Seattle Noise

The week somehow got away from me yet again.

Noise Brunch

Wake up and butter your pancakes and waffles, then stick around to hear music from Vibe Sink (piezoelectric crystal bath), Changing Bodies (experimental synth movement), ACOMIP (experimental sounds), Glad We’re Together (noise weirdo), CFDC, and FR34KY9U9 (devotional drone).

Sunday, October 19, 12:00 PM at Fashion Week - Event Page

RHYTHMS: HYPERVERSARY

Celebrate HYPERboy’s first anniversary with us by revisiting our first show’s theme: parallels across disciplines. Let’s talk about the ritualistic process of art-making informed by our pattern-seeking minds. What can we learn from recurrence in art?

The show is donation based, with a $10-20 sliding scale, all proceeds for BRIDGE OF SOLIDARITY (funds from merch sold by artists do not reflect Hyperboy’s allocation of funds)

Participating artists include EKG, Forrest Friends. Oneseventhree, Kelly Langeslay & Knight Young, Sullivan Forderhase & Eric M Acosta, Alex Lee pLace, and Mason Webb.

Sunday, October 19, 5:00 PM at Jack Straw Cultural Center - Event Page

Katherine Van Bebber / Aluna / Future Rainbow Lazer

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Katherine Van Bebber will play. Joining them will be Aluna and Future Rainbow Lazer.

Thursday, October 23, 7:00 PM at Pine Box - Event Page

meatspace vol 5: Ice Orgy / Soursop Incantation / Sparky

Part of a series hosted by Seattle Noise and Noise Discord, we will present and stream the show. Ice Orgy (chaotic ambient), Soursop Incantations (vaporwave inspired harsh noise), and Sparky (radio ephemera soundscape)

Saturday, October 25, 7:30 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Scream Pool

The spookier version of Dream Pool hosted by Impact! Foundation will feature Baphomet Sex, Paintscratcher, Frrn (melodic ambient & dark drone), Kole Galbraith (noise), 9-5 Hyperfuck (digital hardcore), Halting (noise), Fountain Fountain Life Band (@sadie.siskin & @drone.ape, and Handmaiden.

Saturday, October 25, 8:00 PM at Kremwerk - Event Page

August / Troy / Tom Scully

August (experimental drone) from Portland will play along with Troy (ambient drone rock), and Tom Scully (guitar).

Saturday, October 25, 8:00 PM at Monkey Pub - Event Page

Stargazr / Aqua Celestia / Jose Bold & friends

Album release show for Stargazr (celestial soft grunge ensemble), along with support from Aqua Celestia, “The sounds of Aqua Celestia, of water and space, float through the air, evoking love, loss and longing in a place where angels are real and magic exists.”. Jose Bold (pop) & friends will also perform.

Saturday, October 25, 8:00 PM at Mosswood Loft - Event Page

Programming change. Although I still maintain a Google Calendar, I am now switching the Calendar page to a text list format. And if you are submitting an event, email is the most preferred.

Hidden Gateways / Tom Scully / Benjemaa / MONED

Hidden Gateways (ambient metal) will play with Tom Scully (guitar) and Benjemaa (experimental ambient) Late breaking performance from MONED (guitar noise).

Sunday, October 12, 7:00 PM at Bad Bar - Event Page

An evening of music : (no seam / in chaos) (382)

Solo performances from Steve Jansen (Arizona) and Luna Galassini (New Mexico). Closing music from the house band (Eric Lanzillotta, John Teske and Noel Kennon. Dave Knott will have a sound installation (…drip…) in the front room.

Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

I Can’t Trace Time & friends

Rescheduled, this event features Eric Amrine performing “Angles Are Singing”. I Can’t Trace Time (ambient soundscape and loop based) will feature Lance Watkins, with accompaniment by Casey Jones. Ecstatic Cosmic Union (cosmic drone music for cosmic people) and Sacred Signs (folk-drone soundscapes) will also perform.

Thursday, October 16, 7:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

New Artists Seattle mixer

Open call/mixer show for forming nonprofit, New Artists Seattle serving avant-garde artists in Seattle. In addition to performances from RN White, Sandesh Nagaraj, James Coffin, Tom Scully, Ryan Carrarher, Bad Luck, Forrest Friends, Dominique, Mary Sigward, Sarah Helen, Boudica, Sullivan Forderhase and more, the nonprofit is also seeking interested board members.

Friday, October 17, 7:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Dvstrr Media Core / Whitney Bashaw / Eric M Acosta / Sullivan Forderhase / Lukas Dickson

A night of experimental electronic, IDM, and noise. Featuring Dvstrr Media Core (IDM), Whitney Bashaw, Eric M Acosta, Sullivan Forderhase, and Lukas Dickson (noise).

Saturday, October 18, 5:00 PM at Beats n Cats Records (Bremerton) - Event Page

Forgotten Phantoms / Neil Welch / Doppler Tongue

Lithic Records release show for new album from Doppler Tongue (duo of electric guitar and double bass) from Spokane. Supporting them will be Forgotten Phantom (analog synths and field recordings) and Neil Welch (saxaphone). Saturday, October 18, 7:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Leandrul album release show

Release show for Leandrul, “Choose”:

Hello all! It’s Leandrul. I invite you to come to this collaborative concert for my latest work, ‘Choose’. I am grateful to perform with talented and dedicated visual artist: Accuraci, improvisational dance artist: Changing Bodies, my old friend and cellist: El, two incredible musicians: Huggy Pillow, who will be finger picking electric guitars, and the eloquent and inspiring orator: Professor Carl Livingston, on this night of song and wonder.

Saturday, October 18, 7:30 PM at Fremont Abbey - Event Page

An open invite noise music event co-hosted by Noise Discord and Seattle Noise.

The Noise Music Discord Server, “a vector point for discussion of harsh noise and adjacent genres” creates online community for artisan purveyors of harsh noise. You can join the Discord server here and follow harshnoise.online for updates. Stream the event by joining the the Discord server or watch live on YouTube.

Noise Music is a Discord server created by Scarlet Death in 2017.

Ice Orgy ( chaotic ambient )

-- https://iceorgy.bandcamp.com/

Soursop Incantations ( vaporwave inspired harsh noise )

-- https://www.instagram.com/soursop_music_label/

Sparky ( radio ephemera soundscape )

-- https://sparkysounds.bandcamp.com/

$10 suggested donation

doors at 7:30 PM, noise at 8:00 PM

no alcohol

RSVP here

Facebook Event Page

Yes, do send. A new release Pillen from thruoutin entered my inbox recently. This release is a live recording from a performance made in 2024 at Pillbox in Beijing.

We’ll take a break from the events to feature their release, a noisier ambient escape into something both soothing but at the same time equally abrasive. There’s an arc and a narrative. Side B pairs much more harsh echoes from bass guitar sounds against the slower ambient tones, which draws me in more than Side A.

thruoutin is a project from Beijng based Brad Seippel, DJ, musician, producer, and runs a studio. Check out some of his other releases featuring field recordings and more electronic and acoustic, less noisier sounds.

Back to the regularly scheduled post. Out of town last week before the rain returned. Time to cozy up inside.

Noise Brunch

Free food and noise featuring Zooon (harsh cello), Kole Galbraith (noise), rEEk (noise), Thee Effluvium (experimental noise), Itai Anker (industrial textures), Alder Meadow, and a DJ set from Desejo.

Sunday, October 5, 12:00 PM at Fashion Week - Event Page

poetry lab: Cass Garison

poetry lab is a series by Eric M Acosta as part of unpoetry. Instead of a group show with multiple perfomers, poetry lab presents a single performer or group followed with a small interview. This edition features Cass Garison (poetry).

Wednesday, October 8, 8:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

Possibilities Expo

Two days of experimental music at the old steam plant. Friday will feature: Frontera Dogs, Trash Panda Go Kart, 600 Salad Bowls, Sue Ann Harkey, Steve Fisk (with Greg Milmore, Leo Mayberry, and Brodie Stevens), and Arrington de Dionyso. Saturday will feature Ukefoote, Steve Fisk, the Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra, Rob Angus, John Massoni with Jonathan Marlow, Student Nurse, and Metal Men.

Friday, October 10 and Saturday October 11, 6:00 PM at Georgetown Steam Plant - Event Page

Toothfest

House show with BlueJao (noise), RN White (experimental), SPLASTEEN (live modular noise), Outside Voices, Forrest Friends (weirdo cave-junk vibes. creep-jammers.), Planar Drift (electronic), Sophia O (noise), and Bottle Meat (noise).

Saturday, October 11, 5:00 PM at Casa Dentata - Event Page

Soft as Snow / God Tongue / Expressway

Soft as Snow (experimental pop) from Berlin, “Oda Starheim and Øystein Monsen have developed a mercurial and genre-curious style, fusing analog and digital textures and wavering between production fidelities while touching on strains of art pop, electronica, and trip hop” will play along with God Tongue (techno industrial), and Expressway (ambient).

Saturday, October 11, 7:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

MYKAWARA / Kole Galbraith / sonora enjambre

Erica Dawn Lyle and Marshall Trammell will perform as the duo MYKAWARA, joined by Kole Galbraith (noise), and sonora enjambre (power ambient).

Saturday, October 11, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

We have something for all directions and neighborhoods this week.

Noise Brunch

Riki Healing will perform a DJ set, along with Shelter from Olympia, Mattdan from Portland, and Trembles. Brunch will be served before the music starts.

Sunday, September 21, 12:00 PM at Fashion Week - Event Page

Eight Bells / Geist & the Sacred Ensemble

Experimental metal band Eight Bells is going on a mini tour. For this performance, Joy Von Spain will also perform with them. Geist & the Sacred Ensemble (doom folk psychedelic) will also play.

Wednesday, September 24, 8:00 PM at Baba Yaga - Event Page

Esoteric Everett: Zooon / SPITRAT / Edward Cullen

The monthly noise show in a coffee shop presented by AnaRchYinBedRoK will feature SPITRAT (no input sound), Zooon (harsh cello), and Edward Cullen. Visuals by PisTils.

Saturday, September 27, 6:00 PM at Artisans Books & Coffee (Everett) - Event Page

SH!TOMATO / Style King of the Week / The Vardaman Ensemble / Hidden Gateways

SH!TOMATO (noise) will play with Style King of the Week (electronic post-rock), The Vardaman Ensemble (experimental jazz), and Hidden Gateways (ambient metal).

Saturday, September 27, 7:00 PM at Mudlark Oddities - Event Page

Max Nordile / Skunk Ape Ensemble / Ryan Ebaugh

Ryan Ebaugh (free improv jazz) from San Diego will perform along with Max Nordile (human music) and the Skunk Ape Ensemble.

Saturday, September 27, 7:30 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Lukas Dickson / CZ / A.F. Jones

Take the ferry to Bremerton for a free show at a record store featuring Lukas Dickson (noise), CZ (harsh noise), and A.F. Jones (noise concrète).

Saturday, September 27, 6:30 PM at Bigfoot’s House of Vinyl (Bremerton) - Event Page

BOYSUGARPOETRY

Proceeds go to support Grand Illusion Cinema, featuring Ladywolf, Sarah Meltzer, Hyperboy, sullivan forderhase, Eric M Acosta, Changing Bodies, and Formal Weather Patterns.

Sunday, September 14, 7:00 PM at Mudlark Oddities - Event Page

Modular Nights

The monthly free showcase of experimental electronic music will feature: Synthiak, VEA, ybot, expressway, cnicoll, and Hans Anderson.

Sunday, September 14, 5:00 PM at Substation - Event Page

Solitudes: Seattle - Skerik / Bill Horist / Charmaine Lee

Solitudes: Seattle brings together three leading experimental musicians for an evening of uncompromising solo performance at Vermillion, Capitol Hill’s art gallery and music space. Vocalist Charmaine Lee, saxophonist Skerik, and guitarist Bill Horist each explore sound in raw, unexpected, and deeply personal ways—ranging from extended voice to boundary-defying saxophone and immersive guitar textures.

Tuesday, September 16, 8:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

Blank Hellscape / RN White / EKG / Forrest Friends

Coming out from Austin, Blank Hellscape (industrial noise). They will be supported by RN White (experimental), EKG (party noise), and Forrest Friends (weirdo cave-junk vibes. creep-jammers.).

Thursday, September 18, 8:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

unpoetry

Join us for an evening of artistic performances responding to Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular with poet and event organizer Eric M. Acosta, along with M Freeman, Sophie Chin, Rodrigo Sanchez, and Fox Whitney. Using ekphrasis, a detailed response to a work of art, participants will explore the bonds that exist between various art forms.

Thursday, September 18, 6:30 PM at Frye Art Museum - Event Page

XEK / miloisntreal / Tekfro / hecklifter / Normal Cory

A night of hardware electronic music with proceeds going to support New Beginnings supporting domestic violence survivors. Music performances from XEK, miloisntreal, hecklifter, Tekfro, and Normal Cory.

Thursday, September 18, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

NonSeq: M. Geddes Gengras + Cindy Reichel

Curated by Chloe Harris for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series. M. Geddes Gengras from Upstate New York, “has become enamored with antiquated MIDI playback devices, and will be presenting new works that blend this obsession with his trademark sonic atmospheres. Supporting them will be Cindy Reichel, who “will explore the shadowed edge of ambience, weaving haunting drones, ghostly harmonics, and cinematic textures into an enveloping soundscape. With each note drifting and evolving like light over black water, the audience will be pulled into a world both unsettling and achingly beautiful.

Friday, September 19, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

Headwound / Moth Sanctuary / Mcknelly / Ecstasy Jones / Contrabusca / Juno The Beloved

Continuing with a hardware electronic music, Headwound, Moth Sanctuary (hardcore organic) from Denver, Mcknelly, Ecstasy Jones, Contrabusca, and Juno The Beloved

Noisy, ambient, experimental, scary hardware music. Words can’t adequately describe what to expect so come hear for yourself 💣

Friday, September 19, 9:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

Troy / Power Strip / Polt.

Troy (ambient drone rock) will perform with Power Strip (electronic ambient synth pop), and Polt. (experimental).

Friday, September 19, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

meatspace vol 4: Machine Oil / gorelizard x ophelia nyx / Parser Terror

In collaboration with the Noise Music Discord Server, we will be live streaming this event. Featuring Machine Oil (drone industrial noise), visiting from Portland, gorelizard x ophelia nyx from (Portland, OR), presenting “A playful, puppy-eyed world slowly shifts between comfort and horror, guiding the viewer through evolving shapes and landscapes. The result is a raw and immersive atmosphere that balances warmth, strangeness, and emotional weight.” Parser Terror (modular experimental noise) will also perform.

Saturday, September 20, 7:30 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Noise Brunch

Third in the series, this edition will feature unnunnd (elusivespheric ambient music), Outside Voices, delicate/desolate (death industrial) from Yakima, Lilac Magic (dreamy neo-psychedelia), Spines from Portland, and UAP.

Sunday, September 7, 12:00 PM at Fashion Week - Event Page

Orcutt Shelley Miller / Diminished Men

Avant-rock trio Orcutt Shelley Miller includes Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire). They will be joined by Diminished Men (deviant noir), another trio with Steve Schmitt, Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Wally Shoup) and Simon Henneman.

Wednesday, September 10, 7:00 PM at Tractor Tavern - Event Page

Other / Sony Voodoo / Fetters / Pavor Nocturnus

Rescheduled album release show for Other (dark ambient). Supporting them will be Fetters (death industrial), along with performances from Sony Voodoo (performance art), and a DJ set by Pavor Nocturnus.

Friday, September 12, 7:00 PM at The Mountain Room - Event Page

SPAM New Medial Festival

Approaching its third iteration, the yearly festival consists of a program of installations, performances, workshops and discussions, which have taken place at various art venues in Seattle. Festival events sit at the intersection of algorithmic art, moving image, immersive art, data-driven installations, robotics and more, and showcase experimental and novel ways to critically engage with a technologically mediated world. We look not only to create discourse around the intersection of art and technology, but ask how this crossover might raise important questions in regards to socio-political and ecological relations.

The event is free, but the organizers request you reserve your time slot ahead of time. Music performances include: Afroditi Psarra & Maria Thraen, Alemseged Bishu, BAKUDI SCREAM, Charles Peoples III, Marcin Pączkowski, Maria Thrän, Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera, St Celfer, Style King of the Week.

Friday, September 12 - Sunday, September 14, 5:00 PM at Georgetown Steam Plant - Event Page

Skerik + visuals by Blazinspace

Seattle saxophonist and electronic artist Skerik will be performing live with his multi-effect set up with visual artist Blazinspace. An immersive sonic and visual experience using extensive electronic effects on the saxophone while Blazinspace fills the Chapel with multiple screens and projections.

Saturday, September 13, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

SPITRAT / Lukas Dickson / suncloud0

Come over and ride the ferry and see SPITRAT (no input sound), Lukas Dickson (noise), and suncloud0 (party noise)

Thursday, September 4, 8:00 PM at The Charleston (Bremerton) - Event Page

NonSeq: Kate Olson

Curated as part of the NonSeq series by Noel Brass Jr, this evening will feature Kate Olson and a variety of guests including: Conner Eisenmenger, Tim Carey, Evan Woodle, live visuals by Steve Kennedy-Williams, and spoken texts by Omar Willey.

Thursday, September 4, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

Dwelling Unit / Wornoutjoy / Hurry up, Snufkin / ivy sinthetic

Coming up from Portland, Dwelling Unit (noise punk) and Wornoutjoy (shoegaze/breakcore) from Eugene, they will be joined by local support from Hurry up Snufkin (chiptune math rock), and ivy sinthetic (electronic noise pop).

Friday, September 5, 8:00 PM at Drongo Tapes HQ - Event Page

Olivia Camfield / Woodrow Hunt / Faustian Headwound / Body of Eyes

Olivia Camfield “is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in the Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection of dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism.” Woodrow Hunt from Portland “is a Cherokee, Klamath, and Modoc Tribes descendent, who founded Tule Films in May of 2017.” They will be joined by Faustian Headwound, a “doom string quartet linking PNW and Germanic sonic influences to live by.” Body of Eyes (collaboration between Changing Bodies and Tarsier Eyes) will also perform.

Friday, September 5, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

Unity Garnish / Uriel / Flesh Produce

Also coming up from Portland, Unity Garnish will play with Uriel (electronic ambient). Flesh Produce (digital hiphop) will also perform.

Friday, September 5, 8:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

Wornoutjoy / Artificial Heat / Dwelling Unit / Combing

Second Seattle show for Wornoutjoy (shoegaze/breakcore) and Dwelling Unit (noise punk) with Artificial Heat (post-punk), and Combing (shoegaze).

Saturday, September 6, 8:00 PM at Belltown Yacht Club - Event Page

Zona’s Farewell Show

Big show that starts early and ends late. Featuring Enemy Zero (extreme theatre of the senses), EKG (party noise), Coyote Teeth (doom experimental drone noise), nilc (gentle chaos), N0 PASSAGE, Bad Noise Bears (special collaboration between PRISONFOOD and new chlorine), TAXXESS (rejectionist ambient) from Texas, and Phantasy Girl.

Saturday, September 6, 6:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

ORQID + RAICA + (m)ORPH

Each artist for the evening employs technology and synthesizers in unique ways, spinning spells of ambience punctuated by the occasional electronic beat and sample clip including improvisations in virtual reality spaces.

If you’re in the mood for something more chill less noise, ORQID (experimental electronic ambient), RAICA (electronic), and Kasson Crooker presenting (m)ORPH, “an immersive experience both to performer and audience as he utilizes virtual reality spaces to compose and perform, bringing the audience into his world through video projectors and the sound reinforcement system.” Visuals by Nick Bigelow.

Saturday, September 6, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

A little more electronic music focused over noise this week.

Noise Brunch

Second in the Noise Brunch series, this one will feature SPLASTEEN (live modular noise), Fantasy A (hip hop), Trevor and Vo Vo from Portland, Trigger Object (experimental electronic), Trembles from Portland, Till the Teeth (experimental noise rock), and Protect Me (experimental hiphop) from Los Angeles.

Sunday, August 24, 11:00 AM at Fashion Week - Event Page

Protect Me / Fantasy A / Monocot.zip / DJ Goop

Catch Protect Me again on the same day with Fantasy A (hip hop), Monocot.zip (hardware electronic music), and DJ Goop.

Sunday, August 24, 7:00 PM at Bad Bar - Event Page

Wreck and Reference / Izthmi / Laser Beam / Kole Galbraith + CIGVË

Visiting from Los Angeles, Wreck and Reference (noise rock) will play in an antique shop with Izthmi (black doom metal), Laser Beam (dejected fuzz sounds noise rock), and a duo noise performance from Kole Galbraith and CIGVË

Sunday, August 24, 7:00 PM at Mudlark Oddities - Event Page

Modbang

The monthly free showcase of all hardware electronic music will feature Blaix, DNcrystal, EZBOT, Nil Elses, and Pineapple.io.

Tuesday, August 26, 7:00 PM at The 4Bs - Event Page

Fedback Quartet

Group performance with Salma Zenia (violin), Kole Galbraith, Noel Kennon, and Lori Goldston. Lori will also perform a solo set.

Thursday, August 28, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

Quaad / Herr Shield / Desdemon Club / Project 32 / Planar Drift

Continuing with the focus on electronic modular nights, you’ll have to the chance to listen to the artists through DJ Quaad’s soundsystem. No need to stand under a bridge. Herr Shield, Desdemon Club, Project 32, and Planar Drift.

Friday, August 29, 8:00 PM at The Mountain Room - Event Page

Tom Scully / Jeff Brown / The Floorist / BodyCatchers / AnarchyInBedRoK

Noise in a bookstore in Everett. Featuring Tom Scully, Jeff Brown, The Floorist (experimental drum & bass), BodyCatchers (electronic), and AnarachyInBedRoK (noise).

Saturday, August 30, 6:00 PM at Artisans Books & Coffee (Everett) - Event Page