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Honoring Laetitia Sonami

Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and composer.

Sonami's sound performances, live-film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and objects.

Best known for her unique instrument, the elbow-length lady's glove, which is fitted with an array of sensors tracking the slightest motion of her hand and body, she has performed worldwide and earned substantial international renown. Recent projects include the design of a new instrument, the Spring Spyre, based on the application of neural networks to real-..time audio synthesis; an improvisation duo, Sparrows and Ortolans, with James Fei; and Le Corps Sonore, a fully immersive sound installation on six floors of the Rubin Museum, NYC in collaboration with Eliane Radigue and Bob Bielecki. Sonami has received numerous awards among which the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards.

Experimental Sound Studio Celebrates the Longtime Contributions of Board Treasurer Ed Herrmann

Composer/performer Ed Herrmann has composed music for dance, theater, and broadcast, created audio tours for museums throughout the country; and produced radio features on a variety of subjects. Ed currently produces podcasts for the Poetry Foundation. His sound design for the Chicago History Museum's Lincoln Transformed exhibit won the American Association of Museums Gold Award for best audio tour in the country for 2009, and his online audio guides are part of Openlands Lakeshore Preserve. Ed's Cretaceous Chorus, a sound installation for the ESS Florasonic series at Lincoln Park Conservatory, is available on CD. An album of his soundscapes, Wake Up and Hear the Roses is available from iTunes. Ed recently released a record of interstitial music inspired by live stream concerts from ESS. Listen to his music on Bandcamp below.

Artist Bios

Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Over the past decade she has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and she has championed new music throughout the world by building organizations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.

In 2013 Chase launched Density 2036, a 23-year commissioning project to create an entirely new body of repertory for flute between 2014 and 2036, the centenary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Each season as part of the project, Chase premieres a new program of commissioned music, with six hours of new repertory created to date. In 2036, she will play a 24-hour marathon of all of the repertory created in the project. Chase will release world premiere recordings the first four years of the Density cycle in collaboration with the producer Matias Tarnopolsky at Meyer Sound Laboratories in Berkeley, CA in September 2020.

Called “a player of formidable expressive gifts” by the NYT,  cellist Katinka Kleijn has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at Lincoln Center, and the Tokyo Metropolitan theater; in recital at Carolina Performing Arts and the Library of Congress; and her record STIR with Bill Mackay came out on Drag City Records. A member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary Ensemble, Kleijn enjoys a genre defying career; her composition Forward Echo for 11 improvisers premiered at the Instigation Festival, her devised work Water on the Bridge for cellos and swimming pool with Lia Kohl was presented by the City of Chicago, and she performs regularly on the Chicago free improv scene. 

Miya Masaoka is an American composer and sound artist. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement and time while foregrounding complex timbre relationships. In 2018 she joined the Columbia University Visual Arts Department as an Associate Professor, where she is the director of the Sound Art Program, a joint program with the Computer Music Center. A 2019 Studio Artist for the Park Avenue Armory, Masaoka has also received the Doris Duke Artist Award in 2013, a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan in 2016, and an Alpert Award in 2003. Her work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Park Avenue Armory. She has been commissioned by and collaborated with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Glasgow Choir, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Bang on a Can, Jack Quartet, Del Sol, Momenta and the S.E.M. Ensemble. She has a 2019 commission for an outdoor installation at the Caramoor, Katonah, New York.

Craig Marvin Taborn is an American pianist, organist, keyboardist and composer. He works solo and in bands, mostly playing various forms of jazz. He started playing piano and Moog synthesizer as an adolescent and was influenced at an early stage by a wide range of music, including by the freedom expressed in recordings of free jazz and contemporary classical music.

While at university, Taborn toured and recorded with jazz saxophonist James Carter. Taborn went on to play with numerous other musicians in electronic and acoustic settings, while also building a reputation as a solo pianist. He has a range of styles, and often adapts his playing to the nature of the instrument and the sounds that he can make it produce. His improvising, particularly for solo piano, often adopts a modular approach, in which he begins with small units of melody and rhythm and then develops them into larger forms and structures.

In 2011, Down Beat magazine chose Taborn as winner of the electric keyboard category, as well as rising star in both the piano and organ categories. By mid-2017, Taborn had released nine albums as leader or co-leader, and had appeared on more than ninety as a sideman.

Paul DeMarinis has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. His works combine interactive software, synthetic speech and noise with obsolete or impossible media. He has exhibited and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. His audio works are available from Lovely Music, Black Truffle Records and on his Bandcamp site. https://pauldemarinis.org/

Sue Slagle (stage name SUE-..C) is a video and light artist working at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 18 years she has created handmade videos and live media performances, traveling extensively in the USA and internationally. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation "instrument," she synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-..made papers, fabrics and lighting effects. Sue is the recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award and a MacDowell Fellowship. She has performed and exhibited at many national and international venues and festivals including the Library of Congress, San Francisco International Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, SFMoMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, REDCAT, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts, Pacific Film Archive, EMPAC, Ars Electronica, MUTEK, SONAR, Sonic Light, Transmediale, Marco Museum, ICA London and Laboral. She has toured extensively throughout the USA and Europe.

Veronica Anne Salinas is a writer and artist working with sound, performance, improvisation, documents, field recordings, electronics, and ambient narrative. Her work chronicles environments, mysticism, identity, and the body. She is interested in the crossroads where language meets air, sensualities, geographies, and social architecture. She is a graduate candidate in the Sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been featured in or as part of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) Latino Art Now! Conference (2019), Megapolis Audio Festival (Philadelphia, PA), Experimental Sound Studios (Chicago, IL), Chicago Design Museum (Chicago, IL), Sullivan Galleries (Chicago, IL), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), Art League Houston (Houston, TX), Alabama Song (Houston, TX), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Artpace (San Antonio, TX), Sala Diaz (San Antonio, TX), Highwire Arts (San Antonio, TX), and Cities and Memory (UK). Her essay, “Sounding La Raza Cósmica” is featured in the anthology Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (2019) by Routledge and an interview with Annea Lockwood is forthcoming in Women in Sound zine (May 2020).

Kamau Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton received his MFA from Stanford University in 2007 and received a degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. His work was shown in 2012 as part of Pacific Standard Time and in 2013 as part of the Machine Project Field guide to LA Architecture. In 2016 Patton presented research in Stockholm, Sweden, as a part of The Shape of Co- to- Come symposium and exhibition. Patton presented a series of performances as part of Projects 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps at the Museum of Modern Art in August 2017. In September 2017, he installed an iteration of his ongoing project, Tel, at the Tang Museum. In 2019, Patton’s public art commission with the Bowman Montessori School in Palo Alto, CA, was open to the public. Patton is a 2020 Creative Capital Grant Awardee.

Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves components of sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce brilliant electroacoustic collages. The Chicago native’s true technique is giving life to an idea while exploring and expanding on the term Americana. Inspired by the vibrant experimental music scene of Chicago, and a three-year residency in Brazil, Gay collaborates with some influential figures in the world of music, dance, and visual arts including George Lewis, Itiberê Zwarg, Onye Ozuzu, Qudus Onikeku, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Catherine Sullivan, Mike Reed, Joshua Abrams, Celso Fonseca, Tomeka Reid, The Black Monks of Mississippi, Bixiga 70 and the Association of the Advancement of Creative Musicians. His musical influences derive from his collection of experiences in all of the Americas and the gathered data channeled by technology and its amplifying accessibility. Embracing international vision while remaining true to his roots, Gay’s creative output aligns with the honest notion that he only knows how to be a man from the South side of Chicago.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art.  He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy. Damon performs solo and also with The Eternals, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra and his own group Black Monument Ensemble who released their debut album summer of 2019. 

Special Presentations

Persistent light of a Lenticular memory (2020)

Zeena Parkins: harps and electronics

Laetitia Sonami: the Spring Spyre

Performing July 18, 2020 at 9pm CT

While our starting point was a shared interest in topographical maps, we ended up digging below the surface into the ground. There we found the beginnings of a new vocabulary, as we moved through masses of sound and a cast of sonic characters. The structure of the piece is akin to the mechanism of vision; the outside world merging into a focal point where signals are transformed, reinvented and dispersed to the brain. This is Laetitia and Zeena’s first collaboration together and they had been preparing for a premiere performance at the Center for New Music at Mills College last April.

Video excerpt Sue-C.

Zeena Parkins: electro-acoustic composer, pioneer of contemporary harp performance. Parkins re-imagines both the acoustic harp and an evolution of her original electronic ones, through the use of expanded playing techniques, preparations and custom designed processing. Parkins is a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Composition. New projects include a LP release with Jeff Kolar and their duo project SCALE on Two Rooms and an upcoming release of Glass Triangle with Ryan Sawyer and Mette Rausmussen on Relative Pitch Records.

Laetitia Sonami is a performer and installation artist. She builds personal electronic instruments. After twenty-five years performing with her lady's glove, she created the Spring Spyre which adapts the Machine Learning software created by Rebecca Fiebrink to the control of real-time audio synthesis. Three small audio pick ups are activated by springs; while you never actually hear the springs, the audio signals generated by touching the springs are analyzed for feature extraction. The data is sent to the ML software which in turn controls the synthesis in Max-MSP. The resulting synthesis can be adjusted to range from stable to highly unpredictable behaviors. Recent projects include Le Corps Sonore a fully immersive installation in collaboration with Eliane Radigue and Bob Bielecki on six floors of the Rubin Museum, a collaboration with James Fei, Sparrows and Ortolans, and her solo work, of Lands and Lines. Upcoming projects include a new live film with Sue-C, the third in a series. 

100 Millions

Paul DeMarinis, Laetitia Sonami, SUE‐C

Performing July 17, 2020 at 9pm CT

100 Millions is a new collaborative work from artists Paul DeMarinis, Laetitia Sonami and SUE‐C. Loosely based on Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics”, the live performance focuses on the dispersion and reception of signals, self-­preservation and fabricated realities. It takes 100 million years for another galaxy to receive a signal transmitted from earth, at which point one's intentions may have changed, then another 100 million for the comments to come back ‐ this on good days, not counting all the galaxies where signals just get lost or ignored. Inspired by the possibilities of performing from their studios, Paul resuscitated his Serge synth, Laetitia her PAIA/Curtis chip synth, together with early Yamaha and Casio keyboards, Paul's handcut picnic plate records and Laetitia's latest instrument, the Spring Spyre. The musical collaboration is streamed to SUE‐Cs studio where her live hands-­‐on manipulation of imagery creates an accompanying visual story. 100 Millions tests the boundaries of today's communication systems, and possibly tomorrow's. 100 Millions is the first collaboration between these three artists. DeMarinis and Sonami created and performed Mechanization Takes Command which was premiered at Ars Electronica in 1991. SUE‐C and Sonami’s two live film performance I.C.You and Sheepwoman, were performed in venues across the United States and Europe in 2006-­‐2010.