The Fortieth Day + Noise Crush
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson
Norman Long
Elastro A/V presents a series of evenings with audio and visual performances in the spirit of the ongoing Elastro series. The performances showcase techniques for merging acoustic and electronic sound as well as analog, practical, and digital live visual creations. This series is made possible with support from the mediaThe Foundation.
Night 3 is curated by Carol Genetti and is titled A/V Core Night! The evening will feature three live A/V sets from Fortieth Day + Noise Crush, Norman Long / Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson duo, and a set from Carol Genetti / Emily Beisel / Nick Meryhew.
Artist Lineup
Noise Crush - Lisa Slodki (Video-vhs) + The Fortieth Day - Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff (sounds)
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson (Low tech AV) / Norman Long (electronics/music)
Carol Genetti (voice/video) / Emily Beisel + Nick Meryhew (music)
Artist Bios
The Fortieth Day + Noise Crush
The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both members of the heavy-electronics band BLOODYMINDED and the doom metal band Anatomy of Habit. Reyes and Solotroff founded The Fortieth Day in 2005, and they utilize guitar, bass, and electronics to create epic, heavy, psychedelic-industrial, drone soundscapes. The duo's uniquely dense and murky music is created through an improvisational approach and their recording sessions go through heavy editing and processing, prior to their release. In early 2007, they began performing live publicly, collaborating with video artist Lisa Slodki – AKA Noise Crush – to provide a striking visual element to their performances. Slodki processes found video that she then mixes live during their performances, using a series of VCRs to superimpose seamlessly looping video. The result is a dreamlike blend of abstract, black and white images, which always seem just far away enough from the realm of being recognizable. Slodki’s approach to processing her video is closely aligned with how Reyes and Solotroff process their sound, and early on, it was decided by the duo that they would only perform live when there was the possibility of working with Slodki.
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson animates* out of devotion to slow change, and in order to remember over and over again that nothing is really stuck or alone. Every project tries to transform the violence of isolation, and celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena. Gwyneth has presented work in galleries, forests, and empty lots around the northern hemisphere, including with Roman Susan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Roots & Culture, Constellation, and 6018 NORTH in Chicago; St. Charles Projects in Baltimore; and @ptt in Geneva. She's been an artist in residence at the Experimental Sound Studio, FRISE (Germany), Mall of Found (New York), and Utopiana (Switzerland), and her work is included in collections at FRISE and the Institute of Contemporary Art Library in Baltimore. Projects in Chicago have been written about in Newcity, the Reader, Dusted Magazine, Chicago Artist Writers, and Chicago Magazine. She thinks all artist bios are deceptive. (gwynethvzanderson.com)
Norman W. Long’s practice involves walking, listening, improvising, performing, recording and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, place, ecology, culture, value, silence and the invisible. Norman Long has performed and exhibited at Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi Gupta Gallery,Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, The Renaissance Society, High Zero Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Cultural Center and 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Norman performed and toured with Angel Bat Dawid and the Brothahood, and has also performed with the Ali/Harris/Long/McKenna group, Spectralina, Todd Carter, Xris Espinoza, Carol Genetti, Damon Locks, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Namy, Cristal Sabbagh and Sara Zalek. He has released his compositions on Hausu Mountain, Reserve Matinee, LINE and Room40 labels. Anemoi is the latest ensemble release with Ishmael Ali, William Harris and Wills McKenna. His solo album, BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN was released in September 2021 on Hausu Mountain. Return and Recovery is his latest solo release on LINE.
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door