Norman Long
Keefe Jackson
Infinite Perspectives Trio
Sarah Rot
At this Thursday’s Improvised Music Series we’ll have a duo from Norman Long and Keefe Jackson along with a project from Michael Hudson-Casanova called Infinite Perspectives. This will be the second meeting of Norman and Keefe here at Elastic Arts where they explore electronics and woodwinds. Long has been digging into fragmented modular beats with Keefe swirling above with textures, patterns, and occasional melodic movements.
Infinite Perspectives is a multidisciplinary group made up of improvising musicians and dancers. The musical trio of Michael Hudson-Casanova, Andy Danstrom, and Andrew Sudhibhasilp have explored their trio sound at Chicago venues like Fulton Street Collective and California Clipper. Sarah Rot, a dance/movement therapist, leads the visual component of this project as choreographer and mover, joined by Dani Koek.
$15/10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Norman W. Long is a polymathic practitioner in sound, video, and performance art. His artistic methodology encompasses soundwalks, assemblage, live performances, and audio recordings to engender artifacts, environments, and scenarios, facilitating dialogues between himself and the audience regarding memory space, culture, environmental justice, value, silence, and invisible phenomena. Holding a Master’s Degree in "New Genres" from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s of Landscape Architecture degree from Cornell University (2008), Norman relocated to Chicago in 2008. His artistic endeavors have been showcased at diverse venues, including Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Renaissance Society, Yale University, Harold Washington College, Chicago Artists Coalition Gallery, Links Hall, Elastic, Constellation, and the Arts Club as part of the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival. In 2023, Norman's multi-channel sound installations were exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery and the Ford Environmental Community Center in Chicago, IL, with generous support from Columbia College Chicago and ThreeWalls Gallery. Additionally, he has released two albums, "Calumet in Dub" (on Blorpus Editions) and "Re-membering Re-Presencing" (on Rural Situationism).
Keefe Jackson, saxophonist/clarinetist/improvisor/composer, arrived in Chicago in 2001 from his native Fayettevile, Arkansas. He performs regularly in the U.S. and in Europe with many musicians including Pandelis Karayorgis, Tomeka Reid, Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Jason Adasiewicz, Mike Reed, Jason Stein, Josh Berman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Frank Rosaly, Oscar Jan Hoogland and Marc Unternaehrer. He has also appeared with Michael Moore, Ab Baars, Michiel Braam, Satoko Fujii, and Anthony Coleman. Bill Meyer (Chicago Reader): "...the impeccable logic of his lines and the richness of his tone leave you wanting more... Jackson's high-register squiggles and coarsely voiced, rippling runs push the limits of the tenor's tonal envelope." Frank van Herk, de Volkskrant (Amsterdam): "[Jackson] has an old-fashioned, warm-woolly sound, and a feeling for melodic lines that take their time in unfolding." He has been mentioned in the DownBeat Critics Poll in the Rising Star Tenor Saxophone category. Recordings are available on Delmark and Clean Feed Records.