seah

Hedra Rowan

Luxate

At our September edition of the CLEAT Series we’ll experience three pieces of spatial audio from solo performers. Visiting artist seah's project Conduits of the Hydrosphere was created during a 10 year artistic investigation into what it is like to be a body of water. The project is rooted in critical feminist posthumanism, new materialism, and the somatic movement modalities (butoh, body weather laboratory, and noguchi taiso) which seah has been training in for nearly 2 decades. These experimental movement inquiries often draw from the noguchi taiso idea that the human body is a water bag and exercises are cultivated to feel/experience this in order to change the way a dancer initiates movement. What began as a dance project slowly morphed into sound and video as seah began experimenting with wearing cameras and microphones while dancing out in the field.For this presentation on the CLEAT, seah pulls sounds from the compositions to re-contextualize them for the system while simultaneously creating new textures during the live performance.

Luxate is the improvisational electronics project of Kenneth Tarek Sabbar, a Moroccan-American sound artist born in Kenosha, WI. His body of works covers of range of approaches—looping analog tape, techno constructed through modular synthesis, live-coding generative ambience, or granular re-synthesis of recorded acoustic instruments. Though disparate in his process over the years, the through-line is a careful construction of detailed textures—a “loud softness” that can be both confrontational but also demanding of a closer listen.

Hedra Rowan is a computer musician in Chicago. She runs Bodymilk, a concert series and tape label. In addition to solo work, she plays with the band Bimbo Rococo, and the duos Tallulah Bankheist, Hell & the High School, and Squonk. For this set, she will improvise computer sounds on 16 channels.

Music at 8pm!

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