AJ McClenon + Regina Martinez
P.M. Tummala
At our May Elastro series we’ll have a duo performance from AJ McClenon and Regina Martinez alongside a solo set from P.M. Tummala. Following these sets the three will get togehter for a trio improvisation to close out the night. Music at 8pm!
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
P.M. Tummala is a multi-instrumentalist and producer whose work explores identity and false memories as an imaginary aural companion to Indian modernism and Indo-futurism. Using instrumentation that includes synthesizers, vibraphone, shahi baaja, harmonium, electric piano, tape, and sampler, he reimagines the Hindustani, Carnatic, and Tollywood/Bollywood sounds of his childhood through a blurred lens of global musical influences that span spiritual jazz, dub, musique concrète, Tropicália, ambient, and hip-hop/vinyl culture. He has released two solo albums, Abstractions in Meera and Brindavan Mon Amour, and has collaborated on recordings and performances with Mike Weis, Chloe Yu Nong Lin, Allen Moore, Ashwaty Chennat, Shalaka Kulkarni, and Zelienople.
Regina Martinez, also known as selective listening, experiences sound as records of our connections and departures. Her ongoing experiments draw from an archive of infinitely personal recordings she relates to as soundmarks: her father's hands cleaning dried beans, drumline rehearsal after school, the flap of our clothes outside on the line, the creak of the front gate to home. Each moment becomes its own instrument, its own layer of composition, and a washing and wringing out of memory meant to be overheard like a poem again and again. The message evolves through dj sets, live performance and sound design for experimental film. Regina produces the program alluvia’s fluid for Chicago Public Media Institute’s Lumpen Radio station.
AJ McClenon is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Washington, DC, currently residing in Chicago. Alongside artistic experiences, A.J. is passionate about teaching and community collaborations with the goal that all the memories and histories that are said to have “too many Black people,” are told and retold again. To uphold these stories, AJ creates performances, installations, objects, sounds, visuals, and writings. These creations often revolve around an interest in water and aquatic life, escapism, Blackness, science, grief, US history, and the global future.
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