San Francisco-based instrument inventor Tom Nunn & New Zealand electric bassist Paul Winstanley present their duo Music for Hard Times in an evening of improvised performance.
Bob Beswick/Ed Herrmann: a collaborative movement/sound performance.
For her Chicago premiere, Laurie Amat will perform AmatWorks—site-specific compositions and improvisations for solo and accompanied voice, featuring acoustic and altered vocals, electronic looping, and signal processing with computer music pioneer Max Mathews' tunable Phaser Filter system. She will be joined by Ed Herrmann on piano and electronics.
Ed Herrmann will perform Beneath the River, a ritual sonic immersion inspired by and created from the sounds of the Rockefeller Chapel carillon—one of the largest musical instruments in the world, comprising 72 bronze bells spanning six octaves with a total weight of over 100 tons —along with gongs, tam-tams, and scrap metal; presented through a four-channel sound system with live electronics, and vocals by Laurie Amat.
Cretaceous Chorus
by Ed Herrmann
February 13 - May 22, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 13, 3-5pm
9am-5pm Fern Room, Lincoln Park Conservatory 2391 N. Stockton Drive.
Curated by Lou Mallozzi for Experimental Sound Studio's Florasonic series, presented in partnership with the Chicago Park District.
Admission is FREE!
Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1975. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity. For this performance Tom's instruments will be played by Ed Herrmann, Jason Adasiewicz, Adam Vida, and Sam Hertz.
