Make SOUND 2012
An exhibition/performance by MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients in sound art, installation and performance
Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago
Curated by Eric Leonardson, Julia A. Miller and Christopher Preissing
January 20, 2012
Opening Reception & performance: January 20, 2012 from 7 to 10 pm
ABOUT MAKE SOUND 2012
Make Sound 2012 is an inaugural partner exhibition to the National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012, and is organized in a similar fashion. MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients in sound art, installation, and performance will be honored and exhibited alongside those in Wet Paint.
Now in its first year, Make Sound 2012 will focus on Chicago-based artists, expanding to national submission-based curatorial efforts in the future.
Artists
Ethan Rose
Movements
Movements consists of a series of individually treated, electrically-powered music boxes that use the gallery wall as a resonating body. Each individual music box was physically altered by selectively bending back tines, resulting in a melodic reduction of the original composition. The altered boxes are then grouped and controlled by timers that intermittently activate different sections of the piece in order to engage a constantly shifting non-linear auditory experience.
For more information visit: www.ethanrosemusic.com
Jonny Farrow
Feed3+
Feed3+ is an audio/visual improvisation utilizing a no-input feedback system that generates the audio, and a Jitter-manipulated video feedback system that generates the visuals. The visuals create an instant score for the audio performance. Feed3+ is the sum of three interdependent feedback loops: the audio, the video, and the performer's reading and manipulation of the score.
For more information visit: www.jonnyfarrow.net
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Eric Leonardson
Eric Leonardson is a Chicago-based composer, radio artist, sound designer, instrument inventor, improvisor, visual artist, and teacher. He has devoted a majority of his professional career to unorthodox approaches to sound and its instrumentation with a broad understanding of texture, atmosphere and microtones. He is Vice President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, founder of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, and Executive Director of the World Listening Project. Leonardson is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Julia A. Miller
For the better part of a decade, Julia was a presenter and then curator of the New Music at the Green Mill concert series, along with founder George Flynn and composers Frank Abbinanti and Jeff Kowalkowski. Additionally, Julia was instrumental in the technical organization of the Chicago Composer's Forum's productions of John Cage's Musicircus at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2005) and the Chicago Cultural Center (2007). In 2011, Julia curated Articular Facet, a new series of electro-acoustic compositions and structured improvisations. The series reflected the use of ancient, adapted, or hacked technology, invented instruments and performative objects, and the incorporation of the visual and physical into the sonic.
Christopher Preissing
Christopher has played a pivotal role in the Chicago experimental music scene for the last ten years. As a past Executive Director of the Chicago Composers Forum he produced and directed two large-scale performances of John Cage's Musicircus at the Museum of Contemporary Art (acclaimed by New City as one of the top performance events of 2005) and the Chicago Cultural Center (2007). Since then he has curated and produced concerts and events throughout Chicago, including New Music PLUS Art (2008), with International Contemporary Ensemble and the Zhou Brothers, and New Music in the Gallery (2007-2009). He is currently co-curator of the Experimental Piano Series at PianoForte Foundation.
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