I perform in the GBO: Homelistening series with Carol Genetti (voice), Friday, June 19 at…

The Green Bicycle Organization

1626 N. California, #2 (top buzzer)

Chicago, IL 60647

Please BYOB

Carol and I have been performing together since 1997. Our first CD, Animus was released in 1998, and is perhaps unique for its use of voice and Springboard, an invented instrument that employs coil springs, rubber bands, bowed wood in order to produce a surprising range of timbres and microtones.

About Carol Genetti:

Carol Genetti is a vocalist, composer and installation artist. Her work is focused on the interplay between the voice as an expressive musical instrument and its extension into the sound-making realm. She has studied a variety of techniques including Western singing, Hindustani classical voice and Bulgarian folk music. Through these studies and her own explorations, she has developed a personal yet universal palette that is an abstraction of “extended” voice sounds – breaths, overtones, and disconnected textual bits, squeaks, growls, non-verbal tones – sounds that evoke unconscious emotions and human physicality.

Genetti has toured throughout the US, Canada, France and Germany and has performed numerous live concerts as an improvisational vocalist. She has collaborated with a large number of like-minded artists in both ad hoc groupings and long-standing partnerships, including her duos with electroacoustic improvisor Eric Leonardson; bassist Tatsu Aoki; the trio Nom Tom with saxophonist Jack Wright and percussionist Jon Mueller; collaborations with composer Adam Sonderberg; and multi-disciplinary performances with dancer Asimina Chremos.

She has composed sound/music scores for Hedwig Dance Company, the Sonic Celluloid Festival and the Outer Ear Sound Arts Festival. Her sound installations utilizing tape loops and lathe-cut records have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Spare Room Gallery and the Nova Art Fair. Labels that have published her recorded work include Balance Point Acoustics, Crouton, Dead CEO, Last Visible Dog, Recorded and Spring Garden Music.

Last month the GBO was pleased to announce that it received its first review in the New City free weekly paper.