Sunday, June 20, 2021
7:00pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
To celebrate the release of alejandro t. acierto's album, "we continue to sustain ourselves," Parlour Tapes+ presents a streamed event featuring performances by acierto with fellow musicians on the album violist Ammie Brod and clarinetist Zachary Good.
"we continue to sustain ourselves" is an hour-long work for two contrabass clarinets, viola, percussion, and interactive media, originally performed live by acierto, Brod, Good, and Ryan Packard at Elastic Arts in 2019. Working with feedback as a broadly defined phenomenon, the work devises forms of relation and being where bodies intersect, play, and intervene on and with technological systems built as extensions of ourselves. A meditation for queers of color, feedback becomes a metaphor that articulates our orientations as it registers our proximities. It reveals itself in the space between the input and output and overwhelms us with a trace of what has always existed. Here, we are made present in the recognition of our past and in the insistence of our continuation—the ongoing loop where the past is amplified until it’s not, where the future is held under the conditions of space, and where the present is contingent on the then and there. For feedback that was previously always avoided, hushed, and excluded from audio systems, we envision its presence as a reminder to sustain our own bodies and ourselves. Though noisy in its recurrence, this feedback offers us a moment of refuge, a moment of forever, a moment of always.
ARTIST LINE-UP
alejandro t. acierto
Ryan Packard
Ammie Brod
Zachary Good
ARTIST BIOS
alejandro t. acierto is an artist, musician, and curator whose work is largely informed by legacies of colonialism found within human relationships to technology and material cultures. Hehas presented projects and screenings for the 2019 Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Issue Project Room (NYC), MCA Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Echo Park Film Center (LA), Stove Works (Chattanooga) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK), among others. He has presented multimedia performance works for the Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival (Chicago), High Zero Festival (Baltimore), the KANEKO (Omaha), and The Quarantine Concerts for ESS Chicago. Additionally, his curatorial projects have been mounted at Vanderbilt University’s Space 204, Tipton Gallery at East Tennessee State University, Coop, and online for the Wrong Biennial.
acierto has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, High Concept Laboratories, LATITUDE, Chicago Artists' Coalition, and Digital Artist Residency. A 3Arts Awardee, he received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University, an MM from Manhattan School of Music, an MFA in New Media Arts from University Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and was an inaugural Artist in Residence for Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. He is also a founding member of Ensemble Dal Niente and gallery director for TWOSIXTEEN, a platform for digital creative projects produced by those impacted by legacies of colonialism.
Zachary Good is a Chicago-based instrumentalist (clarinets and Baroque recorders), composer, and improviser. He approaches music making with a variety of perspectives, ranging from historically-informed to experimental, while working across a spectrum of genres and techniques. Zachary is clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a founding Co-Artistic Director of the performance collective Mocrep, and one-third of the clarinet/percussion/cello trio ZRL. He has frequently performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, Music of the Baroque Chicago, Manual Cinema, and Ensemble Dal Niente. He has been a featured soloist with International Contemporary Ensemble, DePaul University's Ensemble 20+, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s All Access Chamber Series. His research explores the phenomena and functionality of dyad multiphonics on the soprano clarinet. More at zacharygood.com.
Ryan Packard is a percussionist, composer and sound artist currently based in Stockholm, SE and Chicago, IL. His sound installations have been featured at the MCA Chicago, Graham Foundation, Defibrillator, Hyde Park Arts Center, Galeria Labirynt, High Concept Labs, Constellation Chicago, and Experimental Sound Studio. His compositions have been performed by Fonema Consort, Ensemble Chartreuse, Seth Parker Woods, The Morton Feldman Chamber Players, and the AndPlay Duo. As an improviser and collaborator, Ryan performs with Nelly Agassi, Dave Rempis, Brandon Lopez, Jasper Stadhouders, Nate Wooley, Oscar Jan Hoogland, ZRL (Zach Good and Lia Kohl), John McCowen, Nestle (Cyrus Pireh and Rob Lundberg), ombra di organo (Keefe Jackson and Manuel Troller), Kieran Daly, Jason Roebke, RGB (Paul Giallorenzo and Charlie Kirchen), Daniel Wyche amongst many others. He’s a member of the new music ensemble, Fonema Consort and has performed with Ensemble Dal Niente, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, MOCREP, a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble, Chicago Composer’s Orchestra, NYC experimental rock group Skeleton$, Slow Mass, V.V. Lightbody, Michael Albert Music Group, Nate Kinsella’s Birthmark and Architek Percussion Quartet as a founding member. Ryan has a masters of music from McGill University and bachelor of music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Violist and southwest native Ammie Brod is a longtime member of Chicago's Ensemble Dal Niente, working with composers from all over the world and the compositional spectrum and performing concerts from Germany to Mexico City. In 2018, she commissioned a number of works for solo viola and small ensemble for her Memento Mori program, taking inspiration from sources including visual art, renaissance-era Jewish music, and Twitter, including a section of the work on tonight's program (it's the Twitter one). Her pandemic hobbies have included painting walls, canning jam, and spending too much time with her cat.