On July 18th every year, artists, educators, and scientists of all ages and backgrounds around the world observe World Listening Day, a holiday dedicated to the awareness of sound and acoustic ecology. Join us this year to celebrate! On July 18th at 3pm, the Creative Music Guild will host an afternoon of music, open dialogue about sound, and conversation about experimental sonic design. Catch performances by LTD Time and Anthony J. Stillabower / Mike Gamble as well as prompted discussion by sound artist Isabella Febbroriello. We hope to see you there!
If you are interested in coming please email send mike@creativemusicguild.org for location. Keep in mind this event space does not have ADA access.
LTD Time is a sound collective featuring acclaimed Portland performers Allie Hankins (tape manipulation and voice), Shao Way Wu (upright bass), and John Niekrasz (percussion). LTD Time uses extended acoustic techniques, emancipatory structures, analog time-folding technology, and discursive play to construct a sense of elasticity in the present moment.
Isabella Febbroriello is a Boston-based multidisciplinary artist focused in sound, time, and sculptural technology. Their main themes of artistic intention provoke audiences to ground themselves or wallow in awareness of their bodies, minds, and spaces.
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Anthony J. Stillabower presents an improvisation shaped by voice, feedback percussion, and machine learning algorithms. Situated at the threshold of audibility, his approach to sound inhabits a terrain of friction and flow, where presence flickers between memory and material flux.
Guided by Annea Lockwood’s observation that ‘rivers create their sound by the way they interact with the materials in their banks through friction’, this performance asks: What is the source of a sound? Is something sounding now?
Listening becomes a percolation—of a music, an environment, a moment.
Playing becomes the sediment of what has been remembered—vitalizing manifold mixtures, toward a gust of something unlearned.
