariana Islands, So’le moved to the Puget Sound Salish area in 2013 with their family. Their work honors the existence and sacredness of Indigenous CHamoru and Trans Non-Binary, Queer, and […]
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Michael Hamm is a Seattle-based composer focused on stories that invite a homecoming to the body and a curiosity about the natural world. He has worked in collaboration with musicians, science educators, poets, filmmakers, and stage artists to produce shows that blend myth and science. In 2019, Mike’s electroacoustic ensemble Cosmozoa created a full-length album […]
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Nada Rosa is an otherworldly audio/visual experience and band led by artist, filmmaker, and performer, Brandi Diaz. A blend of psychedelic rock and soul that takes roots in latin rhythms, ’60s-inspired garage, and surf, Nada Rosa delivers a spiritual and interdisciplinary dreamscape that fuses elements of ecstatic dance during performances to bring sonic layers to […]
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MANtrio is an improvising trio with Sage Romey (piano), Sarah Yates (bass) and Melanie Sehman (drums/percussion) that uses the standard trio format as a laboratory for exploration, performing improvised music and original creative work. With radical listening as a guiding principle, their work breaks down conventional stylistic barriers and ensemble roles, blurring the line between […]
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LaVon Hardison is a singer/songwriter, artist, and general creative and sings jazz standards, originals, and her own eclectic and compelling arrangements of popular songs. Originally hailing from Boston, she has found a musical and creative community in the Northwest. Equally at home at jazz clubs, corporate events, private parties, and sacred settings, LaVon uses her […]
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Alex Guy is a Seattle-based violinist, violist, singer and composer, and is the leader and principal songwriter of Led To Sea, a magnetic trio that fuses classical, pop and experimental music. Alex has also composed extensively for dance, film and theater, and has performed and collaborated with many notable bandleaders, composers, improvisers and musicians in the Pacific NW and beyond, […]
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Murphy Janssen is a recent graduate from UW with an M.M. in Jazz and Improvised music (‘21). With an emphasis on composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustic music in his own work, he looks to pull from and build on the rich traditions of American Jazz, European experimental/electronic and Orchestral/Concert Percussion musics. Murphy has studied under the […]
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Barry Olusegun-Noble Despenza is an interdisciplinary artist whose work builds with and combines archival footage, AI generated imagery, and electronic music composition. Using musical thinking, Despenza’s work illuminates the dynamic and unconscious rhythms of power structures that underlie the perception of time and space. Recent international exhibitions include the Audain Gallery in Vancouver, the CICA […]
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Wei Yang is a composer/sound artist from China. He works with different mediums, through which he often contemplates the body’s role in sound production, sound in space, as well as the integration of various data from the performance environment (reverberation, light, etc.). Wei composes both instrumental and electronic music, and builds performative systems that allow […]
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