trace/play

Jason Soliday

It has now been 5 years since the CLEAT multi-channel speaker system was installed in Elastic Arts. The CLEAT has proven to be one of the most versatile, exciting, accessible, and fully experimental instruments we have for our artists community to utilize. Huge thanks to Stephan Moore, Sam Clapp, and Matt Test for holding down this series for 5 beautiful years (with a short bug break, of course). We hope the system continues to be the most accessible spatial audio system in the world.

To celebrate 5 years, we have a very special January CLEAT Series planned. trace/play is a collaboration between interdisciplinary performance artist Chrissy Martin and interactive artist Owen Lowery. The work offers multi-sensory experiences for audiences through live processing with AI body tracking, sonification, and generative visualization, all imbued with a sense of curiosity and serious play. Chrissy and Owen play with the traces of change through the collaborative manipulation of physical performance and multiple tech elements. The audience is invited to contemplate, experiment, and move through the space, creating a collective artwork that is printed as a poster they take home at the end of the show. We can’t wait to see how this work translates on the CLEAT in our space.

The very first CLEAT Series show featured the legendary Chicago sound artist and organizer Jason Soliday. It seems appropriate to welcome him back after 5 years as part of the celebration, and we can’t wait to hear what he has up his sleeves! Jason will be using eurorack modular and computer synthesis to tickle the speakers with incredibly dynamic sounds.

Don’t miss this one! Five more years!!

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door