We have a very busy month for Elastro including this incredibly special event! We’re honored to host Portuguese artist Rafael Toral performing a solo performance in a quad speaker arrangement! Elastro curator Daniel Wyche will begin the evening with an ensemble set including Emily Beisel, Bill Harris, and Veronica Salinas.
Rafael's new record Spectral Evolution, marks a significant return to the electric guitar after 15 years in his “Space Program,” performing only with self-built electronic modules. Here, the unique compositional fronts of guitar and electronics crush together in a powerful new synthesis, as Toral weaves twelve distinct episodes into a flowing whole. Released on Jim O'Rourke's reactivated Moikai, “Spectral Evolution imbues the ambiance of jazz harmony-inspired interplay with dense electronic mass in a new expanding universe."
Join us! Music at 8pm.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer, and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recordings and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations and multichannel guitar. He has been a curator with the Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago since 2013, where is work has been described as “crucial” by Dusted and “vital” by the Chicago Reader. In March of 2020, Daniel co-founded The Quarantine Concerts in collaboration with Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The series has been widely praised as a model for online/streaming live music. Along with his solo guitar work, Daniel is involved in several ongoing collaborations, most notably the trio of Wyche, Mark Shippy (US Maple), and Ben Baker Billington, as well as new work with longtime collaborators like Patrick Shiroishi, Lake Mary, and many others. For this event with Rafael Toral, he will perform a quad arrangement (with ensemble) of “Earthwork,” the title piece from his most recent solo record, released on American Dreams Records in 2021.