Thursday, April 26 The Expanded Field4:00–6:00 p.m. Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, 37 S. Wabash, room 508 The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Department of Sound Present: The Department of Sound and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection are proud to present The Expanded Field—an evening of sonic experimentation. Taking field recording as a starting point, this collaborative event will showcase works that demand a redefinition or reconsideration of what is one of the foundational activities in the development of sound art. The evening will feature live performances by current MFA students Eddie Breitweiser, Lindsey French, Robby MacBain, and Andy Ortmann, alongside previously recorded sound works from the Flasch Collection. The event will be accompanied by an aural exhibition of sound works on this theme, accessible through Free Radio SAIC.

Thursday, April 26

The Expanded Field
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, 37 S. Wabash, room 508 
The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Department of Sound Present:

The Department of Sound and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection are proud to present The Expanded Field—an evening of sonic experimentation. Taking field recording as a starting point, this collaborative event will showcase works that demand a redefinition or reconsideration of what is one of the foundational activities in the development of sound art. The evening will feature live performances by current MFA students Eddie Breitweiser, Lindsey French, Robby MacBain, and Andy Ortmann, alongside previously recorded sound works from the Flasch Collection. The event will be accompanied by an aural exhibition of sound works on this theme, accessible through Free Radio SAIC.

SAIC to host sound-art conference this fall On November 5 and 6, the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host an academic conference called Sound Art Theories Symposium; the event is organized by Lou Mallozzi, an adjunct professor at the school and the founder of Experimental Sound Studio. Advance registration will set you back a hundred bucks and individual panels are $20 a pop ($25 if you register on-site), but the list of presenters is impressive enough that I’d consider that a worthwhile investment. Among those giving talks will be two former Chicagoans: Gastr del Sol cofounder David Grubbs, who’s currently an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, and Seth Kim-Cohen (formerly Seth Cohen of Number One Cup and a past Reader contributor under the pen name Warren Sentence), who’s a visiting artist in the Sound Area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the author of In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art(Continuum). Also presenting are Christoph Cox, Salomé Voegelin, and Allen S. Weiss. Several programs that coincide with the conference, all produced by ESS, are free and open to the public. Olivia Block and Joseph Clayton Mills (Haptic) are creating a surround-sound installation at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, which will run from 10 AM-10 PM on Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5. A four-channel installation by Seattle sound artist Steve Peters will be in the middle of its run at the Lincoln Park Conservatory (the latest in ESS’s ongoing Florasonicseries), and an exhibition of screen prints by Eternals singer Damon Locks, inspired by Sun Ra, will be up at ESS’s Audible Gallery the weekend of the conference. Additional performances and exhibitions involving other arts organizations are also expected to come together between now and then.

SAIC to host sound-art conference this fall

On November 5 and 6, the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host an academic conference called Sound Art Theories Symposium; the event is organized by Lou Mallozzi, an adjunct professor at the school and the founder of Experimental Sound Studio. Advance registration will set you back a hundred bucks and individual panels are $20 a pop ($25 if you register on-site), but the list of presenters is impressive enough that I’d consider that a worthwhile investment.

Among those giving talks will be two former Chicagoans: Gastr del Sol cofounder David Grubbs, who’s currently an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, and Seth Kim-Cohen (formerly Seth Cohen of Number One Cup and a past Reader contributor under the pen name Warren Sentence), who’s a visiting artist in the Sound Area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the author of In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art(Continuum). Also presenting are Christoph Cox, Salomé Voegelin, and Allen S. Weiss.

Several programs that coincide with the conference, all produced by ESS, are free and open to the public. Olivia Block and Joseph Clayton Mills (Haptic) are creating a surround-sound installation at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, which will run from 10 AM-10 PM on Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5. A four-channel installation by Seattle sound artist Steve Peters will be in the middle of its run at the Lincoln Park Conservatory (the latest in ESS’s ongoing Florasonicseries), and an exhibition of screen prints by Eternals singer Damon Locks, inspired by Sun Ra, will be up at ESS’s Audible Gallery the weekend of the conference. Additional performances and exhibitions involving other arts organizations are also expected to come together between now and then.

Source: chicagoreader.com