∆ RM Francis is an artist based in Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. He has presented work at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (Oakland), The Lab (San Francisco), Kolonia Artystów (Gdańsk), and at festivals including Diffusion (Baltimore), Algorithmic Art Assembly (San Francisco), and Parken (Vienna). His practice foregrounds computation-based compositional strategies, focusing on methods that exploit discrepancies between human and artificial auditory systems. His current work exploits latent phonological data extracted from non-linguistic sound in order to generate the tonal, rhythmic, and semantic content of synthesized speech. The resulting asubjective narration articulates the potentialities of speech decoupled from embodied human expression, navigating between abstract sound and uncanny characterological specificity.

His oeuvre spans multimedia work incorporating sound, video, performance, and chocolate (Hyperplastic Other, 2017), investigations of historical computer synthesis methods (A Taxonomy of Guffaws, 2020), procedural text works for a chorus of synthetic voices (Every Single Person Has Some Muscle, 2022), and hallucinatory duets between dictation apps and deep learning networks (pedimos un mensaje, 2023). In addition to his solo projects, in recent years he has collaborated with Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher, Jung An Tagen, and farmersmanual, among others.

∆ Pooch Karton is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Working with synthesis and sample manipulation, Pooch Karton explores the multivalence of sound as both human artifice and natural phenomenon. Seeking new forms in the interplay of these ideas, Pooch Karton makes recordings, performances and installations.

He has released work on Dream Disc, and Nada (which he co-runs), and has presented and performed work across the united states. In 2019, he co-founded InSitu – festival for electronic music and sound art in Minneapolis.

∆ Hunter Brown is a composer, improviser, and computer musician based in Chicago, Illinois. His practice is focused on creating unpredictable, idiosyncratic, and unruly interactions with digital technology. In particular, he is interested in exploring the unstable material properties of digital systems through technologically mediated listening and pushing digital technology’s physical mechanisms to the threshold of failure. In Chicago, Hunter serves as the technical director for Ensemble Dal Niente and runs the computer music focused record label Party Perfect!!! alongside collaborator Dominic Coles. He is a PhD Student at the University of Chicago.

Thursday, November 14, 2024
8p doors, 8:30 start
$10-15 suggested donation

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