Thursday, May 27, 2021
7pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
Huele de Noche includes music and sound research through innovating and experimenting in celebration, especially in Brown, Black, and Queer spaces. The title refers to the Spanish name for the night-scented jessamine, which is heavily perfumed and only blooms at night. The work and the artists in the concert play with sound in conversation with histories of Black Church, soniderxs, and rave culture. Through the online streaming, we are also exploring the possibilities of online events as spaces of communal celebration. Huele de Noche was curated by Carolina Vélez Muñiz as part of the 2021 ESS Curatorial Fellowship.
LINE-UP:
7:00 pm CT Angelina Almukhametova and Dann Disciglio
7:30 pm CT Jada-Amina
8:00 pm CT Las Chikatanas
8:30 pm CT Jesús Hilario-Reyes
9:00 pm CT Marisol Mendoza
Animations by Cielo Saucedo
This is the second of three shows curated by 2021 ESS Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz. Read more about Carolina and the Fellowship here. Read essays by Carolina on each Fellow by clicking their name above.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Angelina Almukhametova and Dann Disciglio will be exploring memory as it relates to the notion of a phantom limb. Almukhametova, who's neon work is often informed by organic forms, alongside Disciglio, who uses technology to explore non-human subjects, will collaborate to create a live techno-organic performance using a neon sculpture and a tree root rhizome. The neon, which will serve as a prosthetic limb for the rhizome, will act as a hypothetical extension of the dead and displaced stump. Feedback created via the interactions between the electrical signals emanating from the neon transformer and the natural resonances of the tree root will work with and against each other to revitalize the non-human cyborg rhizome.
Angelina Almukhametova (b. Kazan, Russia) is a Chicago based neon artist whose work interfaces neon sculpture with digital technologies, analog synthesizers, and custom built software to create responsive light and sound installations and performances. By using the electromagnetic signals emanating from the neon sculptures, Almukhametova’s performances and installations seek to create immersive sensory experiences which expand the conception of neon as an artistic medium.
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Dann Disciglio is a research-oriented artist currently based in Chicago, IL. His work combines emerging digital technologies with non-human subjects (such as molds, plants, and bacteria) to create installations, sculptures, texts, performances, and sound compositions which attempt to complicate our notion of how we belong in an ecosystem. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited work and performed in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Panama City, Leipzig, and Vienna.
ig: @dann_disciglio
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Jada-Amina is a South Side Chicago born and based singer-songwriter, transgenre sound artist and interdisciplinary visual artist. Through the sample, experimental modes of instrumentation and use of their own voice, Jada-Amina explores the possibilities of gospel and alternative Black sonic architectures to exalt this moment.
Their sound searches for infinity using the hymn as compass. A seeker of rapture, they score the world they seek by reinterpreting personal and familial archives, internet findings and analog sound data. Abstracted by time and memory, this work of revival mourns and births.
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Las Chikatanas is an independent musical project by the interdisciplinary dua Frida Veloz and Samantha C. An ensemble of poetry, neo soul of dark rhythms with harmonic voices and enfolding textures. Analog-digital fusion with decolonial messages, feminisms and danceable waves. Raíz mexica.
Frida Veloz (b. 1993 Ciudad de Durango) studied Audio Engineering and Music Production in Mexico City. She currently works as an audio engineer specializing in live audio, as well as a singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and independent musician. She has collaborated in the sound engineering of festivals such as Neuma, Jazzatlán, and the Festival Internacional de Jazz en Parque Hundido. She has also supported the production of festivals like Marvin and MUTEK, as well as the sound design, audio engineering and recording of several musical theater productions, concerts, and conferences. She has performed as a singer with BIGBAND in Plaza Condesa and Jazzatlán Capital. She is also part of the collective Chingona Sound System
Samantha C. (b. 1994 Ciudad de Nezahualcóyotl) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist. She studied Communication Science at Universidad de Las Américas and Visual Arts in Facultad de San Carlos from UNAM. As a producer she brings together music, performance with industrial sounds, noise, and abstract voices. She uses digital and analog means to explore sonorous textures which form danceable and espacial power electronics. She has two albums as a soloist “Mis súper poderes vomitan ácido” and “Obsidiana” as well as a collaboration with Alfonso Liebano ”a plena obscura.” She has presented her work in places like Cuerpos Parlantes and Foro 316 Centro. Her sound pieces have been installed in Chicago, Washington, Germany, and Greece. She is also part of other collectivas such as Las Mujeres Vinileras, Chingona Sound System, and Radio Cósmica Libre.
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Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Jesús Hilario-Reyes (b. 1996, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an multidisciplinary artist with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recently a recipient of the Drawing a Blank Artist Grant and engaging in programs like ACRE Residency, and Industry of the Ordinary. Jesus Hilario-Reyes has exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, most notably at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Black Star Film Festival and Mana Contemporary. While situating their practice at the crossroads of sonic performance, new media, and expanded cinema, their iterative works examine carnival and rave culture throughout the West, to take on a necessary satirical approach to undermine the systems at play, as a means to enact mutiny and to explore futurity.
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Marisol Mendoza, also known as La Musa Mayor, is a sonidera cultural promoter who will play a live set of mostly cumbias.
Marisol is the founder of the project Musas Sonideras. The collective, which came to life in 2017, is devoted to visibilize and dignify the work of women in sonidera culture in Mexico and the US. There are 37 collaborators in Musas Sonideras between the ages of 20 and 60. They have played in different settings ranging from street parties, museums, restaurants, private parties, and markets. Musas Sonideras’ involvement in sound systems is directed towards community building; their slogan is “hasta que la sororidad se haga costumbre (until sorority becomes custom).” They are called “sonideras de la paz (peace sonideras)” because they encourage danceable events without violence.
Marisol also created Radio Musas in 2020 and is part of other collectives, like Red de Mujeres en la Música, Chingona Sound, and Mujeres Vinileras.
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The concert will include animation work by Cielo Saucedo.
Working with computer generated imagery and earth works, Cielo is invested in the precariousness of degrading ecosystems and technology. They argue a radical acceptance of our current climate crisis through disabled perspectives. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and are pursuing their MFA at UCLA. They have shown work in Chicago, Ecuador, New York, London and Los Angeles.