OSCILLATIONS presents concerts by artists selected from submissions received in response to an open call for proposals. The resulting line-ups are remarkably diverse, featuring emerging and established artists working in contemporary chamber music, improvisation, broadcast, installation, electronic music, and more.
OSCILLATIONS presents Caesar Gorgeous and n/shrike, two artists pushing the boundaries of experimental rap, avant pop, and influential contemporary genres. Caesar Gorgeous plays tracks from his album Perceptions. n/shrike performs a set of dark electronic music driven by automation, voice, and programming akin to Jenny Hval, FKA Twigs and Meredith Monk.
Visda Goudarzi and Artemi-Maria Gioti present Soundsourcing, a participatory performance for audience and two laptop performers based on processing sound generated in real time. The Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists (SoVISA) will perform a composition by Tommy Carroll titled The Chaos of Convenience, a sonic critique of the gig or app-based economy.
P.M. Tummala presents a new sound and video piece influenced by Indian Modernism and Indo-Futurism with tamboura, santoor, tabla, swarmandal, and synthesize. Turntablist Pedro Lopes performs improvisations in the spirit of free jazz.
OSCILLATIONS presents performance artists Jenna Boyles and Erica Gressman, performing with handmade and hacked instruments and wearables for the first concert of the 2020 series.
In the final evening of Oscillations performances, composer, musician, and puppeteer Divyamaan Sahoo will present his new work “Flatland” and Les Chanteuses du Rien (Elaine Lemieux, Hanna Brock, and Sara Zalek) will present an immersive improvisation utilizing the entire ESS building.
In the second concert from the Oscillations series, KG Price will create new polyphonic compositions using turntables. In the second set, Riley Leitch and Kelley Sheehan present their evolving project zP42, a site specific improvisation utilizing max msp.
Eduardo Rosario will present his open form composition entitled On Circulation, followed by Ben Roidl-Ward and Ted Moore with a new work exploring multimedia performance.
Noisée le Seque is an outsider performance artist and DIY noise musician. She used to bury cassette tapes in the DIY basements where she would perform with her cast of salvaged hybrid electronic instruments. Noisée le Seque (born Ruth Edwards) furiously forages the city for electronic equipment that could be broken into and hacked for their lurking electronic sounds. Noisée then transforms her instruments into fantastical hyper-dimensional hybrids - part sculpture, part machine, part animal.
Ben Zucker will present an experimental/performance podcast à la Radiolab. He'll be utilizing Max/MSP to alter his own voice/other voices so he can talk with himself. This performance and its recording will be used as a springboard for future performance. The recording of the ESS performance will be part of an expanded series or set where the recordings could be used as material as part of future performances, so that episodes of the podcast, in hopes that it gets so far, begin to fold in on themselves as themes and material collide.
Rebecca Himelstein's (supercollider) and Billie Howard's (violin) work offers expressions of emotional extremes as a means of re-experiencing and making meaningful their affective spaces. Through the composition of close and shifting frequencies, extreme dynamics, and over or undersaturation, they compose visceral experiences of the depth, density and complexity of disorientation, destruction, anger, loneliness, vertigo, and awe through synthetic and acoustic sound.
Hayden Beck will be presenting a new work for an amplified, live-processedprepared piano soundboard featuring lfo modulated radio, small motors, speakers, and telephone pickups.
Percussionist Diego Espinosa presents a program of collaborative compositions—all Chicago premieres.
Alejandro Acierto performs 'Transmit,' a performance installation for voice and breath mediated through an 8-channel speaker system in multiple rooms. // Allen Moore's work converses with the signifiers of African American and popular culture, bringing to view the underlying themes of our racial and emotional experiences. Moore creates experimental sounds and objects that parallel his own biographical narrative, casting inverted recordings (graphite and adhesive) from popular vinyl records from his childhood.
Anil Çamci's 'Temas,' which generates purely electronic sounds, stochastically traverses the fine line between the organic and the synthesized, forming contacts with representationality. // Focus Group LLC is a new ensemble of musicians formed by composer Ethan T. Parcell to perform Parcell's long-form performance texts and text-based works by epochal composers-poets. The group seamlessly fuses a rich acoustic drone-centric sound and acute attention to detail with a theatrical gusto to accompany the spoken and sung centerpieces of their repertoire. The music takes inspiration from the music-theatre of Robert Ashley, John Cage, and other composer-performers and distills it into a intense, almost private-seeming series of meditations on language, singing, and the creation of sound.
Rested Field is a Boston-based experimental trio, invested in exploring alternative modes of music-making that integrate both deterministic and improvisatory strategies. Taking their name from agricultural allegory, Rested Field fosters an interdisciplinary action, striving to cultivate meeting-places for the creative practices of its participants, collaborators, and peers. Rested Field is Chuck Furlong (clarinet, electronics), Clifton Ingram (guitar, electronics), and Daniel Lewis (percussion, electronics). // JCSpaceRadio will present a frequency sculpture using light, live radio broadcast, and movement scores exploring electromagnetic energy at the physical level. Part performance lecture, part dance, and part meditation – we will put you in our sonic womb and hold you close.
OSCILLATIONS enters its third year with a stunning lineup of artists from across the US, all innovators in their craft who are working across disciplines to create unclassifiable works that challenge listeners' perceptions of sound, music, space, and time. The artists were selected by a panel composed of ESS staff members and artists featured in last year's OSCILLATIONS series, from a very competitive group of submissions we received in response to an open call for proposals.
OSCILLATIONS enters its third year with a stunning lineup of artists from across the US, all innovators in their craft who are working across disciplines to create unclassifiable works that challenge listeners' perceptions of sound, music, space, and time. The artists were selected by a panel composed of ESS staff members and artists featured in last year's OSCILLATIONS series, from a very competitive group of submissions we received in response to an open call for proposals.
OSCILLATIONS enters its third year with a stunning lineup of artists from across the US, all innovators in their craft who are working across disciplines to create unclassifiable works that challenge listeners' perceptions of sound, music, space, and time. The artists were selected by a panel composed of ESS staff members and artists featured in last year's OSCILLATIONS series, from a very competitive group of submissions we received in response to an open call for proposals.
The selected artists in OSCILLATIONS 2014 represent a gamut of disciplines, including generative and conceptual sound art, contemporary chamber music, audio/video synthesis, and improvisations and performances by virtuoso instrumentalists and vocalists.
The selected artists in OSCILLATIONS 2014 represent a gamut of disciplines, including generative and conceptual sound art, contemporary chamber music, audio/video synthesis, and improvisations and performances by virtuoso instrumentalists and vocalists.
The selected artists in OSCILLATIONS 2014 represent a gamut of disciplines, including generative and conceptual sound art, contemporary chamber music, audio/video synthesis, and improvisations and performances by virtuoso instrumentalists and vocalists.
The selected artists in OSCILLATIONS 2014 represent a gamut of disciplines, including generative and conceptual sound art, contemporary chamber music, audio/video synthesis, and improvisations and performances by virtuoso instrumentalists and vocalists.
OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.
OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.
OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.
OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.
