Alba Residency
The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute (SAIC). It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US.
ALBA RESIDENCY
The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute (SAIC). It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US.
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ALBA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2021: Seamus Carey (MFA, 2021)
We are pleased to announce Seamus Carey (MFA, 2021) as the 2021 Alba Sonic Arts Artist-in-Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. The Alba Residency makes all of ESS's resources and platforms available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute, with the goal of creating an immediate outlet for the skills and ideas the student has developed at SAIC, and helping to launch them into the next phase of their artistic career. It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US.
The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute (SAIC). It is the only post-graduate sonic arts residency of its kind in the US. The goal of the residency is to create an immediate outlet for the skills and ideas the student has developed at SAIC, helping to launch them into the next phase of their artistic career. The selected graduate will receive a $1,000 cash stipend and access to services and resources (overall value of over $7,500) that include the ESS recording studios, sonic arts archives, gallery, garden, and off-site performance and exhibition sites, as well as professional development assistance with grant-writing, project planning, and sustainability. The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is named after ESS co-founder Dawn (Alba) Mallozzi (1949-1999) and builds upon her longtime vision of ESS as a creative and developmental space for younger and emerging artists. The residency is purposefully open and flexible, allowing artists to work with ESS staff on an approach that best serves their artistic goals.
Seamus Carey is an artist working with sound and play and relistening and trash and technologically mediated communication and public and earfingers and wind in your ears and the infrathin and feedback and access and arduinos and stuff in bathrooms and participation and resonance and private and responsibly hoarded materials and guilt and interventions and trash cans and nostalgia and microdislocations and tropes and things that look like frogs and car horns and piles and performance and cultural capital and music and artist statements and feet and video and mislistening and hand dryers.