We’re pleased to welcome back Kikù Hibino to Elastic Arts alongside Portuguese musician Pedro Lopes. Hibino will be utilizing Eurorack and Buchla synthesizers to create thick electronic environments, often leaning into rhythmic ambient territory. Lopes uses turntables as their main innstrument, creating their own needles and records via acryclic lathe cutting. He scrapes, bows, plucks, scratches, and manipulates the sounds with electronics to compose. Each artist will be presenting a solo set followed by a duo to close the night. Join us for this special Sunday evening of electronics!

Artist Bios

Pedro Lopes: ‘My name is Pedro Lopes, I’m a turntablist, computer scientist & hardware t(h)inker. I play turntables as a full-fledged musical instrument, which means I think they can be bowed, percussed, scratched, subversed & hacked. I make my own needles and records using circuit-bending and acrylic cutting. I engage in collaboration with visual artists, performance & improvisors. I played in venues such as Transmediale, Jazz em Agosto, Serralves Foundation, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Experimental Sound Studio, Casa da Música, Fylkingen, CCRMA, OutFest, Knockdown Center & Rescaldo and collaborated with many artists: Carlos Zíngaro, André Gonçalves, Gabriel Ferrandini, Ondness, Pedro Sousa, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Carlos Santos, Dj Sniff and in ensembles conducted by William Winnant (Zorn’s Cobra), Reinhold Friedl & Ernesto Rodrigues.’

In June of this year, Kikù Hibino created techno music using Eurorack modular and Buchla synthesizers for the artwork of visual artist Kongkee, exhibited at Wrightwood659 Gallery in Chicago. For this Elastic show, he will be presenting the evolved version of this music as a work-in-progress. Japanese-born sound artist Hibino produces electronic music focusing on unusual rhythmic structures and melodies inspired by nature, optical illusion, and moiré patterns. From chamber music for media productions to ambient noise for art installations, he has collaborated internationally with a wide variety of artists and scholars, including Baudouin Saintyves, Yuge Zhou, Mitsu Salmon, Kawaguchi Takao (Dumb Type), Theaster Gates, Mike Weis (Zelienople) and Norma Field. Kikù is on the Italian record label Superpang. His work has been shown in Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago Cultural Center, Three Walls, Compound Yellow, Elastic Arts, Hairpin Arts Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. He’s a 2017 Individual Artist Grant recipient from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and a 2021 Outer Ear Artist in Residency at Experimental Sound Studio. Kikù lives and works in Chicago.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID – Tickets Available at the Door

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