Every Tuesday in March, Homeroom Residency presents SPECTRALINA: The audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp.
Special guests will join Spectralina for four multidisciplinary performances at Elastic Arts. All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.
March 19, 2024 at 8PM at Elastic Arts featuring Spectralina + Amalea Tshilds / Lia Kohl
Spectralina
SPECTRALINA is the audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp: collaborators, lovers, and magicians.
Working in an improvised format, Spectralina creates an image-sound relationship that treats each medium equally, resulting in performances in which projection and sounds come together as visual music.
In Spectralina, Dan uses a computer, synthesizers, drums, voice, and analog processors to create sounds. Selina sings, animates, and plays the videolah, an instrument that creates real-time animated projections.
Amalea Tshilds
Amalea Tshilds is a songwriter and singer from Chicago, IL. She is a founding member of the alt-country group Girls of the Golden West and has also released a solo record, Painted Tiles, with an all star cast of collaborating Chicago musicians. In her latest record, Love on the Ground, slated for release this February her unique voice and dreamlike orchestrations explore complex roots in folk and choir. Backed by Chicago favorites Joseph Adamik, Elise Bergman, Gillian Lisee, and Sam Wagster, Love on the Ground presents nine mystical love songs for impossible times. Recorded by Dorian Gehring and with guest appearances from Marydee Reynolds, Caroline Campbell, Holly Stevens, Ben Clarke, Jim Becker and Doug Mccombs.
Lia Kohl
Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs sonic landscapes utilizing cello, synthesizers, field recordings, and live radio to explore the mundane and profound possibilities of sound. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Chicago Symphony Center, and Eckhart Park Pool. Recent releases include Untitled Radio (futile, fertile) on Longform Editions, and The Ceiling Reposes on American Dreams Records. She is the 2023 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow.
Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Chicago Tribune, and Downbeat Magazine, and on NTS Radio, Kunstradio, Chirp Radio, and WNYC. Recent collaborative releases include duos with Macie Stewart (Astral Spirits), Honestly Same (Moonglyph), and ZRL (American Dreams Records).
As an improviser and collaborator, she has participated in cultural exchanges in Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, China and the UK, and toured on four continents. An active recording artist, she has arranged strings and recorded with Makaya McCraven, Circuit des Yeux, Steve Gunn, claire rousay, and Steve Hauschildt, among others. As a sound and visual artist, she has presented gallery shows at Roman Susan Art Foundation and Experimental Sound Studios’ Audible Gallery. She has been a resident artist at ACRE, Vashon Artist Residency, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Stanford University, and Mills College. She tours regularly with puppet theater company Manual Cinema.
About Homeroom Residency
Homeroom Residency is an ongoing initiative to provide reliable, paid performance work to Chicago artists. The residency gives artists space to develop existing collaborations and explore new ideas. Residency is directly supported by individual donors.