Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
ARTIST LINEUP & SET TIMES
7:00pm CT - ABZyrd
7:30pm - Oli Harris
8:00pm - Dr. Adam Zanolini
ARTIST BIOS
ABZyrd (aka Jonathan Woods) is an enigmatic Multi-instrumentalist who’s frenetic rainbow eucalyptus Sonic explorations have been known to move booties in numerous films, plays and dinner theaters. On occasion he’s been spotted performing at various Hipster hangouts such as the 2020 Zero High festival, Elastic Arts, Constellation Chicago & the Reva & David Logan Center with other tuneful rabble-rousers such as Hieroglyphic Being, Angel Bat Dawid, Ben Lamar Gay, and the late composer Saalik Ziyad. His highly anticipated new album “They Shoot Producers Don’t They” is forthcoming on the Auspice Now label.
www.soundcloud.com/abzyrd
IG: @abzyrdsonics
A descendant of two migrations fleeing US imperialism that converged on Cleveland, OH, experimental sound artist and activist, Oli Harris, is a cellist, improviser, composer, and visual artist whose work is rooted in their Black American and Latinx heritage, Afrofuturism, and queerness. With a deep commitment to social justice, Oli creates and interprets works that embody principles of radical honesty, self-love, and equity. They are enthusiastic about collaborating across genres and mediums and have played alongside dancers, visual artists, actors, and singer-songwriters, including regular collaborations with their brother, writer Bernard E. P. Harris.
Adam Zanolini: I am a multi-instrumentalist, arts organizer, and ethnomusicologist living and working in Chicago. I am the Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago, and former Associate Director of Arts for Art, presenter of the annual Vision Festival of avant-jazz in New York. I am a co-founder of the Participatory Music Coalition and a current member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). I received a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2016. My highest ambition is to be a community musician: to cultivate and share knowledge through music in order to help heal, strengthen, and empower the Black community.