Please join us for a night of sounds and sights on the CLEAT 16-channel speaker system!
SPECTRALINA is the audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp, collaborators, lovers and magicians. Working in an improvised format, the goal of Spectralina is to create an image-sound relationship that treats each medium as equal, resulting in performances in which projection and sounds come together as visual music.
DAN BITNEY (American b. 1964) is a multi instrumentalist, improviser, sound designer, composer, bird watcher, gardener, lover and is still learning what it could mean to be a human being. He is part of the musical group Tortoise. In addition to Tortoise Dan is involved with many musical projects, Isotope 217, Bumps, Spectronix, A Grape Dope, and Ghost Rest to name a few. As one half of the duo Spectralina, Dan uses a computer, synthesizers, drums, voice and analog processors to improvise with sounds and images.
SELINA TREPP (Swiss/American, b. 1973) is an artist who works across disciplines. Finding a balance between the intuitive and conceptual is a goal, living a life of adventure is a way, embarrassment is often the result. “If in doubt be radical” is the best advice she ever. In Spectralina Selina sings and plays the videolah, her instrument that creates animated projections in realtime.
Veronica Anne Salinas will present a new piece (In Ear) In Air, a neurophonic experience designed for the 16-channel CLEAT system. The piece works with healing tones, known as solfeggio frequencies, that work the islands, caverns, and strange curves in the mind. The audience is invited to experience "(In Ear) In Air" by slowly moving around the room in order to explore the myriad sound shapes that arise from the interaction between sound and space.
She is a Chicago-based sound artist, writer, editor, and Deep Listener. Her work explores artistic research through sound, text scores, performance, improvisation, geomancy, field recordings, archives, soundwalks, and experimental narratives. She is currently studying at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a teaching artist with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MWSAE) and is the digital editor for the Oxford American.
Crystal Squirrel is a composer/improvisor of electronic music ranging in styles including but not limited to experimental soundscapes, ambient, minimalism, and beat driven maximalism. He is a video producer with an experimental approach to the media, making hundreds of videos of his cat, backyard creatures, and commutes with his music as the soundtrack. He is one of the founding members of the multimedia performance group PowerPoint with James Edgar Bell, Jenny Schrider, and Jeffrey Weeter and the multimedia duo Fire & Ice with Jeffrey Weeter. As well, he has collaborated with various artists composing soundtracks for video works and performance.
$15 - TIckets Available at the Door