Renowned English saxophone player and sound artist John Butcher will duet with ESS Director Lou Mallozzi (turntables, CD players, feedback).
Experimental trio Haptic will perform Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, composed by Michael Pisaro specifically for the group. The piece, inspired by recent hypotheses regarding the electromagnetic character of Saturn's Rings, features an 88-note piano "melody" that is fractured by a series of 13 concentric "rings"—sine tones, radio static, percussion and other elements—that cycle around this central source.
We will dive into advanced hardware hacking techniques, including a primer on how to read and write electronics schematics, and a tutorial on assembling and employing homemade sequencers to control and trigger your devices.
Students are required to have basic soldering and Circuit Bending skills, a basic understanding of electronics components, and an advanced understanding of oscillators OR to have attended the beginning and intermediate workshops. Students should bring a couple electronic devices to be triggered by their new sequencers.
$40/35 students & ESS members
Index Filicum borrows its name from two exhaustive catalogs of fern species published by botanists Thomas Moore and Carl Christensen during the Victorian Era, when a strange obsession with ferns—pteridomania—ran rampant. The work is derived from an inventory list of all of the species currently housed in the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room. Peters conscripted four vocalists to improvise melodic lines over drones derived from the resonant frequencies of the space, using the Latin names of the pteridophytes present as lyrical content, while their common names are quietly whispered in the background.
