Frequency Festival: Tristan Perich & Jennifer Torrence
Schedule
Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618 | Chicago, IL
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8:30pm.Tristan Perich’s Open Symmetry
Tristan Perich's Open Symmetry is a fifty-minute work for 3 vibraphones and 20-channel 1-bit electronics. Perich's work, which spans the electronic/classical divide with explorations that pair acoustic instrumentation with custom-built 1-bit electronics, pares down the ensemble in Open Symmetry to just 3 musicians playing the resonant metal bars of 3 vibraphones accompanied by a glistening ensemble of 20 speakers, each playing their own separate musical part of the composition.
Open Symmetry - Tristan Perich
for vibraphone and one-bit electronics
Ian Antonio, vibraphone
Xin Yi Chong, vibraphone
Doug Perkins, vibraphone
Tristan Perich, composition
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Jennifer Torrence is an Oslo-based percussionist/performer working internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative artist, improviser, composer, and artistic researcher. She is Associate Professor of Percussion and post-doctoral researcher at the Norwegian Academy of Music, a member of Pinquins, and percussion tutor at the Darmstadt Summer Course. She has enjoyed regular visits to the great city of Chicago, including performances with Beyond This Point and with Weston Olencki at LAMPOi. Her first appearance at Frequency Festival was in 2023, performing the music of Bethany Younge, Trond Reinholtsen, and Jessie Cox.
PROGRAM
Kelley Sheehan: A Series of Colors (2018) (selected movements), for snare drum and tape
Kelley Sheehan: feed (2025), for percussion, generative video, & fixed media
Kari Watson: For Jen Torrence (2024/25), for percussion, electronics and video
Kelley Sheehan is a Chicago-based composer and electronic musician moving between electro-acoustic, multimedia, and performance art works. As of Fall 2025, she is Assistant Professor in Music Composition and Technology at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music.
Kari Watson (they/them) is a Chicago-based composer, performer, and intermedia artist. Their work explores the intersections of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music, live performance, and interactive installation work.
Lua Borges is a Brazilian filmmaker, visual artist, and photographer based in Chicago.
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