This performative tour of Florasonic installation Mt. Shamao guides participants through the parallel beginnings of Chicago and Taiwan's botanical gardens and the imported tropical paradises they attempted to create.
‘Mt. Shamao’ is a site-responsive installation by Milad Mozari and Mitsu Salmon as part of ESS’s Florasonic series at Lincoln Park Conservatory.
In this exhibition, Jonny Farrow and Milad Mozari explore their shared interest in sound as a means of communication and political force while considering audible soft powers. They meditate on two vehicles of transmission; the former the speaker itself and the latter the sound which is being transmitted. Both work intimately in dialogue with their respective regional culture; Mozari currently resides in Chicago and Farrow in Adu Dhabi.
ADA Radio is a new occasional and improvisational radio collective consisting of Brett Balogh, Jonny Farrow, Jeff Kolar, Milad Mozari, Jessica Speer, and Peter Speer. If you are on the north side of Chicago, tune in to hear these jolly noisemakers in their sonic frolic! Collectively concerned with voltages, frequencies, and modulations, each member brings a different sensibility to the group employing all manner of sonic manipulations, from analog synthesizers, to digital instruments, to live audio streams from far away spaces, hand-built oscillators, and other frequencies from across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is free-form radio taken to its extreme! Don't miss this noisy inaugural broadcast!
