Throne of Lies

After years of mutual appreciation, improvisers Jenna Lyle (voice, electronics, lap steel guitar) and Mieko Vasilou (percussion) have decided to make sound together as the pseudo-band Throne of Lies (not to be confused with a video game of the same name). An interdisciplinary artist with a background in Jazz drumming, Vasilou explores narrative through rhythm, working with the band Myutanto and the mixed-race artist collective Percent. Feeling it might be an interesting extension of her movement and noise practice while embracing her roots as a Reba McIntyre wannabe, Lyle decided to pick up the lap steel over quarantine. It's going ok. Together, the two have almost no idea what is going to happen.

Zalek/Lefauve

Multipart sonic reduction utilizing movement and various metal bits including two antique trash can lids, light triggered oscillators, a whole bunch of effects pedals, and two humans.

The solo sets will be followed by an open jam for all womxn artists. Email pleiades@elasticarts.org to sign up.

$15

8:00 pm

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For the past two years, Mocrep has been working on a piece of some kind with composer Katherine Young. What began as a series of musical portraits morphed over the course of the pandemic into a rumination on water. Getting together throughout 2021 to improvise together, I have to say, kind of saved me. Very excited for this show. We’re sharing a bill with Equilateral Triangle (Renee Baker, Douglas R. Ewart, Lou Malozzi), which is surreal. They are amazing. It’s going to be a great night.

8:00 pm

$15

What is water? Mocrep and Katie Young construct a sonic raft that drifts down a lazy (yet near fatal) river of field recordings, aquatic memories, and slippery musings. There will also be singing and bells.

CREW
Captain Ryan Zerna - flute
First Mate Deidre Huckabay - EWI & flute
Bosun Katie Young - bassoon
Second Mate Lia Kohl - cello
Chief Engineer Zach Moore - bass
Cook Zachary Good - recorder
Watch Leader Jenna Lyle - voice and things
Medical Purser Andrew Tham - synthesizers

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Composer/performers Jenna Lyle and Riley Leitch make a habit of deconstructing the way sound comes into being--be it through their instruments (Lyle, voice; Leitch, trombone), found materials, electronic accidents, or movement. They work outside of genre and classification to make intuitive performance works rooted in listening and asking questions.

Presented by The Neo-Futurists for Ear Taxi 2021, Louise & Oscar's Fashion Show brings together two works for wearable (dare we say fashionable) instruments. In Louise (2018), Jenna Lyle performs a work for sonic fabric garment with electronics, voice, and movement. In Oscar (2019), Riley Leitch performs a work for trombone, tape (in many senses of the word), and electronics from beneath a pile of VHS refuse and garbage bags. No dress code for the audience, but it couldn't hurt to be runway-ready.

Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan of Popebama perform a concert of works by collaborators and commissionees, including a duo for modified instruments, bodies, and feedback titled Technically, yes., devised together in 2018. See program and link to view below

Concert 1 - Popebama

Erin Rogers : Light-On-Light (2018)

Jenna Lyle : Technically, yes (2018)

Popebama : Showdown (2020)

Alex Christie : Operating Manual (3rd ed.) (2021), world premiere

Chin Ting Chan : Fuse (I) (2019)

Christopher Biggs : an infinite sea of particles (2019), world premiere

View concert here: https://youtu.be/y6kmgTcp4tU?t=1164

PARLOUR TAPES+ ISSUES FOUR DEBUT SOLO RECORDS

Label turns the microphone on the artists who have run it since 2013

Albums from Deidre Huckabay, Jenna Lyle, Zach Moore, and Andrew Tham

The experimental cassette tape label Parlour Tapes+ announces four new albums, available on cassette and digital download on April 23, 2021. The quadruple release features a first-time solo record from each of the four artists who currently own and run the label: Deidre Huckabay, Jenna Lyle, Zach Moore, and Andrew Tham. All four albums are currently available for preorder on the Parlour Tapes+ Bandcamp page.

Listeners can celebrate the releases at a streaming event on The Quarantine Concerts presented by Experimental Sound Studio on April 23, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. CST. The online event will include the premiere of four videos, one from each artist, alongside a brand-new collaborative collage of sound and video. The evening is set to include a crowd-sourced series of untrustworthy tutorials from special guests, an homage to artist Maria Lai’s Legarsi alla montagna (To Tie Oneself to the Mountain) with VHS tape, and interviews with Chicagoans about their departed loved ones.

Unable to host audiences en masse for performances in the actual building, The Arts Club of Chicago opted, during a pandemic-induced hibernation, to explore the generative potential of emptiness. The club invited three artists in three disciplines to ponder the question, “What does one do with an empty institution?” Musician Angel Bat Dawid, Dancer Jasmine Mendoza, and Theater maker Kurt Chiang (with their collaborators Isaiah Collier, Keaton Fox, and Livia Chesley respectively) took on the task of making art for and from a void. The three lead artists, with programmer Jenna Lyle, discuss their discoveries from the process and the inherent contradictions in the original prompt: is an arts institution ever really empty?

View Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms on Sunday, April 11 at 5 p.m. CDT on the EXPO CHICAGO microsite here, and join for this in-depth follow-up.

Presented in partnership with The Arts Club of Chicago

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11:30 am CST, Monday April 12, 2021