ABZyrd

Olive Haugh

The CLEAT Series allows artists to explore spatial sound through our 16-channel CLEAT speaker system suspended in our space. Every month multiple artists present new work created specifically for the system. It is always an absolutely magical experience! This month features Dark Matter Series curator Jonathan Woods aka ABZyrd where he’ll present a new composition titled Popcorn Chop Shop. Woods will be preceded by young composer Olive Haugh who will present a new work titled Bodies in Flux. Join us for another night of wonderful spatial sound! Music shortly after 8pm.

Artist Bios

Jonathan Woods is a Chicago-based artist specializing in film/animation direction, improvised visual projection and music production. His early fascination with both surrealist and African means of expression has fueled a wide variety of unique partnerships and projects for over 30 years. Mr Woods is also co-creator of Elastic Arts Foundation's Dark Matter Residency Program & Co-founder of Auspice NOW, a music centered social practice artistry organization. Performing music as ABZyrd his frenetic, rainbow eucalyptus sonic explorations have been known to move booties in numerous films, plays and dinner theaters. On occasion he’s been spotted performing with other tuneful rabble-rousers such as Hieroglyphic Being, Angel Bat Dawid, Ben Lamar Gay, and composer Saalik Ziyad. He is a proud member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians).

Olive Haugh (they/them) is a transgender composer based in Chicago. They will be performing an experimental work titled Bodies in Flux, a mixed media piece which explores the ways that digital tools can reshape and remake our bodies. Bodies In Flux attempts to bring both the artifice and intimacies of (un)gendered bodies into focus through the sonification and distortion of videos depicting the bodies of the artist and those close to them.

$15 - Tickets Available at the Door