About
Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coast’s most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures. Classically trained, she has shifted to an unabashedly experimental artistic output: As a performer, she can be seen performing on instruments like her electric seven string and five string violins or her electronic pedal board…
Albums
CHA
An iconoclastic trio of classically trained artists who have crossed into the world of free improvisation - Carol J Levin (harp), Heather Bentley (viola), and Amelia Love Clearheart (voice). All three are active participants in Seattle’s dynamic creative music scene, now joining forces to make a bold and unique statement.
KOTM
“FUNERAL SENTENCES FOR DAMAGED CELLS traces stories of disease, reckoning, and trauma through generations of my American family through the poetry of my late mother, late grandfather, and myself. As it mirrors the Anglican funeral sentences, it becomes an elegy for the dead.” - Kaley Lane Eaton
Meeting Point
A collaboration by Seattle musicians Heather Bentley and Steve Layton. Bentley created and recorded free improvisations on viola and piano. Layton received the tracks via the internet and mashed, remixed and processed them in various and sundry ways to create the works heard here.