Saturday, June 26, 2021
6:00pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5+ suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)

Archive Dive Broadcast: featuring recordings from the Studio Henry Collection and an exclusive interview with Wayne Horvitz.

ABOUT THE STUDIO HENRY COLLECTION

The Studio Henry Collection features recordings from New York City between 1979 to 1983 revolving around Studio Henry, a space organized by Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, M E Miller, and Carolyn Romberg - but including recordings from important venues of the time (CBGBs, Inroads, Soundscape) and visionary musicians of our time like Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Laraaji, Vernon Reid, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori and many more.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE AUDIO ARCHIVE

The Creative Audio Archive (CAA) is a Chicago based center for the preservation and investigation of innovative and experimental sonic arts and music. CAA is an initiative of the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), a non-profit sonic arts organization founded in 1986 for the production, promotion, and preservation of innovative approaches to the sonic arts, including music in its many forms, audio art, radio art, sound poetry, sound installation, and intermedia, performative, and cinematic disciplines in which sound is a major component.

CAA was formed in response to growing concerns over the general state of historical preservation of non-mainstream audio, in particular, recordings, print, and visual ephemera related to avant-garde and exploratory sound and music of the last five decades.

CAA is therefore conceived as a center to safeguard volatile materials, to transfer them to accessible and stable media, to catalogue and cross-reference these materials, and to make them accessible for study and, where feasible, presentation to the public at large. CAA seeks to bring together various existing collections and, where appropriate, to keep these collections intact as autonomous "sub-archives."

As each archive is processed, transferred, cataloged and encoded, their respective finding aid is updated on this website. Access to the collection is open to the public by appointment. To schedule an appointment or request access to materials, please email: matt@ess.org.