OPTION: Sydney Spann

Sydney Spann performs a solo version of Big Music Little Earth, a collection of songs made with voice, great highland bagpipe tuned-synths, baby monitors, and live electronics.

This performance and interview are presented in the ESS garden, and will premiere online on ESS's YouTube.

The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.

Sunday, July 19

Music at 3pm

Experimental Sound Studio Garden
5925 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a musician based in New York. They work with synthesis, household electronics, amateur acoustic instrumentation and voice to make studio compositions and live performances. Lately their work sublimates the latent aggressions of feminized labor into anxious and beautiful music. They are one half of Iris Our with Kiera Mulhern and they collaborate with Theodore Cale Schafer, Madeline Stepien, and Michelle Luong. Previous releases include full length albums for Recital and Reading Group.

OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos and presented by Experimental Sound Studio. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a 'salon' format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform. Click here for past OPTION performances.

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