Chris Corsano / Kim Alpert
Jess Tucker aka Fetter
Killer Drones
We’re back with another Sonic Celluloid at Elastic Arts, an annual event put on by Northwestern University’s WNUR radio program The Rock Show. The event highlights artists exploring the experimental and psychedelic sides of audio and video art. Each performance tonight will push sonic boundaries and incorporate deep visuals from the vast spectrum of live video. Opening the night will be prolific artist Kim Alpert and legendary drummer Chris Corsano in duo. Kim will be utilizing their experimental approaches to video art alongside a more recent exploration of improvisational audio. Chris Corsano will dive in and out of Kim’s offerings with his highly technical but often bombastic style of drumming. Following the duo we’ll see a set from Fetter, the moniker for multimedia artist Jess Tucker. Oscillating between ethereal and pounding, her all-hardware, largely improvised sets take listeners through a foggy wilderness of saturated rhythms and menacing synths, her golden voice guiding the way through even as it piles up in gushing, stuttering fragments. She incorporates video elements such as AR, animations, and live feedback to expand the space of the performance, creating layers of live and virtual perspectives on the unfolding scene. Closing the night we’ll hear from local heavy psych space rockers Killer Drones. The band goes deep and is reccomended for fans of Hawkwind, Can, and early Kraftwerk. Tonight they’ll be joined by video artist Clark Woods. We can’t wait for this full night of audio visual delight. Join us!
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available Here or at the Door
Artist Bios
Media Artist Kim Alpert builds work that echos inquisitions into psychology and spirituality through time-based collage. The output can be found as video, poetry, movement, music, and interactivity, to create sculptural and performance-based systems. Kim's visual practice centers on humanism in understanding the complexities and simplistics of experience.
CHRIS CORSANO (b. 1975, USA) is a drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivist spirit and the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music--a dynamic, spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making: e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metal.
www.cor-sano.com
www.instagram.com/chriscorsano
www.youtube.com/@hotcarswarp/videos