Opening Friday, January 20, 7:00 to 10:00 pm

National Wet Paint | Make Sound Exhibition

SAIC Sound MFA students, Jonny Farrow and Ethan Rose, featured in the inaugural Make Sound 2012 exhibition at the Zhou B Art Center, curated by Julia A. Miller, Christopher Preissing, and me. Auris (Eric Leonardson, springboard; Julia A. Miller, guitar; Christopher Preissing, flute) performs from 7:30 to 8:30 pm during the reception.

Make Sound 2012 is a partner exhibition to the National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012, and is organized in a similar fashion. MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients in sound art, installation, and performance will be honored and exhibited alongside those in Wet Paint.

Now in its first year, Make Sound 2012 focuses on Chicago-based artists, expanding to national submission-based curatorial efforts in the future.

Jonny Farrow, Feed3+
Feed3+ is an audio/visual improvisation utilizing a no-input feedback system that generates the audio, and a Jitter-manipulated video feedback system that generates the visuals. The visuals create an instant score for the audio performance. Feed3+ is the sum of three interdependent feedback loops: the audio, the video, and the performer’s reading and manipulation of the score. For more information visit: www.jonnyfarrow.net

Ethan Rose, Movements
Movements consists of a series of individually treated, electrically-powered music boxes that use the gallery wall as a resonating body. Each individual music box was physically altered by selectively bending back tines, resulting in a melodic reduction of the original composition. The altered boxes are then grouped and controlled by timers that intermittently activate different sections of the piece in order to engage a constantly shifting non-linear auditory experience. For more information visit: www.ethanrosemusic.com

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Sunday, September 11 between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. (Central US time)

WFMT 98.7 FM observes the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with Flags From Ashes, music and text conceived as a memorial for Sept. 11, 2001.

WFMT asked Latin American composer, Elbio Barilari to create a special work for radio broadcast to observe this day of peace and remembrance. I was invited to perform in Elbio’s group assembled for this project, recorded Wednesday, August 24 in the WFMT sound studio.

Amy Conn, Soprano
Andrew Royal, Violin
Eric Leonardson, Springboard
Andy Cohn, Piano
Kalyan Pathak, Tablas
Elbio Barilari, Bandoneon, electric guitar
Dan Godston, Trumpet

The broadcast includes text by Spanish novelist and journalist, Antonio Munoz Molina, read by WFMT’s Peter Whorf, and excerpts from Dirge For Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman, sang in English by Amy Conn and spoken by Elbio Barilari, in Spanish. Post-production and mix, Joshua Savageau, Cydne Gillard, Elbio Barilari at WFMT 98.7 studios.

If you missed the broadcast, you can listen to “Flags From Ashes” here:

The Chicago Phonography concert on Airplay is now available online. It was performed as a live broadcast from 4:30–7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 16

Find the blog post here on WNUR and listen via WNUR’s stream link.

COMING UP: Chicago Phonography performs at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for World Listening Day on Saturday, July 23. Find more information on the website of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

Chicago Phonography is an informal collective that performs with field recordings from around the Chicago land area: www.chicagophonography.org/

“Nature performs, we provide the secretarial services.” R. Murray Schafer

On Friday, July 15 I perform with my partner in “sound crime” Anna Friz and her radiophonic installation, Respire during the opening this evening at Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS).

Opening Reception: 6PM-9PM

Anna’s website: http://nicelittlestatic.com/

ESS website: http://www.experimentalsoundstudio.org/
Respire will be active at Audible Gallery until August 7.

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Performing 7PM

A part of the 11^th Annual SKETCHBOOK: EVOLUTION

Also performing next week Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24.

ARTICULAR FACET is a continuation of Julia Miller’s electroacoustic performance project series that began in early 2011 with Joseph Kramer, Noé Cuéllar, Coppice, Andy Ortmann, and Auris.

SKETCHBOOK is Collaboraction’s annual cross-disciplinary performance festival “…featuring the collective talents of more than two hundred pioneering directors, designers, actors, musicians and artists from Chicago and around the country for a jaw-dropping evening of creativity, experimentation, and celebration.”

Facebook: www.facebook.com/collaboraction

Saturday, April 30

Sound Structure: Sound and Art in an Era of Flow

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Presented by the International Sculpture Center
Polly Ullrich’s feature article about sound in art in Chicago comes out in the May issue of Sculpture Magazine. Read her full article online with audio and video, “Making Worlds: Chicago Sound As Sculpture.”

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Plasticene’s New Work in 2011

March 24–26 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

Plasticene’s process blog: http://plasticene.blogspot.com/

Millennium Park: http://www.millenniumpark.org/parkevents/event.aspx?id=1221

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 18

Dexter Bullard’s The Dialogues is back from its successful run at Links Hall. I will create a live sound mix to accompany two performers who improvise a telephone conversation as the audience eavesdrops on headphones, for the MCA’s Without You I’m Nothing: Interactions series.

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

I perform with Julia Miller and Coppice: Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer, as a part of Articular Facet 2.

Collaboraction CARNAVAL

www.doubledoor.com

$10 general admission, $15 at the door; doors open at 8:00, show begins at 8:30. From the Facebook event: Articular Facet serves as an audio guest artist for Collaboraction’s legendary fundraising party.
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Originally uploaded by Lantern Projects
Here are photos of the scene on Friday for Jay Needham’s talk, Ars Memoria: Several Alternates Hostories of Place. These images are from Lantern Projects, our host.

Please visit this post again later as I hope to add some audio excerpts, and visit http://mwsae.org/?p=1198 for updates to the MSAE schedule.