Saturday, June 15

Raica and St Celfer at the Wayward Music Series

Name: Raica and St Celfer at the Wayward Music Series
Start: 2024-06-15T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-15T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Good Shepherd Center

St Celfer (John Parker) and Raica (Chloe Harris) solo sets

By St Celfer

Date and time

Saturday, June 15 · 8 - 10pm PDT

Location

Good Shepherd Center

4649 Sunnyside Avenue North Seattle, WA 98103

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About this event

St Celfer (John Parker) makes future folk improvisations on glitch-tronics: sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed and overloaded signals. During the isolation of the pandemic, St Celfer devised instruments focused on the interface between human and machine. They mount to a single mic stand with interconnected gear attached and arranged so that the player can best make music in the moment. Each performance embraces sensory overload in order to unlock ways of perceiving a world made narrow: There is a lot of noise today – we need to hear the music within it. St Celfer has been featured as "New & Notable" in the experimental category on Bandcamp for 3 years running.

The cavernous and beautiful project of Chloe Harris; Raica walks a fine musical line between lucid animation and blurred darkness. Using
only machines that communicate noises and blurps to a fascinating degree.

Organized by

St Celfer

“Seattleʼs St Celfer writes immersive electronic songs that encompass both haunting beauty & wild experimentalism.” – BANDCAMP

St Celfer, of Korean and American origin, currently lives between São Paulo and Seattle, the latter living off/on since 1990. A fan of Seattle grunge, was, once upon a time, in the 00’s New York scene performing, among other places, at CBGB’s, The Kitchen, Tonic, The Tank, Remote Lounge, Galapagos Art Space, Sputnik, and Stinger Club.

During the isolation of the pandemic, St Celfer developed an innovative and sophisticated electronic instrument – a “gambiarra,” in Brasilian Portuguese – named Step4D™. This unpredictable instrument is designed to be played and heard live, in real time, and works in a way that bypasses step by step, rational thinking. Every unique performance embraces chaos and forms songs from turmoil.

St Celfer has twice been named New & Notable on BANDCAMP (2021 & 2022), and is the featured wave track for Infrasonica issue #7, ‘Voicing Abstraction’. Much of his work can also be found on his YouTube channel.