Muscular Calves
Erica Miller
Photograph: Ricardo Adame
Jack Langdon
Jeff Kimmel
Photograph: Julia Dratel
Erica Miller (they/she) is a cellist, improviser, composer, producer, and visual artist; Jack Langdon is a musician with concentrations in experimental music, minimalist documentary, and cultural politics; Jeff Kimmel is a clarinetist whose work encompasses improvisation and new and experimental music. The three artists will perform an improvised trio set.
Muscular Calves is Oui Ennui (synths), Emma Hospelhorn (flutes), Jordan Knecht (percussion), and Scott Meyers (guitar).
8:30 Erica Miller / Jack Langdon / Jeff Kimmel
9:30 Muscular Calves
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
About the artists
Erica Miller (they/she) is a cellist, improviser, composer, producer, and visual artist based in Chicago. They create music that interweaves the sound of acoustic cello with electronics and is a wide ranging exploration of sonic landscapes, drones, and unique sounds that can be described as evocative and cinematic.
Erica has performed, recorded, and toured with artists including Lykanthea, Tim Daisy, aperiodic, and the Emmy winning performance collective, Manual Cinema. She has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edgar Miller Legacy, Garfield Park Conservatory, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Constellation Chicago, and has been featured on The Wire Magazine. She has composed and produced music for Lykanthea's soon to be released, debut album, Some Viscera.
Jack Langdon (b. 1994, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) is a musician, filmmaker, and writer with concentrations in experimental music, minimalist documentary, and cultural politics.
Across mediums, Jack’s work stages elusive, complex encounters with commonplace subjects, scenes, and sounds. As a musician, he has created extensive work for pipe organs, and regularly performs on a variety of keyboard instruments as well as the Ojibwe wooden flute (bibigwan). His films focus on landscape, the built environment, memory, and their transmission through people. He writes on the political economy of artistic production and the workplace politics of American independent music making. His recordings have been released by IMPREC, Sawyer Editions, Dinzu Artefacts, and Lobby Art Records. His written work has been published by Sound American, Cacophony, and Shred Magazine and runs an independent record label and music journal based in Chicago called Empty Stage. He is a PhD student in Composition and Music Technology at Northwestern University.
Jeff Kimmel is a Chicago-based clarinetist whose work encompasses improvisation, new and experimental music, and interdisciplinary collaborations. His discography includes releases on New Focus Recordings, Dinzu Artefacts, Amalgam, Peira and Low Impact. Jeff’s work has been funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and he was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to work with Roscoe Mitchell. He holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory.