SONIC COLLIDE-O-SCOPE

Featuring Kim Alpert, Jasmine Mendoza, Cristal Sabbagh, Paul Giallorenzo , and Anton Hatwich. Excerpt from performance at Elastic Arts in 2018 with Support from the mediaThe Foundation.    Scan Lines is a collaboration between movement, sound, and video inspired by transformational visions of energy leaving the body and returning to the universe. The mix of organic and electronic sounds, combined with human movement and analog video speak to the duality of our modern spiritual landscape.   MORE INFO: https://www.scanlines.live/about

Livel 5: La Irmanda’ Thel Glaci
Livel 6: OxúmOxosi
Livel 7: Las Saturnales

Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas al fin de los tiempos) is a live and video performance suite imagining our world in a future timeline which covers 1500 years. The landscape of this future world - its denizens, artifacts, and culture - provides both a site for considering new realities and alternative histories, unfettered by the current social order, while serving as a distorted lens aimed at our present in keeping with the tradition of dystopian science fiction. Though interested in the possibilities for liberation that lie for those of us oppressed under capitalist systems and the violent organizational frameworks of race, class, and gender, this work is seeded with ambivalence about what possibilities lie on the other side of ecological decline for our species.

Neighborhood Listening Garden is a 2 speaker sound-system and native plant garden installed at the Jeffery Manor Public Library’s Reading Garden in South Deering Community Area in Chicago, IL from September 21 - October 31 2019. The South Deering community area is a former steel industrial area located on the south east side of Chicago and is home to majority Black and Latinx residents. It was the home of Wisconsin Steel Works, originally the Joseph H. Brown Iron and Steel Company, South Works (US Steel), Iroquois Steel and Republic Steel. There are several neighborhoods that make up this community, South Chicago, Jeffery Manor, South Deering and Slag Valley. The two speaker outdoor sound system plays a composition made from recordings from analog synthesizers from his home studio and Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, Sweden, Jeffery Manor, Bessemer Park, Calumet Park, Van Vlissingen Prairie and Big Marsh Park. 

The garden provides a space for reflection, an alternate mapping of the southeast side of Chicago, inquiry (what does a black/brown community sound like?), ecological restoration and resilience in the face of community disinvestment. 
released November 25, 2019 

Norman W. Long: 

field recordings and analog synthesizers 

This program was presented in partnership with ThreeWalls, Chicago Public Library, Jeffrey Manor Branch Library and City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. It is made possible by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Alphawood Foundation, and by Helis Foundation with support from Catherine Edelman.

Featuring audio recorded dreams collected as a part of an on-going hotline project.

Audio co-produced by Charles Rice 

Mal de Ojo (Evil Eye) is a musical composition that speaks to the power of gaze, both in the recipient and the gazer. It calls on the ancient power of sequins to reflect and dispel a malevolent gaze, as embodied by the similarly titled "Mal de Ojo" embroidered textile piece (Guerrero, 2017). This textile piece, which is a hybrid Cuban and Puerto Rican flag that incorporate the mal de ojo, or evil eye, symbol instead of the central star, is a talsman of protection for Black and Brown islanders against US imperlalism and colonization. A trip hop beat underscores this mystical and folkloric symbolism with a dystopian soundtrack, sampling the characters of The Oracle and Neo from The Matrix series to echo my continued entanglement in the matrix of colonization and capitalism. My voice and my defiant return of the viewer's gaze open and close the circle on this spell of protection. This performance was filmed by ColectivoMultipolar and Julia Zinn, edited by ColectivoMultipolar, and recorded live at TRQPITECA Studios Chicago, 2019.

VEGA is an interdisciplinary project that includes performances, writing, video and mixed-media drawings/collages and objects that explores histories of Black escapism and the future of renegotiations of human hierarchies amongst other species during escape routes into the skies and into the waters.

VEGA is an interdisciplinary project that includes performances, writing, video and mixed-media drawings/collages and objects that explores histories of Black escapism and the future of renegotiations of human hierarchies amongst other species during escape routes into the skies and into the waters.

Official artwork for It Was A Rebellion Mixtape