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Sound Observations: Maria Chavez & Christina Carter
05/11/18
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
A musical performance and lecture series presented by Sonosphere in collaboration with Crosstown Arts
Maria Chavez, an abstract turntablist/sound artist/DJ of Lima, Peru, and vocalist/guitarist/pianist Christina Carter will collaborate on a performance.
Free and open to the public (reserve free ticket on Eventbrite)
Doors at 7:30 pm | concert at 8 pm
About Sound Observations:
In this four-part series highlighting new explorations in sound, musicians, composers, and scholars from across the country will showcase their unique talents through performances and lectures. Listen and experience sound as art through a variety of different approaches and mediums.
About the artists:
Sound artist Maria Chavez utilizes accidents, coincidence, and failures to unite her sound sculptures, installations, and other works with her solo turntable performance practice. Routledge Press chose Maria to be on the cover of the latest edition of their Electronic and Experimental textbook that is distributed widely throughout academia. The book is used in universities and music programs all over the world as a first-year course for students interested in the world of avant garde and electronic sound practice.
Maria wrote her first book on her unique approach to abstract turntablism in 2012 titled, OF TECHNIQUE: Chance Procedures on Turntable (currently out of stock), a book of essays and illustrations that guide the novice turntablist to explore the world of needles and vinyl through the lens of deterioration, destruction, and the unexpected.
Maria regularly teaches workshops introducing students to her turntable practice all over the world and has been a research fellow with the Sound Practice Research Department of Goldsmith’s University of London since 2015.
She presents lectures on sound art, improvisation, multi-channel speaker installation practice, most recently for Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Stony Brook University, the Contemporary Arts Museum-Houston, Berklee College-Valencia, Spain and others later in the fall/winter season.
Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since, she has deeply mined her own vein of art-as-music with voice, guitar, and piano. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures, and recently, investigated ‘the song’ as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on ‘the word’- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretations of the work of other lyricists. In addition to performing extensively in the US, UK, and Europe as a solo artist, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Heather Leigh Murray (as Scorces), Maria Chavez, Loren Connors, Chris Corsano, Dredd Foole, Sandy Ewen, Paul Flaherty and Thurston Moore.
About Sonosphere:
Sonosphere is a Memphis-based podcast aimed at exploring sound in music and art movements through history and today. Past podcasts have featured ICEBERG New Music Collective, John Cage, Martin Heyne, and Memphis Concrete, among other artists and music events.
