Natacha Diels, Zach Moore, and Sam Scranton will each perform a solo set of electroacoustic music. Natacha will perform a new work of her own: Universal™ Love (2022), and Stone Soup (2022), by Joseph Bourdeau. Zach will play a new set of ambient work. Sam will hook up a 2 foot piece of balsa wood to a synthesizer for a set of fm loops and focused textures.

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Natacha Diels

Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, video animation, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes and giant butterfly (Borealis Festival 2018, Dear Antwerp 2021), a collaborative work with Ensemble Pamplemousse (Darmstadt 2021), and an ongoing 6-part TV-style miniseries with the JACK quartet (TIME:SPANS, Banff Centre for the Arts, Barlow Foundation) . With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, Natacha’s compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About) and “the liveliest music of the evening” (LA Review of Books). Natacha is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (est. 2003). Pamplemousse specializes in unique aspects of new music composition, from complex virtuosic instrumental performance to experimental theatre to electronic and robotic performance.

Zach Moore

Zach Moore is a musician creating emotionally driven work derived from mundane and spiritually esoteric mediums. Zach's work is the material created as a result of deep self-discipline ranging from meditation to therapeutic anti-anxiety strategies, a practice developed as a dramatic ideological and artistic shift with origins in the weeks leading up to quarantine from the pandemic. With isolation as a launching off point, Zach uses emotions to understand and guide the path of creation, citing the understanding of one's self-consciousness and fears as the key focal point of generating meaningful materials. Galloping Through a Wormhole (solo) and Audio Adults (with Honestly Same) are two of Zach's recent and notable works. Oh, and also Zach is an excellent recording/mixing/mastering engineer and runs not not studios in West Humboldt Park.

Sam Scranton

Sam Scranton is a composer/performer. He has been described in New Music Box as "an artist taking wholehearted risks" and in the New York Times as a "killer drummer". Sam plays percussion and electronics in Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, and Zach Moore) and Physique (with Neil Quigley). He plays with small, amplified objects processed through a synthesizer. Sam has presented his work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences and performance series such as the 2018 Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Indexical, Composit, NUNC! 3, New Music Gathering, the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Outer Ear Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. Sam's music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Borealis Festival Radio Space, WFMT, and released by Parlour Tapes+.

$15 - Tickets available at the door.