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Beyond This Point at CHIMEFest 2024
Author: dbird
The University of Chicago’s CHIME (Chicago Integrated Media Experimental) Studio hosts the annual CHIMEFest on two dates: Friday, February 2, and Friday, April 12, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. The 2024 electroacoustic festival, curated by David Bird, features guest artists Beyond This Point and lovemusic, along with new music by University of Chicago composers.
Beyond This Point
Friday, February 2
5:30 p.m.
Program:
Simon Løffler – b
Juliana Hodkinson – Lightness
Stefano D’alessio – Longevity of Light Bulbs (and how to make them last longer)
Kaj Duncan David – 4c0st1ctr1g3r
David Bird – Decoder
lovemusic
Friday, February 2
7:30 p.m.
Program:
Finbar Hosie – The Hyacinth Garden
Bára Gísladóttir – Growl Power
Neil Luck – Points to Self
Hanna Eimermacher – Transparenz
David Bird – what glows is fuchsia
Raphaël Languillat – Digital love
The 2024 CHIMEFest is supported by UChicago Arts, the France Chicago Center, the CHIME Studio, and the University of Chicago Department of Music.
Quadraphonic: Kari Watson, Lula Asplund, and Dorothy Carlos
May 24, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Bond Chapel, The University of Chicago
Join us on Wednesday, 5/24, for Quadraphonic. This event features music and performances for quadraphonic speaker array by Kari Watson, Lula Asplund, and Dorothy Carlos. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Bond Chapel and is presented by the CHIME Studio in partnership with the Clean Air Club. Free admission. Suggested donation of $10–20.
Stoppages Vol. 1 [∞] is a collection of unedited recordings synthesized by a digital feedback circuit that exposes the material limitations of a computer’s CPU. Every piece of data generated, stored, or received by a computer is physically represented as an electrical charge within a piece of silicon. Like any other physical material, silicon has a finite amount of change it can handle at a given moment. This digital circuit asks a silicon constructed microprocessor to output an audio signal of a size and intensity that this CPU cannot physically reproduce. In turn, the CPU reaches a physical limit, a stoppage. This stoppage allows the computer’s sonic identity to emerge, a state of hysteresis where fractures and discontinuities are amplified and brought to the ear’s attention as a result of the CPU’s physical inability to reproduce this audio data. This music exposes the material collapse of a silicon microprocessor pushed to its limit. The duration of each track is the length of time the code ran before crashing.
Available for purchase at: Party Perfect!!! and Bandcamp
This CHIMEfest 2023 live improvisation features Kari Watson on modular synthesizer and Dana Jessen on bassoon. Underlying this performance is a fixed tape part constructed from processed bassoon recordings.
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CHIMEFest 2023: Site/Space
The University of Chicago’s CHIME (Chicago Integrated Media Experimental) Studio hosts the annual CHIMEFest on Friday, February 3, and Saturday, February 4, 2023 at the Logan Center for the Arts. The annual electroacoustic festival presents four concerts over the two days, featuring special guest artists bassoonist Dana Jessen, vocalist Liz Pearse, and pianist Ning Yu.
CHIMEFest 2023 is titled “Site/Space” and will feature works that explore site or space in technical, conceptual, or poetic ways. The festival will highlight University of Chicago composers as well as other leading figures in electronic and electroacoustic music. Composers use of electronics ranges from amplification and live processing to tape playback, spatial audio, multimedia work, and much more.
Schedule:
Opening Concert, UChicago Composers and Local Musicians
Friday, February 3 / 4:30 PM
Music by Hunter Brown, Ania Vu (featuring Eduard Teregulov), Jack Cramer, Ryan Garvey, and more
Dana Jessen, Bassoon and Electronics
Friday, February 3 / 7:30 PM
Music by George Lewis, Kari Watson, Dana Jessen (with video by Eli Stine), and Ryan Garvey
Liz Pearse, Voice and Electronics
Saturday, February 4 / 4:30 PM
Music by Milton Babbitt, Darlene Castro Ortiz, David Bird, Kari Watson, Elise Roy, and Blaise Ubaldini
Ning Yu, Piano and Electronics
Saturday, February 4 / 7:30 PM
Music by Stefan Prins, Joanna Bailie, David Bird, and Andrew Stock
Tickets:
Admission is free and no tickets are required for CHIMEFest performances.
Location:
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 9th Floor Penthouse, 915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Hunter Brown will be presenting a piece titled ‘Stoppages Vol. 1’. This is a collection of unedited recordings synthesized by an algorithm that produces streams of numbers that can approach or reach infinity via divide by zero errors. Due to the physical limitations of modern silicon microprocessors, computers cannot produce values of infinite size. With 32-bit processors (the most common as of now), the largest value a CPU can produce is 232. When this maximum value is approached, met, or surpassed, the computer (being the 100% deterministic machine that it is), doesn’t know what to output. It has reached a state of not-knowing and abruptly reaches a stoppage. What you’re hearing is indeterminacy emanating from the CPU’s physical inability to reproduce this audio data, not computer generated pseudo-randomness. This is similar to a record player’s inability to accurately play back a groove in a vinyl record that is impeded by static or dust; to a tape deck’s inability to accurately play back a cassette with mangled magnetic particles; to a CD player’s inability to accurately play back a scratched disc. The failures of vinyl, tape, and CD expose the physical materials that contain the sonic objects we are intended to hear by replacing them with auditory defects and malfunctions. In the case of this music, fractures and discontinuities in the digital medium are amplified and brought to the ear’s forefront. The algorithms executed in this music expose the material collapse of a silicon microprocessor pushed to its limit.
Friday, November 11, 2022
8:00 PM 11:10 PM
Elastic Arts Foundation
3429 W. Diversey #208
Chicago IL, 60647
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CHIMEFest 2019
The CHIME Studio presents CHIMEFest 2019, a meeting of electronics performers and improvisers from around the globe, with leading artists and researchers from the United States, the UK, and Europe.
Events on May 2 and 3 include concerts at 7pm each evening, as well as talks by local artists and guests during the day. See the full schedule below for details.
CHIMEFest 2019 is a collaboration between the CHIME Studio, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, and the Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 2, 2019
10am-2pm – Talks Session 1
Anne La Berge –Devices
Jeff Snyder – Snyderphonics Genera: a DSP Eurorack module for rapid hardware prototyping
PA Tremblay – Fluid Corpus Manipulation: blurring taxonomies through creative convergences of practices
Alex Harker – FrameLib: A DSP framework for arbitrary size frame processing with arbitrary sub-sample accurate timing
7pm – Concert 1
Utter written and performed by Anne La Berge
Rage Thormbones – Weston Olencki and Matt Barbier, trombones
- Matrix (for George Lewis) by Sam Pluta
- new work by Baldwin Giang
Improvisation Set I – Lauren Sarah Hays – solo performance
Improvisation Set II – Ted Moore/Katherine Young/Weston Olencki/Matt Barbier
- Ted Moore – electronics
- Katherine Young – bassoon and electronics
- Weston Olencki – analog synthesizer
- Matt Barbier – trombone
Friday, May 3, 2019
3pm-6pm – Talks Session 2
Sam Pluta – LMI Version 4 – A New Approach to Multi-Dimensional Performance Software
Ted Moore – New Approaches to Machine Listening and Machine Learning based Composition in SuperCollider
Lauren Hayes –Beyond Skill Acquisition: Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Enactive Music Cognition
6pm – reception
7pm – Concert 2
Improvisation Set III – Pedro Lopes – solo with turntables
Katie Schoepflin Jimoh, clarinet and bass clarinet
- La rupture inéluctable by PA Tremblay
- Fluence by Alex Harker
- new work by Darlene Castro
Improvisation Set IV – Jeff Snyder/Anne La Berge/Sam Pluta/Ben Lamar Gay
- Jeff Snyder – analog synthesizer
- Anne La Berge – flute and electronics
- Sam Pluta – electronics
- Ben Lamar Gay – cornet
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CHIME FESTIVAL IS UPON US!!!
On April 5-6, CHIME hosts an exciting festival of electronic, electroacoustic, and multimedia works, featuring the Spektral Quartet and the pianist Daniel Pesca. The four concerts presented as part of the two-day festival include music by the graduate composers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Western Michigan University. The festival will conclude with a colloquium presented by Amy Cimini, Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies at the University of California San Diego, and a concert of music by Maryanne Amacher and Peter Ablinger presented by Daniel Pesca and Sam Pluta.
All events are free and open to public, and will take place in the Performance Penthouse at the Reva and David Logan Center at the University of Chicago, featuring an eight channel sound system. For more information, please contact: acamci@uchicago.edu
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Building Oscillators
Hackers of ‘Approaches to Live Electronics’ busy building circuitry!
