Sunday, November 25, 2018

aqua.flv at Elastic 11/30

I've put together a.pe.ri.od.ic's next concert at Elastic on Friday, November 30 at 8:30pm.

video still by Kim Alpert

The concert will feature a new piece I've developed in collaboration with Kim Alpert, using webdriver torso videos. The program will also feature a solo piece for bass clarinet by Linda Catlin Smith and works for ensemble by Makiko Nishikaze and Jürg Frey.

Makiko Nishikaze - moremelodies I (2014)
Jürg Frey - Extended Circular Music No. 8 (2014)
Linda Catlin Smith - Blackwing (2018)
Jeff Kimmel - aqua.flv, with 3D video by Kim Alpert (2018)
[3D glasses will be provided.]

Performers:

Eliza Bangert
Nomi Epstein
Jeff Kimmel
Kenn Kumpf
Matthew Oliphant
Ryan Packard
Robert Reinhart
Sam Scranton

Julie Pomerleau, Johanna Brock, and Whitney Johnson will open with a viola trio.

Thanks to Bill Meyer for the preview in the Chicago Reader.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

stück 1998 / anchor 2018, February 16-24

I'm thrilled to be a part of an exciting series of performances created by choreographer Ayako Kato at Links Hall during the next two weeks. She has realized 30 pages of Wandelweiser composer Manfred Werder's 4000-page piece stück 1998As the composer specifies that a single page of the score can only be performed once, each evening will feature a different excerpt of the score and uniquely explore the intersection between music and dance.

photo by Deidre Huckabay

Day 1: Friday, 2/16: Music/Sound First
Day 2: Sunday, 2/18: Dance/Movement First
Day 3: Thursday, 2/22: Music and Dance as Equals
Day 4: Saturday, 2/24: Independence of Dance/Movement as anchor 2018

Links Hall, 3111 N Western Ave, performances begin at 7pm.
Tickets are available here or at the door.

photo by Deidre Huckabay

Composition
by Mandred Werder; Actualization by Corinne Imberski, Wilson Tanner Smith, Jeff Kimmel, Christina Martin, Ayako Kato; Choreographic Direction by Ayako Kato with movement invention with artists; Costume by Amanda Franck.

You can read an interview with Ayako about this project here.