Saturday, February 27
7:00-10:00pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5 suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
pt.fwd (@pt.fwd) presents an evening of performances by sonic artists, musicians, and composers from Central Illinois and beyond.
pt.fwd is a non-profit program that presents performances of contemporary music and sonic arts in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
Performance Line-Up:
7:00pm CT - Yea Big (Stefen Robinson)
7:30pm - Jamie Monck
8:00pm - Molly Jones
8:30pm - Sonic Insurgency Research Group
9:00pm - Ryan Paluczak + j a r s
9:30pm - TBA
Performance Descriptions:
Yea Big (Stefen Robinson) - Bloomington, IL
Solo improvisations. Yea Big is Stefen Robinson (@stefenrobinson), sometimes solo, sometimes in collaboration. Stefen is a father, partner, teacher, multi-instrumentalist music-maker, Buddhist pacifist-anarchist, tree-admirer, who resides in Bloomington, IL. The sounds of Yea Big run the gamut from hip-hop to electro-acoustic compositions to free-improvisation, with recent work focusing on the latter.
Jamie Monck - Louisville, KY
Works by Gulli Bjornsson (@gulligitar) and Cassie Wieland (@cassie.wieland) from Monck's "dark is a way" project for electric guitar. Jamie Monck (he/him/his) (@jamiemonck) is a classical guitarist based in Louisville, Kentucky. His practice primarily concerns pieces written for him, and underloved works of the guitar repertoire.
Molly Jones - Chicago, IL
Molly Jones (@molly_e_jones) an improviser, composer, and lover of sounds based in Chicago. Her compositions range from chamber works to graphic scores to electroacoustic environments for improvisation. In 2019, she premiered a multimedia opera with her new baby company, Untoward Co. Jones is increasingly interested in making art that incorporates multiple senses and multiple media, though sound is typically her starting point. She hopes to achieve art that meditates, encouraging openness and receptivity for the audience as well as during the process.
Sonic Insurgency Research Group
Ground Unsettle Surround, initially made for the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (Portland, ME), assembles a mix of experimental sonic performance, archival political speech, field recordings, and dialogue engaging various ecologies of history, thought, and theory around #Landback, Decolonize Zhigaagoong (Chicago), All the Monuments Must Fall, #Defundthepolice, and #Policefreeschools.
Sonic Insurgency Research Group (SIRG) is Josh Rios (@realitycheckrios) + Matt Joynt (@muttjoynt) + Anthony Romero (@t.romes). Their critical performance and exhibition practices have been featured and presented at The Luminary (St. Louis), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), and through the the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), among others.
Ryan Paluczak + j a r s - (St. Louis, MO and Hamilton, Ontario)
j a r s + Ryan will be exhibiting textural guitar musings in conjunction with video that features bold costumage and provocative performance.
j a r s (@jarshooch) is a hairy creature born in the northern outpost of Winnipeg, and resides in the industrial metropolis of what is currently known as Hamilton, Ontario. j a r s enjoys making queer and weird thing-objects, performances, and videos, and is currently working on several video game projects with their partner Resni.
Ryan Paluczak (@ryan.paluczak) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, craftsman, and musician from the woods of Missouri. They currently reside in St. Louis where they practice woodworking. Ryan enjoys hiking, natural light, cnc machines, power tools, mushroom hunting, horticulture, and manual labor.