I hope you will join me at 7PM this Friday evening, Feb. 18 for a special presentation by sound and media artist Jay Needham, at The (New) Corpse, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622.

Jay will present selections from recent works in a lecture titled Ars Memoria: Several Alternate Histories of Place. Jay will be finishing a chapter on the sounds of Mashinima and planning an evening of radio art and surround sound works for the April 2011 Out of the Box Contemporary Music Festival in Carbondale, Illinois. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Communications Department at Southern Illinois University, and a member of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

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I am one of three guest artists creating sound at Links Hall in this nine-show series beginning September 13.

Links Hall Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard curates a series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other while the audience uses headphones to listen in…

All shows are at 7:30 on Mondays. Schedule of the sonic artists:

• Eric Leonardson: Sept. 13, Oct. 4, Nov. 15, Nov. 22
• Lou Mallozzi: Sept. 20 (with Sam Wagster), Oct. 11, Oct. 18
• Sam Wagster: Sept. 20 (with Lou Mallozzi), Nov. 1, Nov. 8

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