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8:30pm.bearings explores how we occupy space and orient ourselves around sound, time, and place. Through varied instrumentation, electronics, spatialized sound, and light, the works of this program invite us to reconsider how we listen and how we relate to one another.
Music by Simon Steen Andersen, Kaaija Saariaho, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, and Kelley Sheehan, with premieres of new works by Kalaisan Kalichelvan and Mara Mayer.
Zoe Markle - Double Bass
Nolan Ehlers - Percussion
Mara Mayer - Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Gramm Drennen - Cello
Kalaisan Kalichelvan - Electronics
Kelley Sheehan - Electronics
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About the artists:
Zoe Markle is a Brussels / Chicago -based double bassist specializing in new music, improvisation, and chamber music. She has performed across the US, Canada, EU, and the UK with recent notable appearances at Bang On A Can’s LOUD Weekend, the Glasgow Cathedral Festival, and the Bozar Percussion Festival in Brussels. She is a member of Belgium’s Extended Music Collective, and is currently pursuing a certificate in Deep Listening.
zoemarkle.com [https://zoemarkle.com/]
instagram.com/zoe.markle/ [https://www.instagram.com/zoe.markle/]
Nolan Ehlers is a percussionist/performer of new music, experimental music, and improvisation. He creates improvisations and compositions that use amplification and electronics to explore the acoustic possibilities of percussive instruments.
nolanehlers.com [https://www.nolanehlers.com/]
instagram.com/ehlersnolan [https://www.instagram.com/ehlersnolan/]
Gramm Dessen
Gramm Drennen is a cellist based in Chicago. Specializing in contemporary music, Gramm has performed at Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend, Semiosis Quartet, and with the Regenerate! Orchestra in Southeast Michigan. Gramm performs in an array of styles and configurations from viol consorts to orchestral and chamber music, and currently performs with the Chicago Composer’s Orchestra and Lakeview Orchestra.
instagram.com/graghm [https://www.instagram.com/graghm/]
Mara Mayer
Mara Mayer is a clarinetist/composer/improviser creating work informed by the natural world and exploring the liminal space between acoustic and electronic sound. Mara has worked with a wide range of ensembles from classical music to free improvisation and is the Artistic Director/Clarinetist of Soft Knee Collective and Founder/Curator of Home Audio Series. Mara holds degrees in both Cognitive Science and Music Performance.
maramayermusic.com [https://www.maramayermusic.com/]
instagram.com/basicbcl [https://www.instagram.com/basicbcl/]
Kalaisan Kalichelvan is a composer and musician based in both New York, NY and Toronto, Canada. His compositional practice spans multiple disciplines, drawing from film, dance, theatre, and installation.
Named by Ludwig Van as one of “six emerging Canadian composers to keep an eye on [https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2022/02/25/feature-six-emerging-canadian-composers-keep-eye/]” and Playback’s 10 to Watch [https://playbackonline.ca/2024/10/15/playbacks-10-to-watch-2024-kalaisan-kalaichelvan/], his music has been performed and premiered by celebrated ensembles such as the Bozzini Quartet, Albany Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Glenn Gould New Music Ensemble, MACE, and NMC Ensemble.
kalaisanmusic.com [https://www.kalaisanmusic.com/]
instagram.com/kalaisan13 [https://www.instagram.com/kalaisan13/?hl=en]
Kelley Sheehan is a composer and electronic musician moving between electro-acoustic, multimedia, and performance art works.
Her work has been described as "full of discovery, collaboration, and unpredictability” (Iannotta, Kyriakides, & Stäbler) and “shatteringly visceral" (VAN Magazine, ty bouque).
In any medium, her work constructs environments meant to merge electronic and acoustic forces into one composite organism, dependent on this merging to become more than just an extension of itself. Her work focuses on sculpting noise, shifting materiality, housing structures, and machinery.
kelleysheehan.com [https://www.kelleysheehan.com/]
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