At our February Pleiades Series Nu A.M. opens the night with cassette-based sound collage built from tape loops, field recordings, and found media. Delilah Smith follows with an electroacoustic solo set for guitar and live audio mosaicing, reshaping sound in real time through improvisation and transformation.
Delilah says “My work since 2020 has been focused primarily on my "Muzaik" series (formerly "drag studies"), a word that is a portmanteau of a digital audio process where live audio can be analyzed and matched in real-time to "perceptually similar segments" from a "corpus" of pre-recorded audio files, which results in an "audio mosaic"*. Navigating the muzaik with varying levels of improvisational and sonic density within a physical space informs much of the series since a live performance of "Muzaik #4" in 2022 for electric guitar. This show will feature an updated version of that work, and is my first solo show since it was originally performed. I also have an album with recordings of Muzaiks #5 for ARP 2500 and #6 for voice and miscellaneous electronics is being mixed and is planned for release before the end of the year.”
Following the performance we’ll have an open jam for all femme/trans/nonbinary artists. Bring an instrument/body/voice and sign up when you arrive, or email pleiades@elasticarts.org. All jammers may attend the event free of admission fee.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Delilah Smith is an electroacoustic improviser, composer and artist based in Chicago since 2022. She has been creating and performing audiovisual works since she was a teenager, resulting in a large body of work often moving between popular and experimental idioms as she learned to play guitar(s), keyboard(s)/synthesizer(s), and computer(s?) in both solo and group settings. While attending Oberlin Conservatory, her work broadened to include notated instrumental music, short-form video and film, dance, sound sculpture, and instrument building. Smith graduated with a degree in Technology in Music and Related Arts from the Conservatory in 2021 and was awarded the "John Clough Founders Fund Prize" for distinctive work within the department.