hypergrace

Matt Test

Daniel Petry

This month the CLEAT Series welcomes three solo performances from hypergrace, Matt Test, and Daniel Petry. Grace grace grace (performing as hypergrace) is an artist working at the busy intersection of process philosophy, computational media systems, and cybernetics. He leverages training in cello performance to create generative sound + medja installations and performances luring encounters with perception, thinking, and feeling. Grace writes and assembles software / hardware systems with indeterminate logics aiming to create play in the unforeseeable unpredictabilities of the aesthetic event.

Matt Test is a Chicago-based composer, writer, and interdisciplinary sound artist focusing on the intersection of text, sound, and performance. As an ensemble member with the Curious Theatre Branch, one of the city's oldest fringe companies, he has created and/or helped devise a number of experimental operas, new music theatre works, and soundscapes that play in the spaces between surrealist thought games and structural absurdity.  He is a co-curator of the Chicago Laboratory for ElectroAcoustic Theatre (CLEAT) with Stephan Moore and Sam Clapp.  

Daniel Petry makes beat-driven ambient built from plinking Euclidean melodies, fuzzy bass and slow-moving pads, with fragments of film dialogue drifting over the top. The music moves between subtle club pulse and long-form immersion; rhythmic but unhurried. His sets are semi-improvised: core harmonies and vocal samples are prepared, while patterns and structure evolve live. Originally from the UK, with time spent in Berlin and now based in Chicago, Petry draws on the experimental edge of British electronic music while keeping his sound personal and understated. He has released on Third Ear Recordings and independently, and previously wrote for Resident Advisor.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door