Throughout the spring, ¼” and XLR level ESS members have the incredible opportunity to experience “Living Room Pieces,” a sound installation designed to live with you in your home created by Michael J. Schumacher. Read an interview with Schumacher about his practice and this unique installation project.
Read MoreESS Co-Directors Olivia Junell and Alex Inglizian sit down with Mike Sugarman on his podcast Reimagining the Internet, which is part of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. The sixth and final feature is an interview with Lalit, a Brooklyn, NY based DJ and producer. Read on to hear their musings on spirituality, working with La Monte Young, and starting the Xiao Ma Party Controllers collective.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. In this edition, we’ll get to know Mona Evie, a Hanoi-based collective whose experimental hip hop and sound collage textures draw from influences ranging from JPEGMAFIA to Otomo Yoshihide.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. This is an interview with Brooklyn-based composer and artist Robert Ouyang Rusli, who makes experimental rap as OHYUNG. They have scored films that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, LA Film Festival, among others, and have released music with the UK-based label Chinabot.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. Here, we introduce Hwi Hwang, a Korean audiovisual artist who releases music as HWI and participates in an artist collective called eobchae.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the Asian diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. This article will introduce Xamd, the solo project of Kazutaka Sawa, who also makes music as one-half of the electronic duo phai.
Read MoreLeading up Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. The first interview of six is with Victoria Yam, performing as rEmPiT g0dDe$$; she describes finding a rave community in Singapore, the working class background behind her moniker, opening for Dis Fig in Thailand, and more!
Read MoreEAT DIS is a dance music netlabel and collective established in 2018. Originally envisioned as a party series in Detroit, the concept pivoted after founder DJ Girl moved to Chicago. Blossoming from a group chat to a full-blown label, community, and family, EAT DIS and its deeply-online presence flourished during the pandemic. We talked to the six performing members at the upcoming TQC on September 23 to get to know them better before the show.
Read MoreAs a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 May Archive Dive newsletter features the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection and The Bridge.
Read MoreAs a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 April Archive Dive newsletter features radio program ‘Sounds from Chicago’.
Read MoreAs a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 March Archive Dive newsletter features Lisa Mezzacappa.
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