Winter Sound Benefit for Side Yard Sounds 2025!

Name: Winter Sound Benefit for Side Yard Sounds 2025!
Start: 2025-01-18T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-18T21:30:00-06:00
Location: 244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302 | Oak Park, IL

Wintersounds 2025:
Wintersounds in 2025 kicks off with a special fundraiser for future programming at Compound Yellow. Tickets start at $20 (more if you are able). Purchase tickets here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/compound-yellow/winter-sounds-benefit-concert-for-side-yard-sounds-2025
Our goal this year is to raise $7,200 to cover the costs of paying musicians and providing refreshments at each of 12 very special events curated by local musicians/organisers featuring sound, experimental compositions, dance and movement, light, video projections, visual art and more in 2025! We will announce the list of curators at the event itself and be selling season tickets at a discounted rate of $120 for all 12 events, that is $10 per event! Pay it forward and help us make Side Yard Sounds 2025 the best ever!
This season at Wintersounds will be special one! The performers and the listeners will be immersed in sound with special Quadraphonic Performances! The performers will be preparing their pieces to have sonic elements be dynamically thrown around the room to 4 different speakers, which will create a unique sonic spatial experience. Please come with curiosity! The performers will be located in the center of the space so we encourage listeners to move around during the performances, as every spot will provide a slightly different aural picture. Hope to see you there!
Playing on Jan 18th will be:
The Shape Of (Mahlmeister, Katsaounis, Levinson)
Paige Alice Naylor
Wavefiler
Kim Nucci
Musician Bios:
The Shape Of:
Donny Mahlmeister and Theo Katsaounis started playing music together around 2004 in the avant-rock Chicago band, A Tundra. They weren't interested in all of the fame and success so they decided to disband and mingle with other bands like Early Day Miners, Joan Of Arc, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Aitis Band, Dead Rider, Judson Claiborne, Bora Bora, and many more. Donny and Theo continued to play and skateboard together over the years as Shred Aquarium and various improvised projects, but more recently they decided it was time to shape up. As a result, they started the ever transforming 'The Shape Of...' and have continue to grow. They have released two records under this moniker; the most recent this fall on Tone Deaf Records. They will be joined by drummer/percussionist/synthesist extroardinarie, Jamie Levinson.
Paige Alice Naylor:
Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist, sound artist and educator. Through sound-making and performance, she investigates time, perception, the breakdown of language, themes of death, and acoustic ecology. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate. Her work has been featured in The Wire, National Public Radio, Longform Editions, Newcity Art, Chicago Reader, surgeryradio, and WHURK Magazine, among others.
Wavefiler:
Milwaukee, WI area artist, Wavefiler aka Steve Zydek, uses synthesizer hardware, tape recorders and computer-aided composition methods to create electronic music that is experimental, ambient and sometimes beat-driven. Sonic explorations range from tape-driven textures to repeating and evolving melodic figures. Wavefiler also focuses on developing synthesized sound designs to aid meditation and healing.

Kim Nucci:
Kim Nucci is an Oakland-based media artist, composer, and technologist. As a musician, they perform on electronics, modular synthesizer, and saxophone. As a visual and sound artist, they create interactive installations using architectural interventions, sculpture, arduino and other microcontrollers, idiosyncratic interactive design, painting and projections. They also VJ, and create generative and audio-reactive video art for live musical performance.