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.
Zhou B Art Center
1029 West 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609
Tel: 773-523-0200
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
Join the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, Chicago Phonography, World Listening Project, National Park Service, and the Chicago Park District Stargazers Saturday evening, July 23 at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, as we celebrate World Listening Day 2011.
The event takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (Central Time).
Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education
100 N. Lake Street, Gary, Indiana 46403
Douglas Center Telephone: 219-395-1772
Chicago Phonography will perform first. The evening soundwalk on Miller Woods trail follows.
More details are posted on the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website: http://mwsae.org/?p=1480
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).
The Chopin Theatre
1543 West Division
Chicago IL 60622
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.”
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.”
An online article about my springboard just posted on April 4 in the Daily Egyptian, the newspaper of Southern Illinois University. I was interviewed by Pat Sutphin when I performed in the Outside the Box Music Festival, on Saturday, April 2. You can look and listen to it in the multimedia section. Jay Needham curated the evening of radio art and surround sound works in which I performed on that evening.
7:30 Saturday, April 2 I will be performing live in an evening of radio art and surround sound works at the Chris Moe Theater, Communications Building at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
At 3:30 Sunday, April 3 I will give a lecture about my work in sound. Visit the Outside the Box 2011 website for schedule of renowned guest artists: http://otbsiu.com/
On Saturday, April 16 I will give a talk about the World Listening Project and give a performance at the CIT Cork School of Music. Pauline Oliveros will also be performing telematically from the US with John Godfrey. On Sunday at 12 p.m. I lead a soundwalk workshop in Cork.
Just Listen is a sound art event initiated by the National Sculpture Factory that will unfold across various venues and sites across Cork and Limerick through April 2011. Just Listen will include installations, performances, talks, workshops events and concerts. Invited artists include: David Toop, Anne Bean, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Prime, Eric Leonardson, Stephen Vitiello, John Godfrey, Sabine Breitsameter, and Nicolas Collins. Just Listen was curated by Danny McCarthy and Sean Taylor.
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.
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
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.
Jonny Farrow, Feed3+
On Friday, July 15 I perform with my partner in “sound crime” Anna Friz and her radiophonic installation, 
Also performing next week Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24.
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, 
