N.N.N. Cook (HCL Winter Sponsored Artist 2014) is a sound artist, graphic designer, visual artist and member of Close/Far, an artists’ collective and recording label. This performance, a culmination of his Winter Sponsorship with HCL, will be an expansion of his piece “Process Passage” which is performed with three cassette-recorders, a motorized wooden-wheel mounted on a gong, a wooden flute, a maraca, and voice.

Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) is a Chicago-based duet of bellows and electronics. Since its formation in 2009 they have produced original compositions for stage, fixed media, and performed installation settings, with a focus on adhering textural attenuation, processed gradation, the contours of instrumentation, and their multiple aspect highlights. Coppice participated in HCL’s Sponsored Projects Program during the Spring 2012 Season. For this evening’s performance Coppice will present a new articulation of air across edges.

Video works by Amir George (HCL Winter Sponsored Artist 2014):
EL Quatro (2012, 4:06) – Solemnity visual for the number 4.
TRW (2011, 4:58) – A moving painting.

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http://www.futurevessel.com/coppice/
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N.N.N. Cook (b. 1980) lives and works in St. Louis. A sound artist, graphic designer, and visual artist, Nathan is a member of Close/Far, an artists’ collective and recording label. Cook’s work often considers the acoustic and spatial qualities of physical settings as he utilizes sound as a transient, duration-based medium that requires extended and focused listening. He performs solo and is active in many collaborations. The Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, Apop Records, Floating Laboratories, and Open Lot are among the venues that have hosted his performances in St. Louis. Past fixed media work includes a composition installed at Laumeier Sculpture Park for their Site/Sound exhibition, where sound works were created and presented with specific sculptures. Future fixed media work includes an installation created for Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, which will transform their elevator into a laboratory for sonic investigation. The four-part work will present a new selection each month exploring themes related to movement, space, and our relationship with machines. His piece, “Diffusion (Coordinates Checker)” is an HCL Winter 2014 Sponsored Project.

Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) is a Chicago-based duet of bellows and electronics. Since its formation in 2009 they have produced original compositions for stage, fixed media, and performed installation settings, with a focus on adhering textural attenuation, processed gradation, the contours of instrumentation, and their multiple aspect highlights. Their variable instrumentation departs from bellows and reed instruments (accordion, pump organ, shruti box, harmonica), custom electronics (reproduction, transmission, spatialization, interference and gentle feedback), and multi-channel systems adapted in ways responsive to location, audience flow, and aural perspectives. Recently praised as “virtuosic and exact listening,” Coppice has appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Flea Theater in New York, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis, McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival in Shreveport, and internationally in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands. Their project, “Vinculum (Conjugate)” was an HCL Sponsored Project in Fall 2012.

Amir George is a motion picture artist and film curator from Chicago. His film and video work has been screened in festivals and galleries across the US, Canada, and Europe. In addition to founding Cinema Culture, a grassroots film programming organization, he is also the co-curator of Black Radical Imagination an experimental short film program, that was featured in Best of 2013 issue of Art Forum. Amir currently teaches and produces media with youth throughout Chicagoland and lectures at cultural centers and academic institutions nationwide. His film Decadent Asylum is an HCL Winter 2014 Sponsored Project.

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