Performance: Heavy Riffing for Heavy Times
with Sam Scranton, Nick Meryhew, and Andrew Tham
December 13, 2024
7:00-9:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Student & IMSS Members (With ID) Presale

$15 GA Presale

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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With ID) at Door

$20 GA at Door

Sam Scranton, Nick Meryhew, and Andrew Tham enthusiastically present Heavy Riffing for Heavy Times. Together, they will put forth a block of sound that projects urgency, volume, care, fellow feeling, harmonic extasis, unison, dropped B saturation, and more. Riff away the emptiness, and riff toward the joy.

About the Performers:

Nick Meryhew is an experimental musician, arts educator, improviser, and passionate home cook. Their work explores the elasticity of time and the absurdity of the mundane through a sculptural approach to found sound. Their work has been presented at Tritriangle, No Nation, MCA Chicago, the Neo-Futurists, Babycastles (NYC), Mirrorlab (Minneapolis), Experimental Sound Studio, and Roman Susan, among others. They currently perform solo and with Tallulah Bankheist, Heavy Tiny, Paradise Complete, and as a sound designer with Runaway Labs Theater. They run a silly net label called Ham Bag Records.nickmeryhew.comHambag.bandcamp.com

Andrew Tham is a writer, composer, and performer. He is a co-founder of the cassette tape label Parlour Tapes+, a member of the weirdo collective mocrep, and a theater technician with the Neo-Futurists. Andrew plays bass for Zach Morp and synthesizer for MEGA Laverne & Shirley, a local big TEEN band.

Sam Scranton is a composer/performer/artist based in Chicago. He improvises and records music with percussion and electronics. He makes evening-length tear-jerker conceptual ceremonies. He makes installations with friends that take the form of guided tours, psychedelic waiting rooms, and swarming sonic creatures.

He has presented work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences, and performance series such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Indexical, Composit, NUNC! 3, New Music Gathering, Frequency Festival, the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Outer Ear Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Borealis Festival Radio Space, WFMT, and released by Moon Glyph and Parlour Tapes+.

Sam plays music in bands: Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, Zach Moore), Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), and Physique (with Neil Quigley), with records released on Moon Glyph, Amalgam, and Shinkoyo Artists Pool.

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