Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd floor
Chicago IL 60622
www.heavengallery.com
The Chicago Scratch Orchestra (CSO) follows up its debut at the Green Mill with a new set of scores . The idea for the “Scratch Orchestra” was conceived in 1968 by British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew (1936–81), with fellow composers Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons. Its significance is provided in Cardew’s “Draft Constitution”:
“A Scratch Orchestra is a large number of enthusiasts pooling their resources (not primarily material resources) and assembling for action (music-making, performance, edification).
The word music and its derivatives are here not understood to refer exclusively to sound and related phenomena (hearing, etc). What they do refer to is flexible and depends entirely on the members of the Scratch Orchestra.”
Jason Soliday (electronics) and I perform on a bill with Ben Miller (Degeneration), Dan Burke (Illusion of Safety), and Wyoming (Andrew Young and Riley Walker).
Listen in to “Master Faders” on Free Radio SAIC, a one-hour webcast radio art show created with field recordings, analog reel-to-reel tape loops, contact microphones, digital recording & mixing, and electronic sound synthesis.
When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Thursday, November 18, 2010
Produced and performed by the students of my Spring 2010 Introduction To Sound course. If you miss the live show, check in the Free Radio archives and listen later.
Sunday, October 3 I perform with Chicago Phonography in “Temperatures and Shapes : Arctic Live/Chicago,” part of a Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival event that creatively explores the themes of temperatures and shapes – such as ice, mountains, climate change, bodies of water, the shape of things to come – and Arctic Live, which also celebrates the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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…
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60657
Phone: 773-281-0824
All shows are at 7:30 on Mondays. Schedule of the sonic artists:
Eric Leonardson: Sept. 13, Oct. 4, Nov. 15, Nov. 22
Stephan Mazurek’s photos help convey the spectacular and visceral nature of our work on the Plasticene 15th Year Process blog. To experience Plasticene’s work in the fullest sense you must be present physically, as I am. Our show opens tonight May 12 and runs until May 22 at Saint Paul’s Cultural Center at 2215 West North Avenue, in Wicker Park.
in partnership with the Near Northwest Arts Council
Plasticene presents the world premiere of FROM A FADING LIGHT
“…an immersive and breathtaking promenade physical theater performance that travels through the entirety of a 100-year-old church in Wicker Park created by Chicago’s pioneer physical theater company.
“Plasticene’s work is not to be missed…”—Chicago Tribune
“Plasticene’s work is never to be missed…”—Chicago Sun-Times
