Ground Hum

We are thrilled to announce our 2026 lineup! This year's Ground Hum features performances spanning live electronics, experimental bassoon, and drum-centered noise that invite you into immersive and unpredictable sonic worlds. Interactive installations will fill the space with tactile and visual encounters that encourage exploration. We're also expanding our workshops and are excited to offer more space to learn about production and experimental music. If you’ve been to Ground Hum before, you know you will find the unexpected and delightful. You can also pre-order food this year! Our dear friends @jinhee.jpeg and @tomohottie will be offering bento boxes for sale. Vegan option available. You can find food pre-orders on our website when you buy a ticket. Endless thanks to beloved Washington Hall for hosting us and to our sponsors, @kc4culture and @shunpikearts . We will be announcing more info about individual artists and workshops here in coming weeks. If you're curious to find out about our artists now, head to our website. Stay tuned and don't wait to get your tickets! Link in bio.

We are super excited to share our workshop program for this year featuring @cami.flage and @i__e.o_ ! Both workshops are free and open to the public on Ground Hum Day (March 7). Space is limited. Come learn something with us 🎶🫂

Ground Hum Year 5, a very special day of experimental music and visual art at Washington Hall. All visuals by @blazinspace except during A/V performance by @i__e.o_ 💜 Visual art by @imprecision.art @mortyarts_herbs @chelsearodino @someone___person___ @groundhum

Today's the day! We can't wait to see you. Prepare to settle in for a beautiful day of learning, music, and art! Don't forget we have free workshops starting at noon in the basement of Washington Hall (aka the lodge room). Sadly, we had another cancellation due to illness so @chloeharris_raica will not be performing today. However, we are thrilled that @i__e.o_ (who are teaching a workshop) will be performing their live AV set for us. Their set "Portals," will be their Seattle debut and we promise it will be mesmerizing. You are welcome to bring cozy blankets and pillows to settle in for a long listen. Please bring your inside voices. A limited number of tickets are available at the door. Merch, food, and tea will be available for purchase at the event! Cash and card accepted. Masks encouraged. There will be complimentary masks and air purifiers on site. Bring earplugs. See you soon!

We are super excited to offer new shirts by @multisurfacebody and hats by @fish_encyclopedia for our 5 year anniversary merch! Shirts are $40, hats are $35 KEMC aka @multisurfacebody is a screen printer and tattoo artist working in DIY spaces in Seattle WA. She maneuvers her work thru the machinery of non-derivative bootlegging as praxis and cottage industrial manufacturing as practice. Her work has been published by Seith Communiti and Cold Cube Press, and has recently shown at Specialist Galleriy. Aashish Gadani (b. 1991) aka @fish_encyclopedia is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in video, sculpture, and textiles, and is the founder of the apparel brand Fish Encyclopedia. His work has been exhibited at Dunkunsthalle, New Uncanny, Hyacinth, Deli Grocery, 205 Hudson Gallery, Sara’s, Blade Study, Mutek NEXUS and Corridor Festival. He completed his MFA at Hunter College in NYC in 2025.

Esc will be joining us this year for a performance you certainly don't want to miss. Unfortunately, @madeline_stepien will not be able to perform at this year's festival due to illness. esc is plummeting towards the animism of annihilation. Whalefall praxis of object-object relationships. A meshed network of veiled agents too vast to express themselves in the crystallization of language, digital stitching breaches the organic piano-vocal fabric bringing us all together in a moment of equalization, eye to eye. True communication beyond the voice & gulf between self and other. An acoustic-stitch-electric work that raises a physical veil to reveal a more vulnerable self hidden beyond the body. A bringing together of all things through an inhuman sense. A coming of angels that look nothing like us. We are honored to have @ra.bbit.hole join us!

It's been such a fun five years of organizing this event! Come join us THIS SATURDAY March 7th from 12pm to 11pm! This one will be special.

Ground Hum would not be what it is without the transformations made by our installation artists! This year we have four artists contributing visual works: 1. María Dolores A. Matienzo is a composer, poet, intermedia artist, and archivist living on unceded Coast Salish lands in so-called Seattle, Washington. Her works explore ritual, sensory experience, immaterial labor, and memory and memorialization. 2. Chelsea is a Seattle-based mixed media artist who explores themes of identity, self-exploration, connection, emotion, and the idea of home. This series is born from the anxiety of existence, the weight of grief, the chaos of coping, and the quiet bliss of regrowth again and again. 3. Jax Braun (they/them) is a weaver of light, fiber, craft, and construction, drawing together the ecstatic and still to create reflective and collective spaces.  4. Simone is a Ground Hum organizer and maker who walked past a scrap pile and saw a sculpture. Her installation was born from a chance encounter with a mangled piece of chicken wire. By applying fiber techniques to industrial salvage, she transforms rigid wire into organic, hand-knit forms that aid in way finding and ambiance for this years’ Ground Hum Festival. Make sure to take time to explore these contributions. There will be maps and wayfinding to help you get the full experience.

GROUND HUM is just around the corner, and you won't want to miss this amazing lineup of talented local artists! This year's @groundhum is on March 7, 2026, at Washington Hall, featuring performances by upsammy, Joy Guidry, Raven, Sean Meehan, Madeline Stepien, Raica, ANKOKU and Travel Agent. The performances span electronics, experimental bassoon, and drum-centered noise and invite you into immersive and unpredictable sonic worlds. Interactive installations will create tactile and visual encounters that invite exploration. Plus, there's an expanded workshop program with talks on sequencing techniques and worldbuilding with AV during live performances. If you’ve been to Ground Hum before, you know you will find the unexpected and delightful. Workshops from noon to 3 pm. Musical performances from 3 pm to 11 pm. This event is all ages! Tickets available at groundhum.net

We are so excited to offer our first ever pre-order food option! Vegan dosirak boxes, made with love by industry favorites @jinhee.jpeg and @tomohottie ! Featuring: INARI stir-fried napa cabbage kimchi tamari marinated fernbrake ume shiso rice mini daikon pickles seaweed salad MISO SOUP white miso *included with lunchbox contains: gluten (inari pockets), sesame, soybean, allium, chili These are available for purchase on our website with the ticket link for $12! A very limited amount will be available day-of, so please put in your order in advance. These are going to be delicious and we can't wait to share them with you!

We are honored to have long-time Seattle favorite and @furtherrecords co-owner, @chloeharris_raica join the lineup this year! RAICA is a live ambient electronic project focused on slow evolution, texture, and spatial depth. Built around hands-on hardware systems, performances unfold gradually, emphasizing tone, resonance, and subtle rhythmic drift over fixed structures.

We are thrilled to welcome local legends and longtime friends, Travel Agent to the lineup this year! Travel Agent is a collaborative project between Cameron Kelley and Ruben Griggs. The two channel over a decade of shared conceptual development to synthesize boundless electronic music. Though no sound is off the table for Travel Agent, the music tends towards the textural, dubwise, and hallucinatory. This is music of possibility, opportunity, initiative.