We’ve got a huge month at Elastic Arts with the weekly Making Multichannel Music workshops and this two set bill! Let’s get our CLEAT on! Tonight will open with Han Lee, Justin Ortez, and Shi-An Costello performing Jack Hamill’s Manifest the Terrestrial Shifting Boundlessness, a piece for three keyboard instruments celebrating the process of FM synthesis and it’s propensity for electric, earthbound, howling vibrations. These keyboard sounds will then be diffused throughout the 16-channel speaker system. Rounding out the night will be a quartet of Yousif Alzayed, Patrick Glennon, Mauricio López F., and Steph Patsula peforming via the CLEAT. We’ll see and hear three very different approaches to the system, and we can’t wait! Sounds at 8pm.

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

Artist Bios

Yousif Alzayed is a Kuwaiti/American artist working across the fields of video, sound, new media, and installation. Interested in patterns in nature that can be reproduced through the help of light, sound, and motion. With research spanning across physics, chemistry, and biology, he often focuses on integrating analog and digital electronics as an art material.

Patrick Glennon is an artist, musician, game developer, and curator. He regularly composes for dance and writes and performs with the experimental pop trio Big Pal and the electro-acoustic duo Lirra Skirra. He has curated the independent record label Dead Definition since 2016. Website: morgue.team

Mauricio López F. is a sound and music composer born in Santiago de Chile and currently based in Chicago, USA. His practice revolves around exploring various mediums within sound art, including sculptures, sonic assemblage, graphic scores, and performance with non-traditional instruments. All of these explorations are centered around topics such as translation, social misunderstandings, and migration. He studied music composition at the Emoderna with the renowned composer Javier Farías. Later, he entered the Aesthetics program at the PUC from Chile, focusing his research on the avant-garde within the context of Chilean popular music. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in the Sound program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received the New Artist Society Scholarship. Mauricio has performed in Chile, Perú, United States, Spain, France, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

Steph Patsula (b. 1988, CA/US) is an interdisciplinary artist best known for their work investigating the dynamic between autonomy and intimacy within human and non-human relationships. Patsula’s research is grounded in live performance, which embraces the unpredictable dynamics of working with materials, spaces, and bodies via improvisation — a process that reflects a personal desire for mutualism through attentiveness to a range of sensory thresholds.

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