Submitted by the Alchemy Art Center

Come visit this Sunday, July 28, Alchemy Art Center at 1255 Wold Road, for an evening of sound exploration from avant musician Matchess, currently on tour throughout the Pacific Northwest. The performance, to be held in Alchemy’s iconic geodesic dome, will be a meditative “sound bath” of sorts, enveloping listeners in a unique tonal experience.

In anticipation of alter ego albums Hav/Stena to be released on Drag City in Fall 2024, Matchess (AKA Whitney Johnson) enlists Haley Fohr (AKA Circuit des Yeux) and Jenny Pulse to turn down the energetic temperature and settle into a mellow expansion of sound. With three marimbas, sine waves, viola, voices, and electronics, the trio will invite us to experience sonic doubles in our bodies and minds. Their individual practices in experimental music, sound art, and performance will invoke the “two against three” principle to alchemize a fresh collaboration on this tour of the American South and West.

Whitney Johnson is an artist based in Chicago who uses sound to explore relationships between bodies and minds. As Matchess, she composes, performs, and installs multi-channel sound from the viola, voice, sine waves, tape looping, and field recording. In tandem with her sound practice, she received her doctorate in the sociology of sound from the University of Chicago in 2018 and began as Assistant Professor of Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in August 2024.

Local songwriters Libby Andersen and Glenn Hendrick will fill out the bill.

Show begins at 6:30 p.m., and costs $15 at the door.

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