Winter Sounds: Whitney Johnson Donny Mahlmeister Rs Masters Open Seki
Schedule
Sat Feb 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302 | Oak Park, IL
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Get your tickets here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/compound-yellow/winter-sounds-whitney-johnson-donny-mahlmeister-rs-masters-open-sekiSaturday, February 22, 2025
7:00 PM 10:00 PM
Compound Yellow
On Feb 22nd, Winter Sounds 2025 continues its second installation of the series at Compound Yellow. 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 Feb 22nd will be:
Whitney Johnson
Donny Mahlmeister
Rs Masters
Open Seki
Whitney Johnson:
For more than 15 years, the music of violist, keyboardist, and singer Whitney Johnson has been a powerful through line connecting various local underground scenes. Since 2009 she’s been developing the outstanding solo project Matchess; she’s been a member of a dizzying number of groups, including the 1900s, Verma, and Circuit des Yeux; and she’s launched collaborative projects such as Damiana, a duo with Natalie Chami, aka TALsounds. Early in March, she performed as part of the first live show by yet another noteworthy new group, Who Is the Witness?, whose lineup also includes Tim Kinsella, Jenny Pulse, and percussionist Jon Mueller.
Donny Mahlmeister:
Donny is an Oak Park based musician and designer with a focus on improvised music using modular synthesizers, guitar, lap steel and other electronic processing. His recent solo work encompasses elements of minimalist soundscapes intersected with abstract guestural movements. In addition to his solo work he currently collaborates with Jamie Levinson and Theo Katsaounis as The Shape Of. Prior to moving to Oak Park, Donny had been a long-standing member of the Chicago and Midwest rock and improvised scenes, working with A Tundra, Judson Claiborne, Early Day Miners, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Toby Summerfield, Ryan Packard, Jamie Branch, Catherine Young and Bill McKay.
Rs Masters:
Rs Masters (Teddy Schrishuhn) is a Chicago-based ambient and experimental musician. Live performances and studio recordings often utilize synthesized sounds with nature-based field recordings, samples from the Library of Congress, live terrestrial radio and pedal-processed foley instruments.
A midwestern native plant enthusiast and gardener, Rs Masters draws inspiration from lives lived by the local and migratory pollinators and birds often lost in the juxtaposition of natural habitats in urban environments.
Rs Masters is a founding member Kayaks Collective (a Chicago-based tape label and creative collective)
Open Seki:
Open Seki is the newly formed collaboration of John Biggers and Nathan Tucker. For their first ever set—with the help of various electronics, lapsteel, and mixing board manipulation—the goal is a full-spectrum exploration of spatial and melodic themes.
Nathan Tucker: For a main vocation, a long career in applied textiles has become a great influence on his linear compositions, with a special focus on reimagining color palettes and textures. (Previous releases on Skam, Consumers Research & Development, Plus Tapes, Wobblyhead, Lumpen, Johann's Face)
John Biggers: A professor and filmmaker from Nashville, KY with an unhealthy obsession with oscillations and CB pedals. Loves mohair and sequins.
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Where is it happening?
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302Event Location & Nearby Stays:
