apologist

Itsï Ramirez

erψn temp3st

At our April Elastro series we’re excited to welcome Philadelphia artist apologist to town as they tour the midwest. We’ll first experience performances from Chicago artists Itsï Ramirez and erψn temp3st.

Rose Actor-Engel aka apologist is a Philadelphia based musician and composer. She uses synthesizer, tape and field recordings to create confessional ambient music, implementing specific rules and protocols to determine structure. She has been recording/performing as Apologist since 2018. Itsï Ramirez is a Chicago based composer. Stepping out of the naturalized preoccupation with sound as sound, she takes on the project of recovering a new music that has been forgotten.

Molecular Incantations\|/Sonic Telepathy (MIST) is an evolving sound and movement performance from erψn temp3st that explores material intimacy through vibration, resonance, and feedback. A radical integration of machine and body, MIST broaches notions of analogue cyborgism, challenging the technofascist, transhumanist ideals of efficiency, individualism, and control. In a time when the world’s landfills are overflowing with electronic waste, MIST insists on an image of the cyborg that is implicated in lineages of resource extraction, planned obsolescence, and colonial flows of trash disposal. It rejects the vision of a high-tech, robotic ubermensch as a fascistic Silicon Valley fever dream, rather envisioning the cyborg as a vibrant assemblage, a trash heap enlivened by mysterious electronic and material alliances.

We’ll get started at 8pm!

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