Taralie Peterson
Chris Corsano
Elastic Arts is proud to present NY-based multidisciplinary artist Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaïmph), Taralie Peterson (Spires That in the Sunset Rise), and Chris Corsano (Vampire Belt) in trio form. Cello/electronics artist Kirin McElwain is also in town from NYC to present a solo set. We’ll experience a first-time duo from Chicagoans Anna Johnson and Lula Asplund to complete the evening.
More info TBA
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Marcia Bassett is a prominent figure in the US underground noise scene, with her output spanning many solo and collaborative projects. Most recently, she released the album Rhizomatic Gaze as Zaïmph, a project she initiated in 2005. She first made an impact with the Philadelphia outfit Un in the 1990s, before going on to release music with the New York experimental drone group Double Leopards, Hototogisu and Tom Carter as Zaika, as well as her collaborations with Samara Lubelski and Margarida Garcia, among others
Taralie Peterson is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who performs as Louise Bock and is a core member of the experimental band Spires That in the Sunset Rise. She creates music that defies easy categorization while maintaining what reviewers consistently describe as a wholly original and emotionally powerful presence pulling from avant-folk, free jazz, post-minimalism, ambient landscape. As a multi-instrumentalist we are never certain exactly what to expect. She has recently been seen on sax, cello, zither, denatured lap harp.
Kirin McElwain is a cellist and composer working in the realms of experimental, contemporary classical, and improvised music. Weaving together classical and Baroque influences with an affinity for sub-bass and harsh electronic textures, her music explores themes of desire, shame, perfection, and belonging.
Her full-length solo debut Youth will be released by AKP Recordings in October 2025.
Anna Johnson is a performer, composer, and visual artist who creates multisensory experiences. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her devotional sonic landscapes layer textural explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation into a music approaching experimental pop, ambient choral, and psychedelic folk. Anna's performances regularly feature her cinematic projections, which incorporate manipulations of light and shadow to render surreal and fantastical environments. Unknowing, Anna’s debut EP under her own name, was released on cassette in Spring 2025 by UK-based label Industrial Coast.
Lula Asplund is an experimental composer and Chicago-based sound artist. Her work invokes voice as object and atmosphere—dislocated, refracted, tactile. Using spectral play, vocal manipulation, and fragmented sound poetry, she enters the nonlinear logic of dream and memory. Asplund has a BFA from Mills College and has performed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, The Lab SF, CalArts, Elastic Arts, Bohemian National Cemetery, and Experimental Sound Studio.