SEATTLE
Visible Cloaks
An evening of illusionary abstraction presented in quadraphonic sound
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Seattle First Baptist Church
7pm (doors) 8pm (performance)
Support artist tba
All ages
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Reflections presents acclaimed duo Visible Cloaks (with Componium Ensemble) in a rare live set. Blurring the lines between real & virtual musicians, the group will use aleatoric processes & hyperreal instrumentation to explore sonic terrain beyond purely human limitations.
We’ll bring their vision of “indeterminate chamber music” to life in immersive, quadraphonic sound. Paired with our projection-mapped light show, the night promises to transform this historic Seattle church in a state of mystery and abstract beauty.
Visible Cloaks
VISIBLE CLOAKS are two musicians, Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile, working in the space between composition and sound design, arrangement and environment, place and non-place.
Their music has taken many forms: site-specific multi-channel pieces, live A/V performances, compositions for aleatoric chamber ensembles, albums, EPs, film scores, video game music composing, corporate sound design, collaborations with musicians like Miyako Koda, Motion Graphics, Seungmin Cha, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, and music for installations by artists like Brenna Murphy, Mike Tyka and Nile Koetting.
Both live and in the studio, their work focuses on the artifice of digital representation, utopian flashes seen in cultural exchange, the cartography of virtual worlds and the extension of abandoned vectors of futurism into the present.
Componium Ensemble
COMPONIUM ENSEMBLE is an “indeterminate chamber music” ensemble helmed by composer, sound artist and researcher Spencer Doran.
Situated in a lineage of automated music that runs through Archimedes' organum hydraulicum to Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel’s Componium and the cyber-human music of Noah Creshevsky, Doran uses the possibilities of digital technology and its ability to automate a huge range of virtual instruments to move beyond human limitations to allow new shapes to emerge. 2025 sees the arrival of the ensemble’s first release 8 Automated Works via Osaka’s EM Records, utilizing aleatoric processes and hyperreal instrumentation hinted at in Doran’s work with Visible Cloaks and his VGM score for Playstation’s Season: A Letter to the Future.
Seattle First Baptist Church
Known for its beautiful stained glass and dramatic copper clad spire, the First Baptist Church is a Seattle architectural landmark. Designed by Seattle architect U. Grant Fay and the Tacoma firm of Russell & Babcock, it was created in the English Gothic revival style and completed in 1912. The building is an ADA accessible space.
1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
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