Outer Ear Festival Lineup Announced

Coming soon, Chicago will host the Outer Ear Festival. The lineup below is a little hard to follow so I’ll post a better one if it comes this way…

Experimental Sound Studio announces its annual festival of sonic arts, including performances, installations, and broadcasts. Outer Ear the only comprehensive sonic arts festival in the Chicago region.

Acres of Coins: Sound installation by students from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute Wednesday, November 4 – November 25Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 4:30pm–6pm.Presented in conjunction with the Poetry Center of Chicago and the Learning Modern exhibition at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Poets: Bill Allegrezza, Ray Bianchi, Justin Cabrillos, Steve Halle, Philip Jenks, Simone Meunch, and Lina Ramona VitkauskasSound artists: Matt Bourque, Ian Chan, Becky Grajeda, Elon Katz, Lucas Lasky, Jordan Scrivner, Aaron Zarzutzki, Ben Chaffee, Kelly Morrison, Kendra Calhoun, and Orla McHardy.

Monday, November 9 – Wednesday, December 9
Opening reception: Friday, November 6, 6pm.

Tuesday, November 8
Performance: 2pm, Workshop: 4pm-6pm
Workshop: 4-6pm: Prepared piano workshop, for pianists, composers, musicians, and experimenters interested in altering the piano’s innards. Presented in partnership with Links Hall.

Tuesday, November 10, 7pm
Bosetti and his collaborators will record people throughout Chicago singing along to renaissance madrigals by the Neapolitan composer Gesualdo da Venosa. The resulting recordings will be transformed into a polyphonic electro-acoustic performance that superimposes languages and histories.

Thursday, November 12, 6pm
Curated by film scholar Michelle Puetz, this program presents films that investigate the visual and aural possibilities of 16mm optical audio, as sounds perform images and images become sonic scores. Works by Peter Kubelka, Chris Langdon, Robert Russett, Paul Sharits, Barry Spinello, and a live accompaniment by musicians Art Lange, Guillermo Gregorio, and Brian Labycz to Richard Lerman’s Sections for Screen Performers and Audience (1974).

Friday, November 13 – Sunday, December 13
Opening reception Friday, November 13, 6-9pm.