At the culmination of an artistic residency taking place at AMAC, this trio, whose collective CV commands respect (with paths that span composition, improvisation, and collaborations with some of the most restless figures in the Chicago scene), appears at OUT.FEST surrounded by admiration and the ongoing chorus of praise for “BODY SOUND”, released earlier this year on the ever-reliable International Anthem label.
Working from improvisations for a string trio — violin, viola, and cello — and voices, in interplay with analog tape processing, they far exceed the expected limitations of chamber music to shape a sound of dense, unsettled presence. In the interplay of vocal harmonies, repetition, incantatory melodies, and sinuous passages, something emerges that registers as memory without being so: a music entirely their own, without time or place, a form of tradition without origin that only rarely allows itself to be sensed in this way.