Shortwave Collective workshop at ESS with the brilliant @soundarthannah š¦
We had such fun playing in the yard with our handmade receivers. Between our experiments over the past couple of days, we heard baseball, talk radio, faint music, some Russian, and a good amount of noise. Collective tuning was a joy :)
Tuesday, November 11, Iām giving a talk and doing a demo on the 16.1 CLEAT speaker system at @elasticarts as part of the āMaking Multichannel Musicā series. Iāll share some of the routing behind āDrop Lift & Fly,ā a piece I composed for a 7-voice choir and the CLEAT system that was performed earlier this year. And then Iāll discuss some more recent multichannel projects and experiments, including a performance piece with roving speakers on a labyrinth and the spiralized voices pictured/heard in this max patch.
This is a free event and there will be an opportunity to try out the system at the end of the workshop.
Announcing DISCRETE KINESIS 2, a film-scan-video by Eislow Johnson & Kate In
-Showing at @antimattermediaart festival October 17 (and then available to watch for free online for 24 hours after the in-person screening)
-At Enguage Experimental Film Festival @nwfilmforum in November in Seattle
-And @lightmatterfilmfestival in November in Alfred, New York and Buenos Aires
Discrete Kinesis is an interlude series within the multiple potential interstitial states of string harmonics. Hand processing and 16mm-to-digital scanning are treated as points of intervention and compositional instruments.
Sound Design & Mix by Kate In and Eislow Johnson.
Recorded with/special thanks to @matt__feldman
#shortfilm #experimentalfilm #16mm #handprocessedfilm
ššŖšµšŗ šŖšÆ šš¦š¢šµ 2 one-night performance!
Friday, August 22 at 8 PM 1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
A hot summer evening inside of a parked car. Unfolding in real time through the lens of a dashboard cam, encounters in a car outside of Roman Susan accumulate and combust out of the cameraās view onto the street. Part drive-in movie, part surveillance voyeurism, part abstracted domestic drama, Carlos Ferguson, Kate In, and Johanna Kasimow work together to create multimedia performances that contend with the sensation of ecological crises. The work examines the interior drama captured through the lens of a dashboard camera paired with the unpredictable rhythms outside the camera's frame.
@katesin___ #CarlosFerguson @johannakasimow@gerrithatcher@tiny_tiny_circus
#DevisedPerformance #FreeChicago #RogersPark #AlleyDrama #CarPlay #CityInHeat #ContemporaryArt #ExpandedCinema
Many things to share this week: Tonight! @frutas_af
6 PM Montrose Beach at Lawrence and Simonds Drive
Wednesday @tallulahcartalucca
6 PM at 1224 W Loyola Ave
Friday Carlos Ferguson, @katesin___ and @johannakasimow
8 PM at 1224 W Loyola Ave
Saturday @keemabin7
7:30 PM at 1224 W Loyola Ave
And all week longĀ @ben.luebkemann installation on view during events and 24/7 from the street šŖ
#ContemporaryArt #FreeChicago #FreeEvents #BeachHangout #Inflatables #CarPlay #DevisedPerformance #ExpandedCinema #Soundscapes #TheStorm #RogersPark #SummerArt
Doing another round of the City in Heat performance cycle at Roman Susan this Friday, August 22 at 8 PM.
Johanna Kasimow, Carlos Ferguson, and I first developed and performed City in Heat 1 in 2023 at Open Air Media Festival in Iowa City. This new work picks up where the characters left off, this time in Chicago and with an expanded cast and crew.
Join us outside Roman Susan on Friday for something like live theater plus expanded cinema about being people in the city in the heat. Look for the orange car.
Iām happy to announce that I recently received an Individual Artists Program grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events for The Almanac of Questions, an audio series Iām developing with my dear friend and collaborator Sally Beauvais! Thanks so much to DCASE and the City of Chicago for supporting artists.
#DCASEgrants
Love to the choir for Drop Lift & Fly, a piece I wrote for this vocal ensemble and the CLEAT system at Elastic Arts. The piece includes a combination of live choir, interactive sampling, and fixed media playback. The choir took all these roles in stride and became a versatile entity that could experiment and collaborate with the speakers during the performance. Working on the piece and singing together was a special experience and Iām very grateful to these friends for their spirit and labor with the piece.
Special thanks to Tom Dixon, Troy Cruz, Dom Bonelli, and especially Adam Vida, who played percussion in the playback. Thanks to Stephan Moore, Matt Test, Sam Clapp, and Ben Billington for making CLEAT available for these experiments.
Last of all, some peonies for the almanac: Itās a dream and a luxury to sing together during peony season just some days after the strawberry moon.
Sharing some moments from a recent trip to Colombia for the Media Art History International Conference x Festival de la Imagen. I spent time in BogotĆ and Manizales and attended talks and performances around the theme of the Regenerative, with threads on collective design, contemporary activations of ancestral memory/archives, and ecological balanceā all of which are sincerely exciting topics to me. Iām returning with expanded thoughts on these ideas and new energy to put toward the experimental media and technology work that I get to do as an artist and in collaboration with others.
Some favoritesā
Gabriela Aceves discussing the work and archive of Pola Weiss (first slide)
Kindred sweet venue and community at Matik Matik in BogotĆ (sixth slide)
Mountains (ever present)
Thank you to the Driehaus Foundation for the professional development grant support.
