The Chicago Metamorphic Song Relay
Saturday, December 14 at 8PM
at Experimental Sound Studio
A Worldwide Metamorphe Lieder Project
The Chicago Metamorphic Song Relay is a tentacular collaborative project exploring musical memory, cultural meaning, and creative interpretation. The project was incubated by Damon Locks and Katherine Young.
In the first phase of the project, Damon and Katie select a song, which they interpret into each of their musical languages. At the end of a short session, they record a version of the song. This recorded version of the song is used as the starting point for a second musical collaboration. In phase two, Katie and Damon share the song - in its new version - with another musicians and invite them to interpret the song into their musical language. At the end of that session, a new version of the song was recorded. This recorded version is again being used it as the starting point for the next musical collaboration….And so the relay continues.
Eventually, the song will pass through the ears and imaginations of ten Chicago musicians. The project concludes with a celebratory concert event at Experimental Sound Studio on Saturday, December 14. An improvised meditation on the song, the concert will offer the participants the opportunity to come together and work with the musicians in the project that they didn’t work with before.
This program is presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut.
Katherine Young makes electroacoustic music using expressive noises, curious timbres, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic physicality of sound, shifting interpersonal dynamics, and tensions between the familiar and the strange. As an improviser, Katherine amplifies her bassoon and employs a flexible electronics set up for solo and collaborative performances. The LAPhil’s Green Umbrella series, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW, Ensemble Dal Niente, Third Coast Percussion, Spektral Quartet, Weston Olencki, Nico Couck / Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Fonema Consort, and others have commissioned her music.
She’s excited about coming-soon projects with Lucy Dehgrae for Resonant Bodies Festival, WasteLAnd and RAGE, Distractfold Ensemble’s Linda Jankowska,Callithumpian Ensemble, and Yarn/Wire. She’s recently releasing new music this year with Michael Foster & Michael Zerang, Wet Ink, and a new album with Amy Cimini (as Architeuthis Walks on Land) is in the works for 2020.
Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project working at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. Last year he operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. He recently became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. Currently he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.
For more information visit: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/chi/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21620389
