Seasons change, and so do the sounds–a “play in three acts” of experimental songs, noises, and ambience!

Featuring:
Tony Moaton (harp)
Twilight Furniture (Daniel James Burke: piano, voice, electronics)
Ben Zucker (Alike Untils redux: vibraphone, electronics)

Admission by donation

Tony Moaton is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Oak Park, Illinois. Tony’s passionate about creating intimate and accessible spaces and places through deep research, creativity and collaboration.

Daniel James Burke presents Twilight Furniture: Experiential songs with Ambient motives, fusing electronic and acoustic chamber music, cabaret lounge jazz, bedroom pop, minimalist composition, ambient, experimental & simple song structures.
Daniel James Burke is an improviser, composer & performer from Chicago using strings, piano, extended techniques, field recordings, synthesizer, & electronics. He has been making music since 1983 as Illusion of Safety & has recorded and performed with Olivia Block, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Darin Gray, Jon Mueller, Jim O’Rourke, CHEER-ACCIDENT, and has collaborated with Shen Wei Dance Arts. Recently he has started performing original music in singer-songwriter mode, in ambient mode as Twilight Furniture, and as Interim Assassin in an improv trio with Chicago musicians Erik Sowa & Jeb Bishop. Seeing musical tools & traditions as borders to cross and boundaries to play with, his interest in making challenging, exploratory music is now augmented by a desire to create music as spacious, beautiful and enigmatic as possible. Through interaction, environment, intention, & spontaneity, his intention is to connect space, performers & audience, believing sound can be a catalyst in reaching states beyond normal consciousness.

Ben Zucker engages in acts of creative juxtaposition and speculation as a composer, audiovisual artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Acclaimed as a “master of improvisation” (IMPOSE Magazine), and “more than a little bit remarkable” (Free Jazz Blog), they have contributed to experimental music scenes across North America and the UK with “stirring compositions…built on a lifetime of musical curiosity” (Chicago Reader), as well as albums, multimedia situations, and frequent performances on vibraphone, brass, voice, and electronics. They currently live in Chicago. Alike Untils (Out on 1473 Records) is Zucker’s latest solo project, an unpredictable, refractory collaboration of improvised vibraphone and emergent feedback sounds.