OPTION: Sydney Spann

Description

Sydney Spann performs a version of Big Music Little Earth, a collection of songs made with voice, great highland bagpipes, baby monitors, and live electronics. They are joined by piper Scott McCawley, a long-time student and teacher of piobaireachd who performed with fluxus composer Yoshi Wada in 2016.

This performance and interview are presented in the garden at ESS, and will premiere online on ESS’s YouTube.

This event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins welcome; reservations recommended.

The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.

About Sydney Spann

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a musician based in New York. They work with synthesis, household electronics, amateur acoustic instrumentation and voice to make studio compositions and live performances. Lately their work sublimates the latent aggressions of feminized labor into anxious and beautiful music. They are one half of Iris Our with Kiera Mulhern and they collaborate with Theodore Cale Schafer, Madeline Stepien, and Michelle Luong. Previous releases include full length albums for Recital and Reading Group.

About OPTION

OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos and presented by Experimental Sound Studio. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a ‘salon’ format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform. Click here for past OPTION performances.