CLEAT Series: Norman Long (Album Release), Regina Martinez

Name: CLEAT Series: Norman Long (Album Release), Regina Martinez
Start: 2026-02-04T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Elastic Arts

Schedule

Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Elastic Arts | Chicago, IL

We’re happy to once again welcome Norman Long back to the CLEAT system to celebrate his new album Scenes of Contestation...And the Expanded out now on Amalgam. Joining the evening will be another CLEAT alum, Regina Martinez performing solo.
This new Norman Long album is a journey from the personal and contested space of my apartment in Oakland, California, during the dot-com boom, and the housing crisis brought on by the gentrification of the early 2000s. From San Francisco, we expand to the refuge of a ranch in Woodside, California, and the desert garden of Noah Purifoy, where we are expanding to the self and the alter destiny. The recordings explore the different ways we encounter and experience various forms of contestation, one where our presence contests a space, another where our position in that space is challenged, and how climate change affects the space we inhabit. Additionally, we explore how we are creative in the spaces we occupy, record, and remember as an act of contestation.
Regina would like to thank Norman W. Long for the invitation to share an opening set for the occasion of his latest album release. The occasion happens to fall on her mother’s birthday.
Musing and self-soothing through all that gets passed down, Regina has written a letter to her mother, and her mother’s mother, to be translated and performed through CLEAT’s 16-channel speaker system.