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Daniel Wyche is a composer and improvising musician who uses guitar, pedals, and other electronics to make tracks full of ideas, noise, and even humor. I love his new tape with Lia Kohl, Movie Candy, so I talked to him in my living room about how to listen to experimental music (a Patreon-only part of our talk) and just how important other people are to his well-being. Content warning: hell is NO people, a gap year without the name "gap year," Chris Wiersema, learning how to hitchhike, metalhead with duffel bag full of CDs, Estonian farm, cousins.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Daniel on Instagram, @danielwyche. And go to Elastic Arts, where he frequently curates programming.You gotta hear Movie Candy. Then, check out his solo albums, 2021's Earthwork and 2016's Our Severed Sleep. You can hear him collaborate with previous TIYA guest Patrick Shiroishi on Long Day (also with Ted Byrnes). And he has a forthcoming project with Lake Mary, so stay on the lookout for that!Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.
In the 1990s Brooklyn, New York emerged as the epicenter of artistic creativity and innovation. Author Cisco Bradley discusses his new book The Williamsburg Avant Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on The Brooklyn Waterfront (Duke University Press) with hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli and artist Linus Coraggio.Here is part two of that conversation and here are the dates for Cisco's book tour:Jun 11 - Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NYJun 17 - Avalon Lounge, Catskill, NYJun 18 - Diamond Hollow Books, Andes, NYJun 23 - Village Works, New York, NYJun 26 - Quinn's, Beacon, NYJul 6 - Rhizome, Washington, DCJul 17 - Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VAJul 21 - Shadowbox Studio, Durham, NCAug 8 - The Lilypad, Cambridge, MAAug 16 - City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA (online only)Sep 13 - Tubby's, Kingston, NYOct 26 - Elastic Arts, Chicago, ILOct 28 - Bluestem, Madison, WIThe Cisco and Linus Playlist Pt. 2
Alejandro Ayala is a curator, organizer, educator, and dedicated Chicagoan. Known to many by his DJ name ‘King Hippo,' Ayala hosted a monthly show on the globally-distributed QC Radio program on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM. For two decades he's been an active event producer and promoter, responsible for the long-standing Fresh Roasted series at The Whistler, the annual Preservation of Fire series, the legendary CHICAGOxLONDON showcase at London's Total Refreshment Centre, the DALLASxCHICAGO interstate artist exchange at Sleeping Village in 2018, the Chicago debut of Grammy-winning Australian prog-soul band Hiatus Kaiyote at The Double Door in 2014, and innumerable one-off events for myriad artists across Chicago's diverse landscape of venues (including Elastic Arts, Co-Prosperity, Transition East, Empty Bottle, and many more). Between 2020 and 2022 he worked as an instructor for After School Matters, for whom he designed a unique 'Event Planning & Production' curriculum. Currently, Ayala works as Head of Marketing for the International Anthem record label, where he's been a creative engineer behind album campaigns for Damon Locks' Black Monument Ensemble, Jaimie Branch, and Junius Paul, in addition to acting as photographer-in-residence (his photographs of Angel Bat Dawid have been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone), and co-producing three albums by Makaya McCraven. In 2021 the Chicago Reader profiled Ayala as a Chicagoan of Note.
Welcome back! In the N8V-T Youth Podcast Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. N8V-T [pronounced Native Tea] is a youth-led Podcast series by our daughters who have participated in our Daughters of Tradition [DOT] mentorship group. This is a Social Justice-focused Podcast Series collaborating with local women leaders. We are publishing this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated and uplifted all year. In this episode, we learn from and connect with Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist, healer, and mother. To learn more about Katrina, continue reading below. Hosts: Daughters of Tradition [DOT] Ella S., Ella R., and Jizelle Join DOT and the HIR Wellness Institute team as they interview and engage in meaningful conversation with current and emerging women leaders and we will get the opportunity to hear Indigenous youth perspectives. Together we will build pathways to empower our young feminine voices and advocacy. Learn more about the Podcast and how to support us here: https://www.hirwellness.org/n8vt-podcast Support the DOT to Washington D.C. https://www.mightycause.com/event/Dot To learn more about Katrina, please visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally. The art doesn't stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices. Katrina's work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison. While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin' The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator. Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago's Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.
Sound Ecology is a continuation of our Season 2 theme, Art Meets Science. In this episode we experience the work of sound artists and musicians. We're moving at a meditative pace and providing listeners with a contemplative, relaxing experience. First up will be a six minute sound experience entitled "Shivering Sands," the contemplative ambient music project of singer-songwriter Angela James and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Martins. After "Shivering Sands" is an interview with sound artist, Norman W. Long, followed by his sound piece entitled "Expanded Field." Norman's practice involves walking, listening, improvising, performing, recording and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, place, ecology, culture, race, value, silence and the invisible. Norman Long has performed and exhibited at Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Links Hall, Elastic Arts,Green Line Performing Arts Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Cultural Center and 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Norman has performed with Damon Locks, Tatsuya Nakatani, Cher Jey, Sara Zalek, Cristal Sabbagh, Xris Espinoza, Adam Zanolini, Dan Bitney and Todd Carter and performed and toured with Angel Bat Dawid and the Brothahood. He has released his compositions on Hausu Mountain, Reserve Matinee and Room40 labels. His latest release, BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN, was released in September 2021 on Hausu Mountain.The Pivot Arts Podcast is created and produced by Julieanne Ehre with sound engineering by Hannah Foerschler and original music composed by Andrew Hansen. Generous support for the podcast is provided by FLATS, a Chicago-based apartment community. For more information on Pivot Arts visit pivotarts.org.
Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this part 3, we learn more about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist, and healing the community through art. Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living. If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are! To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally. The art doesn't stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices. Katrina's work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison. While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin' The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator. Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago's Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.
Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this part 2, we learn more about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist, and new mother during COVID-19 and managing her identities. Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living. If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are! To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally. The art doesn't stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices. Katrina's work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison. While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin' The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator. Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago's Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.
Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this episode, we begin to learn about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist. Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living. If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are! To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally. The art doesn't stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices. Katrina's work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison. While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin' The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator. Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago's Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.
Sam talks about how Dark Matter Series & Residency at Elastic Arts has morphed and grown since its inception, as well the details of Dark Matter's upcoming Afrofuturist Weekend. Twitter: @darkmatterchi IG: @darkmatterresidency *Dark Matter Series events can be found at elasticarts.org* Music by Audrey Q. Snyder & Mike Craig
Sam talks about how Dark Matter Series & Residency at Elastic Arts has morphed and grown since its inception, as well the details of Dark Matter's upcoming Afrofuturist Weekend. Twitter: @darkmatterchi IG: @darkmatterresidency *Dark Matter Series events can be found at elasticarts.org* Music by Audrey Q. Snyder & Mike Craig
No Coast Cinema is LIVE at Elastic Arts at 3429 W Diversey Ave. chatting with Heather Mingo and John Sutton, co-writers of the film “Graffito”, before a screening of the film with live accompaniment by a jazz quartet. Together, they discuss the writing process behind the film, the ideas and themes presented and the spectacular […]
What About Chicago? - your weekly show exploring live art, music, entertainment and culture with hosts Ben Moroney and Rahim Salaam transmitting from Earphoria: Chicago. Listen to the podcast on all podcast platforms, with our friends the Machine Culture Collective at www.machineculture.com and every Friday the podcast airs at 1 p.m. with Que4 Radio at que4.org. On this week's episode we take that walk with pioneer of the arts in Chicago Sam Lewis, a founder of Elastic Arts among many other talents and projects. We also check out the Censored Opening Reception, find Local Love Vol. 2 (Music +Art Showcase), network at Bubbly Dynamics Open Studio, LOL at The KIKI: Queer Comedy with Variety 12/2, stomp the season at the Beach Bunny Christmas Special and so much more! Subscribe and give a review on iTunes, help support the podcast at www.patreon.com/whataboutchicago and like our page at www.facebook.com/whataboutchicago. Here is a list of the music featured on this week's episode: The Stranger - Fine Lines MC Longshot - No Fear moon type - About You Hobbyist- Hobbyist of the Midwest - Chicago Is..... Our Fathers - Meet You At The Pool Hall SunBLVD - For You The Just Luckies - White People Erthe St. James - Let Us Live Beach Bunny - Prom Queen GRiMMS & BLACKNiGHT - Modern Timed Pixel Grip - Golden Moses
Since high school DJ John Simmons has been DJing & rockin events all across the world! A fellow St. Rita alum, I've known John since he was a turning it out in band & tearing up our school dances. Celebrating his 25th of DJing this Thanksgiving John is still THE go-to guy if you're looking for house music or out in the world looking fora great house/dance mix. With his 30th anniversary coming up i met up with my guy John and a particularly noisy Collectivo Cafe to record a quick episode. Sorry for the sound but its still very interesting. promise our next one will sound better, but please enjoy this one. If you wanna catch DJ John Simmons on Twitter, Instagram, & TwitterUpcoming shows:THIS THURSDAY: EAST ROOMNov. 2nd ELASTIC ARTS feat legendary DJ Fast Eddie & (tag team set w/ DJ My Boy Elroy)Dec. 1st SMARTBAR w/ FloorPlan & Bruce Baileywanna check out the sounds of DJ John Simmons? - https://soundcloud.com/djjohnsimmons?fbclid=IwAR3VCHtzSTXv3_J2MKBGmVjkMMdDoZYOoCYzbjoEomCUE2U0qT_uANimEh4
This week we have Lardo talk about their ACLU benefit show at Bottom Lounge, followed by Born Days and Rasplyn to talk about their show at Elastic Arts.
This week we have Lardo talk about their ACLU benefit show at Bottom Lounge, followed by Born Days and Rasplyn to talk about their show at Elastic Arts.
Soft LedgesShelley Miller and Chris Geisler came into the studio one afternoon and blew me away. Their sheer raw musical energy combined with killer lyrics got this old man on his feet and dancing. What a great band Soft Ledges is. You can catch this energy at their album release show December 4, 2016 at Elastic Arts. 3429 W. Diversey, Chicago, IL 60647 #208
Soft LedgesShelley Miller and Chris Geisler came into the studio one afternoon and blew me away. Their sheer raw musical energy combined with killer lyrics got this old man on his feet and dancing. What a great band Soft Ledges is. You can catch this energy at their album release show December 4, 2016 at Elastic Arts. 3429 W. Diversey, Chicago, IL 60647 #208ShooBooty Studios 2016-2017 Music Series presents:Soft Ledges Album Release Showw. special guest Br.Sunday, December 4 @ 7 pmall-ages/BYOBSuggested donation: $10. Tickets available at the doorChicago indie-rock/noise-folk band Soft Ledges (www.softledges.com) makes harsh, angular, delicate music about being lost...and found. Formed in 2015 by songwriter Shelley Miller (vox/keys/guitar) and Chris Geisler(bass) and rounded out by drummer Raul Callejero, the band bends, scrapes and bows their instruments and strings, conjuring dark soundscapes that bring Miller's cautionary, redemptive stories to life. Tonight they'll celebrate the release of their self-titled debut album (avalable 11/18/16 on CD/vinyl/digital)Fingerstyle guitarist Br. (Louis Bardales) opens.Gracious thanks to Elastic Arts and Bill Brickey of ShooBooty Studios for hosting this show.
On June 11, 2016, Ben Remsen and Nick Millevoi spent a couple hours at Elastic Arts, in Logan Square, in Chicago, listening to music in some way related to Nick’s work. To find out more about Nick, what he's done and what he's doing, check out nickmillevoi.blogspot.com. Subscribe to the Now Is Podcast in iTunes.
Baron von Something "Tuscon, AZ" From the album, "Trigger Happy Action Spots" You, Me, Them, Everybody Chicago Music Podcast Baron von Something plays Elastic Arts on March 18 as part of Homeroom's Songwriter Showcase Baron von Something on Bandcamp