pt.fwd presents Hali Palombo and Mark Booth

Name: pt.fwd presents Hali Palombo and Mark Booth
Start: 2024-10-04T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Illinois Art Station

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Illinois Art Station | Normal, IL

Chicago-based artists Hali Palombo and Mark Booth will present new works to kick off pt.fwd's 2024-2025 season at Illinois Art Station.
Palombo will be presenting a longform sound collage composed from original classical composition and hundreds of numbers stations collected from shortwave radio during COVID lockdown. The numbers stations are creatively manipulated to sound otherworldly, romantic, and in some cases, nothing like what they are.
Booth will speak and play small sounds in a new piece for pt.fwd.

Hali Palombo is a radio host, composer, visual artist and filmmaker from Chicago, Illinois. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about the Midwestern United States since a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings and paintings.
Palombo is an avid practitioner of “plunderphonics”: sampling existing musical/aural works and intertwining them into something brand new, whether it’s shortwave radio and CB radio samples, wax cylinder audio, and field recordings taken from Midwestern points of interest. She also draws great inspiration from endless adventures throughout the country - be them on Google Maps or in her car - often photographing, filming or drawing her findings.

Mark Booth is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. His work in language, image, performance, and sound, explores the tensions between observation, description, invention, and the generative possibilities of error. His work often explores the material qualities of language, as well as the ways that language functions or fails to describe experience. Having learned to read and navigate the world as a dyslexic, Booth uses his work to make sense of his own slippery experience with language, error, hearing, seeing, understanding, and meaning.
Booth teaches creative writing and sound art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where his courses focus on the historical and creative aspects of audible poetics, language-based sound art, concrete poetry, text art, and poetic process. He frequently creates audio for the projects of other artists for live performance and installation..
Booth received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited, played, and performed his work in a variety of established, peripheral, and obscure venues in the United States, Scandinavia, Australia, and Germany.
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All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public.
pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
pt.fwd's mission is to celebrate the communal experience of coming together to listen to powerful new sonic art. In partnership with the McLean County Museum of History, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting.
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