Experimental Sound Studio is holding Chicago’s only sound and music themed holiday market in collaboration with Twisted Hippo in Albany Park. Featuring some of the Midwest’s finest instrument makers, record labels, audio equipment purveyors, and craftspeople of all kinds.
Panelists Marc Fischer (Public Collectors), Dave Rempis, Neil Tesser, Rebecca Zorach (Never the Same)
Performers Kent Kessler, Dave Rempis
Malachi Ritscher was first presented as Public Collectors' contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to numerous never before exhibited materials drawn from the Ritscher collection at Creative Audio Archive, Malachi Ritscher included objects borrowed from close friends and others associated with the late documentarian and activist. Objects include Ritscher's DAT recorder, a sign made to quiet people standing near his recording equipment during concerts, recordings, ephemera connected to concerts he documented, and unpublished photos taken by Ritscher. The Chicago iteration of Malachi Ritscher will include additional materials from the Creative Audio Archive, and will be accompanied by copies of a free essay booklet that was first produced for the Whitney Biennial.
This discussion and performance will investigate the influence of Malachi Ritscher—the late Chicago-based documentarian, activist, artist, musician, photographer, and supporter of experimental and improvised music whose thousands of audio recordings fill the shelves of the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio.
