Frequency Series: a•pe•ri•od•ic (56): Bonnie Han Jones

Name: Frequency Series: a•pe•ri•od•ic (56): Bonnie Han Jones
Start: 2025-03-02T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Constellation Chicago

Schedule

Sun, 02 Mar, 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Constellation Chicago | Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic is thrilled to welcome BONNIE HAN JONES to Chicago for a residency and portrait concert to help celebrate her upcoming move to the midwest. Han Jones has prepared two scores Memory Work and Echoic Memory for a•pe•ri•od•ic that explore themes of sonic memory, archives, improvisation, and collective transformation. Han Jones will open the evening with an electroacoustic improvisation.
Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, https://technesound.org/, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narragansett. https://bonnie-jones.com/
(photo credit: Bradford Bailey)
a•pe•ri•od•ic:
Founded in 2010 by Nomi Epstein, a•pe•ri•od•ic is an intersectional, member-run ensemble producing concerts of experimental music that encourage focused listening. The ensemble carefully selects creative work by local and international artists of all genders whose works take diverse approaches to composition. The collaborative creation process among the ensemble members and with the featured composers challenges conventional ideas of power relationships in “classical” music-making: each work is an exploratory process encouraging new technique with both traditional and unconventional instruments and probing the relationship between notated and improvised sound.