The final Elastro of 2024 will host three sets of electro-acoustic performance. Choir Siren is an experimental electro-acoustic duo from Louisville, KY, made up of TJ Cole (synthesizer & processed vocals) and Emily Ravenscraft (processed violin). Both classically trained, they mix improvisation with live processing to create unpredictable, immersive performances that break the rules of traditional music. Their sound pulls from a mix of avant-garde classical, ambient, and noise, but it’s always evolving, changing with each show depending on the space and the vibe.
Edward Breitweister will perform ‘Ecotonus For ARP-2500 synthesizer and computer’. Using the works of pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue (b. 1932) as a point of departure, Ecotonus draws from improvisations that he recorded on the ARP-2500 that was custom-built in 1971 for the Electronic Music & Recording Studio at Washington University. The 2500 was Radigue's primary instrument and is known for its uniquely noisy "matrix switch" design, which can result in quirky, unstable interaction between sounds. While improvising, Breitweister sought simple sounds that would behave unpredictably and evolve into unexpected complexity through the beauty of this rare machine.
In their new collaborative project, Liz Flood & Hunter Whitaker-Morrow use methods of radio and television scanning to create diffusion, slippage, and emergent signification.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Edward Breitweiser is an Illinois-based artist, musician, electronic instrument builder, and writer who creates moments of sonic life. Spanning improvised and composed music, electronic instrument design, installations, and non-profit administration, Breitweiser’s projects embrace the contrasts between ecology and technology, solo and collective, clarity and density, DIY and infrastructure, stasis and surprise, simplicity and complexity. Breitweiser founded and serves as Director of pt.fwd, a contemporary music and sonic arts performance series featuring new work by local and regional artists in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
Elizabeth Flood is a sound artist working with radio as both an instrument and a medium to communicate from a distance. She is interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there.
Hunter Whitaker-Morrow is an artist who works in modes of audio-visual performance, video installation, and experimental documentary. His work, both structuralist and conceptual, centers on an exploration of the moving image as socio-historical text and the potentialities of audio-visual constructions to serve as instruments of liberation.