music composition

Seattle composer Shaudi Bianca Vahdat poses for a photo at KNKX studios. Vahdat's project The Golden Door: An American Immigrant Song Cycle will feature performances this weekend at Seattle Open Arts Place.

Seattle composer turns interviews into songs about immigrant experience

Freddy Monares

The project builds off Shaudi Bianca Vahdat's thesis she started in 2017 while at the Berklee School of Music in Valencia, Spain.

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. He directs The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, a 15-piece band of Seattle improvisers.

Jazz

‘What's Going On’ is Wayne Horvitz's musical exploration of improvisation and structure

Lawrence Peryer

The Seattle-based composer brings together 60 musicians to celebrate the legacies of Butch Morris, Sun Ra, and Julius Hemphill in a groundbreaking Earshot Jazz Festival series.

A portrait of composer Anthony Davis wearing a blue sweater and a leather jacket.

Arts & Culture

Meet the composer behind 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X'

Emil Moffatt

"X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" made its debut in the 1980s, but it's popularity is on the rise at it arrives in Seattle.

Musician Rosemary Ponnekanti plays the double bass for Pakak, a walrus at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, in late July. Ponnekanti, who works for the communications team at the zoo, composed music that prompted musical responses from the walruses.

Other News

Tacoma musician plays for Point Defiance Zoo walruses, who sing along

Ed Ronco

Walruses have a huge vocabulary of sounds. They whistle, they grunt, and they can even sound like a steam train.But, Rosemary Ponnekanti says, they also…

Business

Gamer Melodies: A Composer Explains Her Career And The Need For Pixel Prison's Harmonica

Ashley Gross

People who love games – everything from ones on the computer to board games – will dominate downtown Seattle this weekend attending the convention known…