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Lea Bertucci packs the sounds of vast structures into small spaces
Sometimes Lea Bertucci treats architecture as an extension of her instruments. For the 2019 album Resonant Field (NNA Tapes), the composer, sound designer, and instrumentalist brought her alto saxophone into the confines of the Marine A Grain Elevator in Silo City, a collection of three such elevators in Buffalo, New York. The structure’s size—it’s 13 […]
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Pharmakon makes noise that vomits and bleeds
For New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, the body is a wet, alien thing that hangs on the self like meat on a butcher’s hook. Her defining album, 2014’s Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones), chronicles a serious illness and hospitalization. It opens with the multitracked sound of her desperate breathing, in a claustrophobic symphony […]
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Harold Washington Library celebrates the Reverend Clay Evans with a free gospel concert
Harold Washington Library celebrates the Reverend Clay Evans with a free gospel concert, the Hideout’s dance-centric new Midnight Resonance series books Bergsonist, and more.