Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 6 PM
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave
Pay-what-you-can
The Patchbent Sessions are a meeting place and learning community for women, trans, and non-binary people. Each session features a workshop in sound technology presented by local teaching sound artists.
At this time, Patchbent Sessions are open only to women, trans, non-binary and gender expansive participants in an effort to encourage equity in sound and audio spaces. All levels welcome, no experience necessary. Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by clicking the button above.
A panel discussion on multichannel sound work with Gabi Kinlock, Kim Nucci, Regina Martinez, and Beth Bradfish, moderated by ESS engineer Kate In. Panelists will discuss artistic and technological decisions and techniques that factor into making multichannel works, featuring examples from sound systems in and outside of Chicago.
There will be time after the session to connect with the panelists and each other. Light refreshments will be provided.
About the Panelists
Gabi Kinlock (PANTY)
Brought up on transmissions from the underground, Gabi Kinlock is happy to report that hardcore will never die. Playfully peeling back the expansive layers of bass and club music across spacetime, their interdisciplinary approach to 3D sound design consists of film scores, soundbaths, mixtapes, audiovisual collage, poetry, and emceeing, and, of course, soundtracking your local ecstatic rave. Their visual and sonic work is memory-informed, texture-based, and concerned with the potential for collective release that can be found through movement and making.
Beth Bradfish
With an intention to bring her audience as close to sound as possible, Beth Bradfish composes for ensembles, orchestras as well as installations and sound objects she designs. Her work has been performed at Spectrum NYC, Constellation (Chicago), Issue Project Room (NYC) and she was selected as a featured composer in the Oscillations series of Experimental Sound Studio. Her sound installations have been featured at High Concept Labs, Internationales Musikinstitut Kunsthalle (Darmstadt, DE), and Kalamazoo Valley Museum. She has been awarded residencies at Ragdale, Chicago Artists Coalition, and Harvestworks (NYC), as well as grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago (DCASE).
Kim Nucci
Kim Nucci is an Oakland-based media artist, composer, and technologist. Kim claims to be the Pope of facebook and worships dollar slice pizza as the one true god, while living in the god(pizza)less land of California.
As a musician, they perform on electronics, modular synthesizer, and saxophone. As a visual and sound artist, they create interactive installations using architectural interventions, sculpture, arduino and other microcontrollers, idiosyncratic interactive design, painting and projections. They also VJ, and create generative and audio-reactive video art for live musical performance.
Regina Martinez
Regina Martinez, also known as selective listening, experiences sound as records of our connections and departures. Her current experiments draw from an archive of infinitely personal recordings she relates to as soundmarks: her father's hands cleaning dried beans, drumline rehearsal after school, the flap of our clothes outside on the line, the creak of the front gate to home. Each moment becomes its own instrument, its own layer of composition, and a washing and wringing out of memory meant to be overheard like a poem again and again. Her practice evolves through commissioned installations, dj sets, live performance and sound design for experimental film. Regina holds an MA in Sound Arts & Industries from Northwestern University. She currently produces the program alluvia’s fluid for Chicago Public Media Institute’s Lumpen Radio station.
About the Curator
Kate In is an audio engineer, sound designer, and musician based in Chicago. She makes fantastical worlds and moody universes with sound, using experimental studio techniques and heartfelt collaboration methods. After receiving an MA in Sound Arts and Industries at Northwestern University, Kate joined the staff of Experimental Sound Studio, a non-profit on Chicago's north side dedicated to the creative exploration of sound. She is the curator and lead organizer of Patchbent Sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I park?
Free parking is available directly in front of the ESS building (please leave space for wheelchairs/strollers), on surrounding streets like Thorndale, and as diagonal parking in the first alley directly south of ESS. Paid parking is available across the street on the west side of Ravenswood.
Are entrances accessible?
Yes. From our front Ravenswood entrance, we have a ramp for the front door. Please let us know at olivia@ess.org if you will need it so that we can be prepared for you ahead of time.
Where are the bathrooms?
There are ADA accessible bathrooms on both floors. On the first floor the bathroom is located in the northeast corner of Audible Gallery (front-most room). On the basement/garden level, the bathroom is past the common area, first door on the right.
Who can I contact with specific needs or questions?
Please contact Olivia Junell at olivia@ess.org.
Are children allowed?
The Patchbent series is most appropriate for high school-aged people and older. If you have a younger child who might enjoy this content, we trust your judgement in their ability to participate. If you lack access to childcare but would like to come to this event, contact Olivia at olivia@ess.org.