2022 LOW END performances

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announces its 2022 LOW END performance schedule.

LOW END is Bemis Center’s music venue and an integral part of the Sound Art + Experimental Music program. The unique artist-designed space features free live shows by local, national, and international sound artists, composers, and experimental musicians. These performances aim to not only build new audiences and a greater appreciation for nontraditional forms of music but also liberate artists to take risks and present truly avant-garde work. 

Performance schedule

jaimie branch—January 6, 8pm CT
jaimie branch, a Colombian-American Brooklyn-based musician and artist, expands the technical limitations of the trumpet and the musical language of free jazz and improvised music.

Molly Joyce—February 10, 8pm CT
Molly Joyce’s work is concerned with disability as a creative source. The Fairfield, CT-based artist has an impaired left hand and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ that engages her disability on a compositional and performative level.

TALsounds—February 19, 8pm CT
Natalie Chami, a Canadian-born Lebanese American, adopted the TALsounds moniker for her explorations in the drone, ambient, and improvisational disciplines.

Elder Ones—March 25, 8pm CT
Brooklyn-based vocalist Amirtha Kidambi is the composer and bandleader of  Elder Ones with Matt Nelson, Max Jaffe, and Nick Dunston. Kidambi sings on harmonium and draws her vocal influence from both Indian Carnatic and Western Classical training.

jaimie branch: FLY or DIE—April 29, 8pm CT
jaimie branch returns with her band FLY or DIE to perform jazz and improvised music.

Crank Sturgeon—May 12, 8pm CT
Foaming at the gills with pockets full of thrift store novelties, homemade transducers, and costuming collaged from mailbox circulars, Crank Sturgeon utilizes such finery to marinate noise and lower case art interruption.

Ya Tseen—May 21, 8pm CT
Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Nicholas Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂ and creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. Alongside bandmates Zak D. Wass and Otis Calvin III (OC Notes), Galanin brings this experience to bear as Ya Tseen. 

Eli Keszler—June 2, 8pm CT
Eli Keszler is a composer and percussionist based in New York City. Known for his complex and intricate style of drumming and sound installations involving piano wire and other mechanisms to accompany his live performances, his shows have involved visual elements such as Keszler’s drawings, diagrams, screenprints, and writings.

FUJI||||||||||TA—June 16, 8pm CT
FUJI||||||||||TA is a sound artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises.

KIKÙ HIBINO—July 14, 8pm CT
Chicago-based and Japanese-born sound artist KIKÙ HIBINO produces cross-genre electronic music. 

Sarah Hennies with Judith Hamman—August 18, 8pm CT
Sarah Hennies is a composer based in Ithaca, NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer and trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Naarm/Birraranga (Melbourne), Australia, now based in Berlin.

Marcus Fischer—October 6, 8pm CT
Marcus Fischer is a first-generation American sound and visual artist who creates, collects, and transforms audio into immersive, layered soundscapes that accompany performances and installations.

Additional shows are to be announced at bemiscenter.org/low-end. 

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LOW END performances also stream live on Facebook and Twitch. 

LOW END performances and Bemis Center’s Sound Art + Experimental Music Program are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. LOW END performances are also supported, in part, by Trudy and Larry Lundquist. Additional support provided by New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund.