Δ Akio Jeimus (akiojeimus.bandcamp.com) — Drummer/improviser originally from Chicago, currently residing in Japan. In 2023, he joined the Osaka-based band goat (jp), and has been playing festival stages in Europe including Rewire and Moers. As an improviser, Akio has collaborated with a wide array of world-class artists including Toshimaru Nakamura, Eiko Ishibashi, Otomo Yoshihide, and Geordie Greep. In 2021, Akio self-released Multipresence, a collection of self-recorded drum set solo improvisations, and has independently toured Japan five times since. In December 2024, he will embark on his first tour as a solo artist, taking him to various venues and states across the American Midwest.
Δ Michael Hartman (tvpow.bandcamp.com / kuronekomusic.bandcamp.com) — Michael Hartman is an improviser and composer currently living in Chicago, USA. He has released and performed music as a solo artist and as a member of Superposition, TV Pow, Boris Hauf’s Next Delusion, Bed, Solt, 7000 Dying Rats, and The Father Costume. Hartman has appeared on over 50 releases and was a founding partner of the now completed record labels, Gentle Giant Records and Kuro Neko Music.
Influenced by everything from American country music and international techno to the sounds of his urban environment Hartman explores and embraces future electronics, free music, soundscapes and contemporary compositions. His portfolio includes recorded works, sound installations, music for dance, and live performances that utilize synthesizers, samplers, drums and percussion ,and surround sound speaker systems. Hartman has performed and recorded throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Δ Julian Urrego (KS) — Colombian American guitarist currently based in Wichita, KS. He has come up in various scenes within Kansas and Texas and, after quitting his engineering job to focus on music, is now studying jazz guitar at Wichita State University. As a songwriter and band leader he has composed and performed his brand of progressive acoustic rock under the outfit Sombre Sangre. He’s since continued to explore a variety of genres, including improv, rock en español, thrash metal, d-beat, and folk. Current projects include the WSU Guitar Ensemble, the jazz combo Order’s Up, and a duo with fellow guitarist Andrew Highbarger. He has studied with David Lord, William Flynn, and Tom Burchill.
∆ Kirsten Carey is a guitarist, composer, shamisen player, and pop culture writer. She has traveled back and forth to Japan on grants from the Asian Cultural Council and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her primary project is experimental rock band Throwaway, and you can hear her music on The One Piece Podcast.
∆ Todd Carter b. 1971, Pontiac, Michigan (electronics, keyboards)(@belairsound linktr.ee/belairsound tvpow.bandcamp.com lumpenradio.com/shows/bel_air-presents) is a Chicago Audio Engineer/Producer, Composer, DJ, and Improviser running bel_Air sound studio. An active member of Chicago’s experimental music scene, Carter performs with and records the most respected musicians and composers in a wide variety of genres. As both a soloist (and with TV Pow and Superposition) TC travels and records throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, UK, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, France, and Poland.
∆ Norman W. Long is a multi-disciplinary sound, video, and performing artist. His practice involves walking, collecting, performing, and recording to create objects, environments, and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, ecology, race/ethnicity. space, value, silence, and the invisible. The sounds found in his work has its inspirational roots in the Black music of house and techno, ‘free jazz’, Great Black Music, Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, Pauline Oliveros, King Tubby, Dub, and the sounds of artists outside and in-between genres. Long’s improvisational and compositional strategies are inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s palimpsest text “Plague Journal ” chapter of Dhalgren (Science Fiction) and Atlantis: Three tales (Fiction) and Mark Bradford’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art: Chicago in 2011 featuring Bradford’s process of collecting and collaging, scraping and pasting materials sourced from his community in Los Angeles.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
8p doors, 8:30 start
$10-15 suggested donation
Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave Fl3
Chicago, IL 60622
