Over the years, the Creative Audio Archive has engaged artists, scholars, and curators in its collections. Additionally, in 2019, ESS Archives Manager Matt Mehlan began a series of Archive Dives that provided further context around items in the collections. Explore all of these deeper dives below.
The ESS staff did some digging in the Creative Audio Archive this past month, and everyone pulled out a few items that caught their ear. Enjoy listening below, and come out tonight to listen in person at middle brow as part of our CAA DJ Nights!
A DJ Night hosted by ESS Archives Manager James Wetzel at middle brow. Featuring selections from the Creative Audio Archive.
In the recent passing of Peter Brötzmann, we’ve selected some various Brötzmann recordings from the Malachi Ritscher Collection to share with you on our Soundcloud as we process the sad news.
A DJ Night hosted by ESS Archives Manager James Wetzel at middle brow. Featuring selections from the Creative Audio Archive.
Today's Dive is a special one as we memorialize the life of Harrison Bankhead, the Chicago musical legend who passed away earlier this year. Bankhead was a friend within the ESS community, and his work is archived across a number of collections in the Creative Audio Archive.
An Archive Dive featuring the works of Liof Munimula, an experimental music trio (Michael Zerang, Don Meckley, and Daniel Scanlan) who performed regularly from 1982 until 1997.
Special Edition Archive Dive: Staff Picks. To kick off a new era of Archive Dives we're bringing you a few favorites from the ESS staff, including selections featuring Vernon Reid & Laraaji; Isotope 217; Julia Holter & Olivia Block; Jim O'Rourke; Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid; and AJ McClenon, Amina Ross, & Jared Brown.
An Archive Dive playlist of things to watch, sifting through some choice - mainly music documentary - viewing from within, or related, to our collections.
This Saturday, December 4th, 2021, our current Archive Artists in Residence Every House Has a Door - led by director Lin Hixson & dramaturg Matthew Goulish - will present 5 Beginnings ESS, a new work made utilizing materials found within the Creative Audio Archive's ESS Collection.
Matthew, Lin, and I exchanged emails this past week to discuss 5 Beginnings: ESS, the culmination of their CAA residency project…
On December 4th, via ESS' The Quarantine Concerts livestream, Every house has a door will present 5 Beginnings ESS - a new work made utilizing materials found within the Creative Audio Archive's ESS Collection. Read on for a feature by Archive and Media Manager Matt Mehlan about the Every house tenure as Archive Artist in Residence, led by performance group director Lin Hixson & dramaturg Matthew Goulish.
This edition of Archive Dive brings you five tapes from the Malachi Ritscher Collection tied together by nothing else (well, no other curatorial premise...) than being housed in the same box (New Box #11) within the collection...
The Creative Audio Archive at ESS seeks your idle outdated technologies in need of a good home. We are in need of some (functional) transfer decks, and will graciously accept donations of (or funding towards) a Worldwide VHS Format VCR (Samsung SV-5000W or similar); Hi8 Video Deck; MiniDisc player; Video8 Deck; 8mm or 16mm telecine / transfer units; Mini DV Deck; Hi-Fi Cassette Deck.
As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA. In this issue, leading up to his appearance on the OPTION series March 1, we present a selection of recordings related to musician and record producer Jim O’Rourke.
As a 2020 ESS Archive Artist in Residence, the interdisciplinary artist and educator Kamau Amu Patton created "The Past & Other Dreams", a double cassette produced by the artist in collaboration with the Creative Audio Archive at ESS, using material from the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection.
In the first half of 2020 Marc Fischer of Public Collectors worked with Creative Audio Archive’s Malachi Ritscher Collection as the first remote Archive Artist in Residence.
The George E. Lewis ‘Voyager’ tape is a facsimile of the original tape, item # 11_FE_ESS, with handwritten label J-card and single sided label reading "George Lewis | Voyager, 5/10/89" from the ESS Collection of the Creative Audio Archive. It features a 27-minute performance of George E. Lewis and his pioneering interactive computer music program, Voyager.
