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In conjunction with Experimental Sound Studio and the CLEAT Series we continue our series of artist-led introduction workshops exploring spatial audio.
The workshops are approximately 2 hours and will begin with a demonstration and discussion of each individual artist’s approach to multichannel sound. In the second half of the workshops, participants will have an opportunity to experiment with multichannel sound techniques on the 16-channel CLEAT system installed at Elastic.
Sky Trajectories (2024, from Superpang) is an experimental sonic work that uses Anne Carson's text as its theme, exploring how minimal musical units, characterized by off-grid rhythm patterns and voice (by Whitney Johnson), approach human perception.
In this workshop, the Hibino will explain how he approaches multi-channel works, using several pieces from this album as examples.
No prior experience with multichannel sound necessary! You will need to bring your own laptop to actively participate in the second half of each workshop, however you are also welcome to simply listen and observe without a laptop.
The workshops are FREE but space is limited. Come to one, or come to all! Following this round of four workshops we will start planning future CLEAT workshop series in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Fall 2025.
Artist Guests
May 1: Anthony Janas
May 8: Dorothy Carlos
May 15: Allen Moore
May 22: Kiku Hibino
This week’s Improvised Music Series features an all-star grouping of Chicago musicians, convened by drummer and composer Tommaso Moretti to flip the approach of his Inside Out project into electroacoustic abstractions. Opening the evening is Chicago-born, Bay Area experimental staple Andrew Jamieson, presenting solo piano deconstructions that are equal parts free jazz, gospel, and Ives-ian mashup.
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BUILD Chicago
5112 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644-510
Join us for a FREE community concert featuring Funkadesi & Amyna Love at BUILD Chicago in the Austin neighborhood. This is the 5th event in a 5-part series enabled by the #HealingIllinois grant. It's been a partnership between: Healing Illinois, Elastic Arts, Strategic Inclusion Consulting, and Funkadesi.This event is also launching an impressive weekend of activities by the fabulous BUILD Chicago. More info on this organization at www.buildchicago.org
FREE and open to the public!
Performances by Funkadesi, Amyna Love & more!
Shake Shook Shaken is a monthly theater/movement workshop series produced by Julie Meckler. The series is designed for people to gently bring body awareness, allowing participants to open up, explore outside of their comfort zone, bond with each other, create and show.
Shake Shook Shaken is a dream of what a safe space could allow. A vision of a place for everybody to gather, look at each other, play and create in a non judgmental, trauma-informed way. It’s an invitation, a journey within and out, a surprise. Each workshop is unique. This month we’ll have Gaby Martinez + Julie leading on the topic of SPRINGING!
No prior dance or acting experience is necessary, just willingness to move and exhale. This workshop series is for anyone and everyone.
To cap off a wonderful month of Making Multichannel Music Workshops with our 16 channel system we present a special event from Haotian Wang. Titled Tea: Story of the Leaves, the work weaves a variety of mediums together - including sound installation, sculpture, happening, podcast, poetry, and performance. Wang strives to capture the multi-sensory, healing experience of tea-drinking.
We are so excited to bring the Mosley/Long/Khol trio to Improvised Music Series. The MLK Trio is comprised of multi-instrumentalist Luke Mosely, electronic artist Norman W. Long & Cellist Lia Kohl. Come through for an exciting night of improvised music!
We’ve got an incredibly special Elastro Series planned for the final Friday of May! Montgomery and Turner is a duo featuring Nashville and Chicago based musicians Jayve Montgomery (Abstract Black) and Nick Turner (Tyresta). They began collaborating remotely in 2020 and are celebrating the recent release of their sophomore album Sound is Our Sustenance on Astral Editions. They will be joined by art educator. interdisciplinary artist, and Elastic curator Cristal Sabbagh for this performance.
Brussels, Belgium-based Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician whose background lies in experimental sound practice and performance. Her work primarily explores echoes and sustained sounds achieved through acoustic instruments and Supercollider, a coding language employed to craft various tuning systems. She integrates field recordings to capture the essence of time and everyday routines, immersing herself in the sounds of the wilderness, archival recordings, and the ambient music culture.
Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances blending extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analogue electronics and rich bass clarinet tone. Their solo album Particle of Organs has been described as "Operatic, wild and dark. It showcases the raw, unadulterated power of the body and the instrument, weaving together sounds that are both corrosive and tender."
Join us for this wonderful night of sound!
We’re so excited to host the prolific duo of NYC-based artists Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez for a special Wednesday night performance. Moten is an inimitable poet, theorist, critic, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Moten’s presence, voicing poetry in an improvisatory syncopation with the instrumentalists, raises the music to third plane, putting the record in a broader collection of legendary spoken-word jazz records from Gil Scott-Heron and Amiri Baraka to the contemporary energies of Moor Mother and Irreversible Entanglements. Bassist Brandon Lopez uses the instrument to conjure whole worlds of sound. His unique approach has made him an in-demand sideman and collaborator. That's in addition to leading his own projects, which includes a recent duo recording with Cecila Lopez and stints with Italian group Jooklo Duo.
You do not want to miss this special visit from Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez. Doors at 7:30pm, sounds shortly after 8pm.
PleiadesFest is an extension of the monthly Pleiades series, dedicated to showcasing the diverse talents within the femme, trans, and nonbinary performance community. The festival aims to reflect and further celebrate this mission, creating a space to build community and connection between women and gender nonconforming improvisors and creative performers from diverse backgrounds.
Initiator - Sojourner Zenobia
Improv Set 1 - Mabel Kwan, Maja Radovanlija
Improv Set 2 - CK Barlow, Emily Beisel, + TBD
Closer - Heet Deth
PleiadesFest is an extension of the monthly Pleiades series, dedicated to showcasing the diverse talents within the femme, trans, and nonbinary performance community. The festival aims to reflect and further celebrate this mission, creating a space to build community and connection between women and gender nonconforming improvisors and creative performers from diverse backgrounds.
2pm - Improvisation Workshop/Session with High Zero Foundation members:
Shelly Purdy CK Barlow Bonnie Lander
8pm - Initiator - Julie Meckler
Improv Set 1 - CK Barlow, Bonnie Lander
Improv Set 2 - Ingrid Laubrock, Mabel Kwan, Shelly Purdy, TBDMovers: Cristal Sabbah, Irene Hsiao, Julie Meckler, Rin Peisert
Closer - Circuit des Yeux