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Cross Modulation Series: Bill Harris/Norman Long Duo and Short Americans
March 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Bill Harris/Norman W. Long Duo
Bill Harris (b. 1987, Pittsburgh, PA) is a percussionist, improviser, and audio engineer in Chicago. He also operates and produces for Amalgam, a Chicago-based label and collective, and co-operates Chicago recording studio Marmalade. Bill focuses on solo work incorporating acoustic and electronic material, using feedback and timbral manipulation. He has recorded two solo records, Blinking Glue, and ONOMAT. Some of his most frequent collaborators include Ishmael Ali, Jake Wark, Carol Genetti, Emily Beisel, Allen Moore, Timothee Quost, Dave Rempis, Jim Baker, PT Bell, Gerrit Hatcher, Eli Namay, Peter Maunu, Matt Piet, Brianna Tong, Wills McKenna, David Fletcher, Jess McIntosh, Aaron Smith, Jeff Kimmel, Molly Jones, and Keefe Jackson.
Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago, IL. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. He has exhibited and/or performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The processes involved in his practice lie within the area of field recording, electro-acoustic composition and dub technique. His art/studio practice involves gardening, collecting, performing and recording to create, objects, environments, situations in which the artist and audience are engaged in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible. It is his desire that his practice offers us a space to consider our relationship to sound via social, ecological structures, our interiority and to affirm our existence.
Short Americans
Short Americans in an experimental music quartet from Minneapolis performing their own compositions as well as their friends. They have worked with people like Manfred Werder, Kory Reeder, T.J. Borden, and others, mainly play music ranging between open scores and free improvisation, and have a recent release on All Sky. The group is Luke Martin, Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, Max Wanderman, and Adam Zahller. On this Midwest tour we will be playing new pieces written by each of us, superimposed on one another in random arrangements for each concert.