Outer Ear Festival of Sound is an annual presentation of sonic arts, including performances, installations and broadcasts. It is the only comprehensive sonic arts festival in the Chicago region.
Sunday, October 26 - January 2009
Mark Booth: Spanish Still Life or a Large List of Merged Animals
Sound and image installation incorporating multi-channel text, music, video projection, and wall-mounted text-image panels.
Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell.
Co-presented with Hyde Park Art Center.
Free.
Performances in the installation by Mark Booth and invited artists:
Saturday, November 15 at 2 PM, and Saturday, December 6 at 2PM.
Monday, October 27, Thursday, October 30, and Friday, October 31, 4-7 PM
Fereshteh Toosi: Red Crystal Palace
A radio documentary based on a live public performance that investigates political involvement, malaise and optimism.To be broadcast in installments on air at 89.5 FM and vocalo.org
Fereshteh will join host Jesse Seay on-air Friday, October 31.
Co-presented with Vocalo.
Saturdays & Sundays, November 1 & 2, 8 & 9
Olivia Block, Shawn Decker, Ryan Ingebritsen, Lou Mallozzi: Train Time
A stunning sound portrait incorporating the clank of wheels over rail ties, the hiss of boilers, the roar of diesels, the call of train whistles, the whoosh of tomorrow’s super-fast trains–a rhythmic reminder that today’s downtown path was once a huge rail yard extending to the water’s edge.
Presented at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park
10 AM - 10 PM.
Free.
Commissioned by and co-presented with the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival.
Monday, November 3 - Sunday, December 7
Missing in Action: Sounds of Silence, Interruption, and Displacement
This online exhibition from the ESS Creative Audio Archive focuses on seven projects from 1991 to 2005 that explore the raw edges of sonic perception, composition and presentation. Notated excerpts will be presented on by and co-presented on Vocalo.org.
The complete works are available here.
Friday, November 5 - Sunday, November 30
Harold Mendez: So long as we can say this is the worst, this is not the worst
A haunting four-channel sound work presents a manipulated recording of crows cawing and the resonant frequencies of the landscape in the Utah desert. Conflicting notions of openness, confinement, power and property are explored. The installation seeks to engulf the viewer in a reflection on the landscape of the past and present political narratives.
Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 6-10 PM.
Artist Talk: Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E Chicago.
Co-presented with the UBS 12×12 New Artists/New Work exhibition series at the MCA.
Sunday, November 9
Hal Rammel and Olivia Block: electro-acoustic improvisations.
The Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Randolph.
3 PM
Free
Thursday, November 13
Deborah Stratman: O’er the Land
A new 16mm film
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street.
6 PM
Co-presented with Conversations at the Edge, a series organized by the Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
$9 / $7 students / $4 AIC students, faculty, and staff / $5 Film Center members.
Friday, November 14 - Sunday, December 14
Hal Rammel: Regional Light: Both Near and Far
exhibition of pinhole photograms made with multiple exposures.
Opening reception: Friday, November 14, 6 PM - 9 PM
with a special performance by Hal Rammel, John Corbett and Lou Mallozzi at 7PM.
Audible at ESS, 5925 N. Ravenswood.
Saturdays and Sundays, 1pm - 5pm, or by appointment.
Free
Friday, December 5
Seth Nehil: Flock and Tumble
a multimedia performance incorporating multi-channel sound, multiple video projection, and twelve movement/sound performers.
Heaven gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee.
8 PM
Co-presented with the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
$10/$8 students and ESS members.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 - February 2009
Jenny Gräf Sheppard: Osmosymbiotic Echo
sound installation for the Florasonic sound installation series at Lincoln Park Conservatory.
The Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton Drive.
Open daily, 9:00am - 5:00 PM
Free
