Caldera
Jeffrey Gardner
Bliss Point
The CLEAT Series focuses on work composed for the 16-channel speaker system in our space, allowing audiences to experience different approaches to spatial audio. May’s edition features an installation from series curator Stephan Moore titled Caldera, a new work from series curator Sam Clapp titled Bliss Point, and a piece from Jeffrey Gardner that focuses on field recordings from their job as abortion clinic safety escort. Every month is an exciting opportunity to see our room transformed from the more common concert stage format. Join us!
Artist Bios
Jeffrey Nils Gardner will be exploring the experience of abortion clinic escorts in Chicago through field recording, interview, music and voice. They are a director and sound artist whose creative practice involves immersive narrative worlds, queer identities, contrapuntal voices, and small moments between fictional and real people. Jeffrey’s audio work can be heard in podcasts like Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery (winner of the 2021 BBC award for best audio fiction podcast), Flash Forward, The Magnus Archives, Phoebe Reads a Mystery, Our Fair City, the Strange Case of the Starship Iris, Stellar Firma, Brimstone Valley Mall, and more. Outside of podcasting, they have taught Postproduction sound for Northwestern's Radio, Television and Film department and in the Dance and Drama department at Kenyon College, and are an escort for the Illinois Choice Action Team (ICAT), who work to protect abortion access at medical centers in Chicago and the suburbs.
Bliss Point is an audiovisual work in progress by Sam Clapp, an artist and arts worker living in Chicago.
Caldera 16-channel sound installation by Stephan Moore - A sequence of spatial audio vignettes, composed of the readymade sounds of non-musical objects recorded up-close at high resolution, played back at reduced speed as a way of zooming in on their temporal qualities and rendering them slightly less impermanent and ephemeral, sometimes played without alteration and sometimes filtered through layers of processing, several copies of similar sounds and processes distributed in space sometimes to create a virtual scene and sometimes to simply create an effect of a "multiple," only barely hinting at a narrative structure, and constructed via a generative software process, on-the-fly, so as to be continually changing without repetition. Caldera was created in March 2023 for the Sound Art Gallery at the Sound Studies Institute at the University of Alberta, as part of an artist residency, and has been adapted for the CLEAT system.
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door