Illusion of Safety

At November’s Elastro Series we have an incredibly special show planned! We’ll be celebrating 40 years of Illusion of Safety with a 16-Channel CLEAT performance from Dan Burke! The set will be preceded by a large ensemble performance from Chicago prog rock legends CHEER-ACCIDENT and a solo piece from Hali Palombo. Celebrate with us!

Artist Bios

Since 1983, Burke and his conspirators under the Illusion Of Safety banner have traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, each unique approach bending and reconstituting the expectations and possibilities of each realm. Plowing through layered field recordings, deeply rumbling tones, and eerie electroacoustic sounds with seamless transitions between cut-and-paste collages and manufactured drones, it’s easy to get lost in the deep passages. It’s a surreal trip mixing outsourced sounds from all over the world and encompassing everything: abstract analogue synthesizer explorations, chaotic digital noise and voltage fluctuations, generating excitement in the bowels of analog equipment, raucous guitar improvisation, rattle and chilling moan of iron sheets, the creaking floorboards, resonances, fluctuations, scraps of samples is in perpetual motion background- Driven with all this by some miracle , the author creates a monumental music, nervous, anxiety-soaked, but at the same time, disturbing & attention-grabbing, creating a powerful hypnotic effect……. the sounds scatter in all directions, like circles on the water, but at the same time, remain the basis of a continuous, almost ritual, form easily detectable, or, conversely, only slightly palpable.

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Illusion of Safety 40th anniversary performance

IOS presents a new composition, FLOAT for the CLEAT 16 channel system + an ensemble improvisation.

FLOAT: An appreciation of WATER in all its forms: liquid, vapor, solid. An homage to the magic stuff that makes us and makes our imperiled garden planet. Pure form sounds: water only as source material transformed via sampling, granular synthesis, and processing, eventually becoming less pure with additional sound sources. A program that seeks a sense of transcendence through immersion in the material nature of our being. Flowing directly into an ensemble improvisation.

Hailing from the singularly vibrant musical hotbed known as Chicago, CHEER-ACCIDENT has been a creative, vital force in rock music for over 30 years. They constantly strive to surprise their audiences and themselves through relentless reinvention. From dreamy pop to angular art-rock, CHEER-ACCIDENT strikes a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio wizardry and the visceral excitement of a well-honed, explosive live rock band. The band is currently an octet, comprising of various members who have come and gone throughout the past two decades. Their body of work is unparalleled in its ambition and originality, and their most recent releases, “Putting Off Death” and “Here Comes The Sunset” (to name just two, on Cuneiform and Skin Graft, respectively) demonstrate how the band continues to evolve with each passing year.

Hali Palombo is an avid practitioner of “plunderphonics”: sampling existing musical/aural works and intertwining them into something brand new, whether it’s shortwave radio and CB radio samples, wax cylinder audio, and field recordings taken from Midwestern points of interest.

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