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.

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

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Sunday, October 17, 10:00PM US CST (GMT -6)

Julia Miller (guitar, electronics) and I perform live on “Something Else” hosted by Philip von Zweck, on WLUW 88.7 FM. This live broadcast will feature our music and interviews about our work with group member, and composer Christopher Preissing (flute, electronics), phoning in from Nebraska. Copy and load this link into your mp3 player to listen to WLUW’s live stream. Or, visit wluw.org.

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Hosted by Philip von Zweck on WLUW 88.7FM since 1995, Something Else is Chicago’s longest running radio show devoted to seldom-heard and experimental, avant-garde musics, sound art, works of long duration (no excerpts!), and other less classifiable things that just don’t have an outlet.

Dear Friends,

Please join us as my Instrument Construction students perform with their new and unusual musical instruments…

8PM Saturday April 24

Enemy

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor

Chicago IL 60622

Admission: FREE

Waveforms is a showcase of student sound works held every semester, organized by Sound Department grad students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). My class will perform as the 8 Ohm Danger Squad. Here’s a video, shot by my TA Kyle Evans, of some of the instruments as they were building and testing:

This semester Ryan Dunn has organized Waveforms under the theme “Remains.”The show includes a performance by Kyle Evans, my TA for Instrument construction, and inventor the electronically modified didgeridoo, performing to real time generated video in addition to this wonderful instrument.

http://my.saic.edu/news/35068/In-Memory-of-Alumnus-Flores-Flo-McGarrell-.htm

Sad news arrived today, but the good news is that our other friend and colleague from SAIC, Sue Frame is okay we are told.

Flo’s amazing work in Haiti was written about in the Art21 series last year.

Here’s a link to a local news report.

NEWS UPDATE [received 1/19/2010] (more…)

This evening I uploaded a 5-minute video about the springboard to my youtube account. I made it two years ago with Gretchen Hasse. Please use this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0MDuHX1hY

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 6:30pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

I perform with Global Warming featuring Elbio Barilari (guitar), Guillermo Gregorio(clarinet), Jeb Bishop (trombone), and Eric Hochberg (double bass), to celebrate the Poetry Center’s 36th Annual Reading Series.

Distinguished authors Stuart Dybek and Yusef Komunyakaa will read their work along with emerging artists Rachel Webster and the winners of the Poetry Center’s Hands on Stanzas Student Inaugural Poem Contest.

For more information about tickets and the contest visit http://poetrycenter.org

This Spring semester my Introduction to Sound students at SAIC produced four one-hour live webcasts. These are now available in the Free Radio SAIC archive.

• Eight Forms of Hair Removal (April 8, 2009)
• Eight Forms of Snare Removal (April 9, 2009)
• Dear Late Night Traveler (April 22, 2009)
• Dream Stream (April 23, 2009)

On Friday, December 5 Jérôme Joy played “Sobralasolas! Episode 1” on Free Radio SAIC. This 80-minute radio-opera was created in collaboration with Dinahbird, Caroline Bouissou, Björn Eriksson, Kaffe Matthews, and Gregory Whitehead. Afterward, I joined Jérôme for a wonderful 30-minute performance on my Springboard. Jérôme played lapotop. This programs ran for two hours. Listen here on the Free Radio SAIC archives: http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/125/

“Sobralasolas! Episode 1” is to be released soon as a CD on Avatar.

3—5:00 PM, Friday, December 5 with Jérôme Joy on Free Radio SAIC

7:30 PM, Monday, December 8 with Will Soderberg at Myopic Books

Friday, December 5, 03:00 PM US Central Time (GMT -6) — Jérôme Joy from the Locus Sonus project webcasts “Sobralasolas ! episode 1”, his networked radio play produced in collaboration with Dinahbird (Bird), Caroline Bouissou (Caroline), Björn Eriksson (Miulew), Kaffe Matthews (Mademoiselle Jaune) and Gregory Whitehead (Têteblanche). Jérôme then joins Eric Leonardson for discussion of the new partnership of Locus Sonus  and the World Listening Project, concluding the program with an improvised musical duet of invented instruments and laptop.

Listen in on http://freeradiosaic.org

Program, running from 3 pm to 5 pm:

1 hour: “Sobralasolas ! episode 1” (radio play, with an introduction) by Jérôme Joy

30 min: Eric Leonardson and Jérôme Joy discussion of Locus Sonus, World Listening Project

30 min: live improvisation by Eric Leonardson (springboard) and Jérôme Joy (electronics)

Monday, December 8 7:30 PM - Myopic Books with Will Soderberg (MIDI guitar, micromoog)

1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622, upstairs
www.myopicbooks.com
FREE

The Free Radio SAIC Archives are up now at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/

Listen to the November 6th performance by my Intro To Sound students via the above link or direct link to Ear Beer at http://freeradiosaic.org/radio/archives/76/

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