Featuring:

Les Fleur Du Mal

Les Fleurs Du Mal is the solo project of Chicago artist Sarah Leitten. Les Fleurs Du Mal's music is intended to transport the listener to another astral plane. Using field recordings, saw, accordion, hand bells, and toy piano Les Fleurs Du Mal sends the listener through a wormhole of sound. Haunted by spirits of the past and future Les Fleurs Du Mal strives to conjure the unearthly vibrations the universe.

Matthew Wylder

bee hives and asandcastle whispering into to friendly jars! metal, wood, bones and rust,.....j or electrical sounds and chattering tunes. smiling for a winking drink. gum metal.,,,,,,,,,

Lincoln Johns

Lincoln Johns is a solo project from Chicago musician Bill Tucker. Substantially focused on the orchestration created using an electric guitar and loop pedal Bill improvises movements and soundscapes that can at once be ambient to harsh. He will also be experimenting with rhythms using vintage keys and manipulating other percussions with electronics.

City Harvest Black

City Harvest Black is the solo noise of Joel Dow. Using a suitcase full of knobs, wires, and amplified found objects, CHB weaves between dark ambient atmosphere and harsh noise, with a steady hand to open the gate between worlds.

Chris Marshall and the Chris Marshall Dancers

LEROY JENKINS ASKS WRONG WAY WOOTEN "ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?"

An introduction to the Wrong Way with Chris Marshall and the Chris Marshall Dancers

Leroy Jenkins: 1932-2007 Chicago composer, free jazz and experimental violinist. Member of the Association of Creative Musicians.

Wrong Way Wooten: Legendary backwards bicyclist who I met in Florida in 1985.

"Are you experienced?" Question asked by guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the 1960's.

This piece will introduce the Wrong Way Violin method and will touch upon the implications of this approach. The Wrong Way takes the violinist off the paved road of clear notes and familiar sounds and onto the rough overgrown path and dark trackless forests of noise.

The following passage from Theodore Levin's book "Where Rivers and Mountains Sing, Sound, Music and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond," (Indiana University Press, 2006) may make this approach clearer:

"If you pick up snow, pack it into a snowball and throw it, it can go quite far. But if you scoop up some loose snow and toss it, no matter how much force you exert, the snow scatters. Sound is like that. In European music, sound is packed compactly into discreet pitches, with the fundamental frequency and overtones all perceived as one. But Tuvan music is like loose snow and the overtones are like snow spray."

So, whereas notes are like points, noise is like area. It has a dimensionality that can be explored. We will journey in this area together and see what we find.

Jimi Hendrix was an epochal American explorer in this region. His soaring airborne sensibilities will guide us in our search for what I believe to be a region of innate human song hidden in nebulous noise.

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