Ryan T Dunn
Chien-An Yuan
Raquel Gonzalez
This week’s Improvised Music Series features a night of solo performances from distinct musicians hailing from Chicago and Detroit.
Raquel Gonzalez (Chicago), Chien-An Yuan (Detroit), & Ryan Dunn’s Instinct control (Chicago) will each perform solo, spanning a wide-range of genres, from ambient to new music to noise.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Instinct Control is a project of Ryan ⊥ Dunn primarily utilizing the unintended, soul-salvage of planned obsolescence through direct physical contact with the circuitry of tape players. Instinct Control considers instrumentality, expectations and the musician’s gesture—resisting the implied philosophies of settings, knobs, planned instruments, reveling in chance and dialogue, performing sound with an object that is fickle to changes in environment and performer. Dunn is a media and performance artist considering the implications and manipulation of mediation and communication. he is invested in open culture, expanded field interventions and the primacy of experience as product, and redefining the roles of creativity and pedagogy as both inexorably intertwined and problematically so.
He has performed across the US as well as internationally. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Ryan now lives and practices in Chicago. He has a BA from Reed College, an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is co-founder and currently runs the DIY space Tritriangle (tritriangle.net), an alternative performative media space in Chicago’s Wicker Park as an artist run social practice.
http://instinctcontrol.bandcamp.com
Chien-An Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Ann Arbor, MI. Yuan runs 1473, a record label specializing in improvisation, electronics, and collaboration. He is also a founding member of IS/LAND, a performance collaborative composed of APIA movers, artists, and collaborators. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Reader, and has performed and exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Elastic Arts, Convivium 33, The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Museum of Chinese in America NYC (MOCA NYC), Chinese American Music of Chicago (CAMOC), WCBN, and Hyde Park Art Center.
Yuan will be performing an improvised set comprised of samples and field recordings he's collected for his upcoming sound project 'Imaginary Homelands'.
Wielding an electric violin, looper, and some effects pedals, Raquel records herself improvising and composing music regularly. She creates lush soundscapes, ambient drones, and experimental string music in her home studio. She enjoys making different kinds of audio art that pairs well with poetry and various sound textures.
https://raquelgonzalez.bandcamp.com