Lynn Book Performs
Friday, May 30th 8PM
Audible at ESS [Experimental Sound Studio]
5925 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 60660, 773-769-1069
http://www.exsost.org

Lynn will perform vocal and textual interventions in response to Kristin M. Frieman’s Thread Tracings exhibition at Audible at ESS.
Thread Tracings is a series of over 100 embroidered drawings created from a dressmaker’s raw materials: needle, thread, and muslin. The compositions are created in sequence; threads pulled from the structure of the cloth hold a memory of linear form. Lynn will ‘read’ the drawing compositions as a vocal score and also perform a text-based work built upon another series of Kristin’s referred to as “cares”.

A concert of improvisations and remapped compositions will follow in duet with renowned percussionist, drummer, composer and arts advocate, Michael Zerang.

Chicago Tribune Metromix had this to say in 2003: “[Book] blended stream-of-consciousness word jazz, novel utterances created by lips, lungs and diaphragm, and snatches of exquisite jazz and operatic singing into a unique aural confection… a beguiling thrill ride of a concept piece.”

See: Kristin M. Frieman
Thread Tracings: A Dressmaker’s Still Life
May 2 – June 15, 2008
http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

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Writing Through (the) Voice - May 31, 1 - 4 pm
http://www.exsost.org/workshops/

This workshop with vocalist and intermedia artist Lynn Book is for performers, writers, poets, vocalists, and anyone interested in exploring dynamic relationships between text and voice. It will focus on the relationship of ‘voiced bodies’ to language production. The burden of ‘making sense’ in writing and speaking – especially through shopworn narrative structures and imperatives for efficient communication – often delimits imagination. When ‘voiced bodies’ are engaged, there is a new indeterminacy at play challenging the stability of rules and roles of words, meaning and being. We will explore short-circuiting, shock as well as surplus methods through vocal and writing improvisations aimed at plumbing distances between impulse, feeling, image and utterance. Writing becomes physical, voicing becomes textual, and the immediate and unpredictable circulation makes possible new assemblages of desire in the making.

We have two new installations opening this weekend.  The first is Thread Tracings: A Dressmaker’s Still Life by Kristin Frieman.  The installation is a series of over 100 embroidered drawings created from a dressmaker’s raw materials: needle, thread, and muslin. The compositions are created in sequence; threads pulled from the structure of the cloth hold a memory of linear form. This form, sometimes tangled, sometimes open, is captured in the process of tracing, and then recreated with an embroidered backstitch.

The opening reception is Friday, May 2, from 6-9 PM, with a musical performance by Hal Rammel.  Please visit the Audible page for more information:

http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

Our other new installation is Recordings Made in Public Spaces by Jeffrey M. Robinson, opening Sunday, May 4.  An opening reception will be held from 3-5 PM.

Recordings Made in Public Spaces is the latest version of an ongoing project by Jeffrey M. Robinson, a sound artist from Chicago. Jeffrey collaborates with musicians by recording their performances, playing the recordings in large public spaces, then re-recording and electronically transforming them to emphasize the unique acoustical character of each space.  Please visit the Florasonic page for more information:

http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/florasonic/ 

Experimental Sound Studio is shifting its approach to education. This summer, we’re starting a new series of workshops focused on exploratory artistic process and direct creativity, led by local and visiting artists with extensive experience in a range of creative approaches to sound. These will be supplemented by a new initiative to offer individual tutorials on technical and production subjects: one-on-one sessions with experienced artist-engineers that can be scheduled at your convenience year round.

Please visit the Audible page for more information on the exhibit:
http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

Details for the upcoming Florasonic installation are now online. Recordings Made in Public Spaces by Jeffrey M. Robinson opens Sunday May 4 at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

Please visit the Florasonic page for more information on the exhibit: http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/florasonic/

• Asimina Chremos and Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Karen Christopher and Mark Booth
• Rachel Damon and Dan Mohr
• Jessi T Walsh and Patrick Scott

Please visit the Crosscut page for more details: http://www.exsost.org/artist-development/crosscut-2008-details/
McArthur Binion’s Simplicism II: Gouache Work is on display at Audible Gallery until April 28. Please visit the Audible page for more details:
http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

The deadline for the 2008 Artist Residency Program applications has now passed. Thank you to everyone who submitted - we will be reviewing the applications shortly.

Many thanks as well to those who participated in our spring workshops and all who visited photo-sound-esis I at Lincoln Park Conservatory.  Jeffrey Robinson will be the next artist participating in our Florasonic installations - his piece opens May 4 at Lincoln Park Conservatory.

McArthur Binion’s Simplicism II: Gouache Work is now on display at Audible Gallery, and photo-sound-esis I by Fred Lonberg-Holm has been extended to April 6 at Lincoln Park Conservatory. Please visit the Audible and Florasonic pages for more details:
http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/florasonic/

And as a general reminder, please remember that the deadline for the 2008 Artists Residency Program application is April 5. The application and more details can be downloaded at: http://www.exsost.org/artist-development/artist-residency-program-2008-details/

Many thanks to everyone who participated in our Pro Tools workshop. Everyone who did not have a chance to sign up will have another opportunity when we host another one in the summer. Space is still available in our other spring workshops: the Microphone Workshop, Mixing in a Digital Environment, and Introduction to Max/MSP. Please visit the Workshops page for more details and online registration: http://www.exsost.org/workshops/

Experimental Sound Studio is happy to announce the extension of
photo-sound-esis I, a sound installation by Fred Lonberg-Holm at Lincoln Park
Conservatory. Originally scheduled to end this month, the piece will remain in
place through April 6, 2008.

photo-sound-esis I is presented by ESS as part of its ongoing Florasonic sound
installation series at Lincoln Park Conservatory. The conservatory is located
at 2391 N. Stockton Drive, and is open every day 9AM-5PM free of charge.

Online payments are now accepted for the 2008 Spring Workshop Series. Beginning March 8th, ESS will host workshops from Introduction to Pro-Tools and a Microphone Workshop, to Mixing in a Digital Environment, to Introduction to Max/MSP. Annual memberships and charitable donations are also now accepted online.

This is the last week that the Crosscut library will be open to the public at ESS.  If you wish to make an appointment to view the library before the 15th, please call 773-769-1069.  Applications are due Monday, February 25th, and all pertinent details are available on the Crosscut page.  Crosscut is a collaborative effort with Links Hall.

The Spring 2008 Workshops have been announced.  Beginning next month, ESS will host weekend workshops ranging from Introduction to Pro-Tools and Microphones, to Mixing in a Digital Environment, to Introduction to Max/MSP.  Reservations can be made by calling the studio at 773-769-1069 or by emailing jonathan@exsost.org.  All information can be found on the Workshops page - online payment is coming soon.

And as a general reminder, the 2008 Artists Residency Program application is now available online.  Please visit the application form to find out more.

Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) will offer four 30- to 40-hour residencies through the 2007 Artists Residency Program (ARP). At least three of these residencies are for Chicago area artists, and, for the first time, one residency will be open to non-Chicago US artists. Each residency includes access to the ESS recording facilities with engineering assistance.

Click here to view and download the application form: http://www.exsost.org/artist-development/artist-residency-program-2008-details/

Or download a .PDF of the application form here: http://www.exsost.org/downloads/ARP%2008%20App.pdf

Chicago-based artist Jeff Abell will be presenting two works at ESS in February. The first, Clarity, is an exhibition of photographs and a sound installation and opens Friday, February 1. It will be shown until March 9. The second work is a performance entitled Confusion, a “lip-synch opera” about fan-dom. There will be two performances, Friday, February 8 and Saturday February 9, at 8 PM. For more details on both works, please visit:

http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/

The Crosscut Library at ESS is open every Saturday and Sunday, from 1 PM to 5 PM. More information can be found on the Crosscut page and the Links Hall website.