Seattle Noise

Modular Nights

The monthly free showcase of experimental electronic music will feature:

Dadbaud, 2N3904, Demetrius Patin, Dosenöffner, and damikhz

Sunday, November 9, 5:00 PM at Substation - Event Page

Nat Evans & John Teske

Composers Nat Evans and John Teske present an evening of music, joined by acclaimed cellist Lori Goldston. Landscape and a sense of place are recurring themes in the composers’ work, including scores that resemble maps and field recordings that echo a forest in transition. Warm Buchla‑synth tones, long bass drones, and Goldston’s singular cello voice invite listeners to access the landscape within, an embodied sound experience. The program unfolds as a single, continuous piece — a series of movements by Teske and Evans woven together.

Thursday, November 13, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

Mind Beams / Moon Letters / National Diet

Mind Beams (swirling genre breaking heavy), Moon Letters (prog), and National Diet (prog) from Portland.

Friday, November 14, 8:00 PM at The Kraken Bar & Lounge - Event Page

Friends of the Road / Free Water Shrew Ensemble / Burial Cake

Tape split release show with Friends of the Road and Free Water Shrew Ensemble (free drone). They will be joined by Burial Cake (drone).

Friday, November 14, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page

Authentic Luxury / Bering Sea / Sheenjak / Worldwide Levitation

Authentic Luxury (free jazz post-modern rock) will play with Bering Sea (post-hardcore), Sheenjak from Portland, and Worldwide Levitation (noise rock from outer space).

Friday, November 14, 8:00 PM at Blue Moon Tavern - Event Page

meatspace vol 6: Ephemeral Eyes / Violet Inbound / SPLASTEEN x nilc

Last edition for meatspace for 2025 while we take a bit of break for winter. This one will feature Ephemeral Eyes (depressive ambient dream pop), Violet Inbound (ambient experimental), and SPLASTEEN x nilc (gentle chaos meets live modular noise)–

Saturday, November 15, 7:30 PM at Gallery 1412 - 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.

Ephemeral Eyes ( depressive ambient dream pop )

-- https://ephemeyes.bandcamp.com/

Violet Inbound ( ambient experimental )

-- https://violetinbound.net/
-- https://soundcloud.com/violetinbound

SPLASTEEN x nilc ( gentle chaos meets live modular noise )

-- https://splasteen.bandcamp.com/
-- https://soundcloud.com/nilc

$10 suggested donation

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

no alcohol

RSVP here

Facebook Event Page

Noise Brunch

The final installment of the Noise Brunch series will feature RN White (experimental), Forrest Friends (weirdo cave-junk vibes. creep-jammers.), and Sullivan Forderhase, along with an open mic.

Sunday, November 2, 12:00 PM at Fashion Week - Event Page

Electric Blue: J. Watt / B. Alcalá Roth

Solo ambient/experimental set from J. Watt along with B. Alcalá Roth (experimental eletronic).

Monday, November 3, 8:00 PM at Black Lodge - Event Page

Jon Mueller / Lori Goldston + Noel Kennon + Kole Galbraith / Blessed Blood

“A sound and visual meditation with Jon Mueller:

Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky’s photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.

Joing them will be a trio performance from Lori Goldston, Noel Kennon, and Kole Galbraith, along with Blessed Blood (experimental electronic drone).

Tuesday, November 4, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

poetry lab: Tshedzom

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 Tshedzom, a Tibetan-American artist who specializes in dance performance, choreography, improvisation, and dance film.

Wednesday, November 5, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page

DXARTS: Hum under the riverstone

Hum Under the Riverstone was created through a collaboration of the members of the Human-Machine Interaction Networks Directed Research Group, coordinated by DXARTS Assistant Professor Laura Luna Castillo.

Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 PM at Meany Hall - Event Page

Thee Effluvium / Dosenöffner / Power Skeleton / Forrest Friends

Birthday noise show with Thee Effluvium (experimental noise), Dosenöffner, Power Skeleton (experimental rock band), and Forrest Friends (weirdo cave-junk vibes. creep-jammers.).

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

Everywhen: 9-5 Hyperfuck / Wren WX / Cortinoias

Presented by Everywhen, fundraiser for mutual aid along with performances from 9-5 Hyperfuck (digital hardcore) Wren WX (vocalist and poetry), and Cortinoias (ambient and anti-folk).

Friday, November 7, 7:00 PM at Mr. B’s Mead Center - Event Page

sounding / lowercase autumn

A confluence of sound. Anthony J. Stillabower will present a sustained sound using feedback, J.P. Jenkins will play solo guitar. The trio (Noel Kennon, Silas Morrow) is to be determined. Rebecca Novak will install a slide projection in the front windows.

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

Kelli Frances Corrado / River Irene / rEEk / Wicking Ground

Kelli Frances Corrado (ritual ambient) will play with River Irene (emotional folk), rEEk (noise), and Wicking Ground (experimental avant-folk).

Saturday, November 8, 8:00 PM at Teatro de la Psychomachia - Event Page

Lukas Dickson / Lobotomite / Meadowgoat

Take the ferry to Bremerton for a free show at a record store featuring Lukas Dickson (noise), Lobotomite (noise), and Meadowgoat (dungeon noise).

Saturday, November 8, 6:30 PM at Big Foot’s House of Vinyl (Bremerton) - Event Page

Modbang

The monthly free showcase of hardware electronic music will feature: HOUS3R, Collimator, La Lux, and Microfauna.

Tuesday, October 28, 7:00 PM at The 4Bs - Event Page

Clockwork Jenny / Desejo / EKG / Death Spa / Unborn Hacker / SH!TOMATO / Wizard Moded / Nightmare Grip

Halloween show in the industrial zone. Featuring Clockwork Jenny (autismcore), Desejo, EKG (party noise), Death Spa (abrasive prog punk), DJ Unborn Hacker, SH!TOMATO (noise), Wizard Moded (orb music) and Nightmare Grip from Portland.

Friday, October 31, 7:00 PM at Dracula’s Castle - Event Page

Halloween at Drongo

Hidden Driver will play as Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, members of CSTMR and Public Pool will play as Sugar Ray. Vapaa Mies special edition will perform as Arthur Russell, Archival Image will play as Coil, Big Jake Grizzly will play as Mogwai. There will also be a Jud Jud tribute.

Friday, October 31, 8:00 PM at Drongo Tapes HQ - Event Page

Geist & the Sacred Ensemble / Megaton Leviathan / Bog Bodies / Misandrist / MONED / CZ

Doom folk psychedelic band Geist & the Sacred Ensemble will play with Megaton Leviathan (doomgaze), Bog Bodies (doom metal), Misandrist, MONED (guitar noise), and CZ (harsh noise).

Saturday, November 1, 7:00 PM at The Charleston (Bremerton) - Event Page

Lori Goldston

Solo show for the fall with Lori Goldston (cello).

Saturday, November 1, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page

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