Events . John Wiese with Colin Self [RVNG Intl.: NYC] and U+1f440

John Wiese with Colin Self [RVNG Intl.: NYC] and U+1f440

Monday September 23rd 2019

Telecorps Presents

an evening of experimental sound performance


featuring double-headliners

JOHN WIESE [Gilgongo Records: Los Angeles/Cleveland]

and

COLIN SELF [Rvng Intl.: NYC/Berlin]


with an opening performance by

U+1F440 [Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles: Pittsburgh]


7:30pm - 11pm

$15

all-ages


3577 Studios
3577 Bigelow Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States of Embarrassment


COLIN SELF

Colin Self challenges boundaries of perception with his art, music, and performances. Inspired by the work of Donna Haraway (Cyborg Manifesto, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene), Siblings is the final segment of the six-part opera series entitled Elation. Informed by Self’s exploration of the ways of knowing, Siblings places a non-biological family at its center. The characters, bonded by curiosity and caring, generate ways of collectively coming together on a damaged planet. Self uses Siblings to define this familial experience through sound and its soundmakers. Feeding into Siblings is XHOIR, Self’s ongoing project of group vocal workshops for singing and listening, and a broad cast of kin including but not limited to Michael Beharie, Greg Fox (drums), Martine Syms (words and voice), The Mivos Quartet, and Raul De Nieves (cover art).

Siblings is Self’s second full-length release following 2015’s Elation. Siblings has been performed iteratively and internationally with humor, drama, and fierce song. Siblings’ MoMA PS1 staging in 2018 featured black-light messaging, countdown clocks, books on rope, and dancers adorned with swirling prints and LED lanterns. Self follows, in Haraway’s words, towards a “commitment to the finicky, disruptive details of good stories that don’t know how to finish.” Future performances will likely carry away in the best way. (RVNG Intl.)

http://colin-self.com
https://igetrvng.com/artists/colin-self/
https://soundcloud.com/colin-self
https://twitter.com/colinself


JOHN WIESE

John Wiese is an artist and composer living and working in Los Angeles and Cleveland. From his experiments with recording as a teenager, he has since gone on to work in the world of contemporary sound art and the international experimental community. His sounds can be completely serene and sublime while at the same time being as equally frenetic and irregular, a sign of the artist’s ability to adapt and utilize a wide palette to build captivating aural works. As a performer and recording artist, his expertise in composition, texture, and experimentation with sound confirm his reputation of being an original and innovative voice in experimental music. (Luke Tandy)

http://john-wiese.com
http://johnwiese.tumblr.com
https://johnwiese.bandcamp.com/track/wind-changed-direction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpF78WNq7Tc


U+1F440

U+1F440 (formerly Bubblesort) is a generative music and performance art project started by Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles in 2017. U+1F440 performs live electronic music and visuals using custom code and interactive electronics. Using existing politically charged texts as source material - we train machine learning algorithms on manifestos from a variety of ideological perspectives, testimonies from sexual predators who are serving on the Supreme Court, speeches by feminist heroes, books by controversial dolphin-loving visionaries and more to produce poetic and dream-like computer-generated lyrics. (U+1F440)

https://vimeo.com/346761513?fbclid=IwAR268DmdWDUudXGtWyO_aDSBZeijRHW3F7aLIscuAajebHZRLX1AYjDiRjA

Related Entities: 3577 Studios
Tags: Electronic Experimental