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Residency: Spectralina + Ben LaMar Gay / Frederick Wells

  • Elastic Arts 3429 W Diversey Ave #208 Chicago, IL 60647 (map)

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 5, 2024 at 8:30 PM at Elastic Arts featuring Spectralina + Ben LaMar Gay / Frederick Wells

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.

Ben LaMar Gay

Ben LaMar Gay is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, poet, and patently eclectic polymath who Afropunk has called “strikingly original,” Pitchfork has called “uncategorizable,” and Jeff Parker has called "hands down, one of my favorite musicians on the planet today.” He channels a radical array of sound, color, and space through the universal language of folklore; but despite the widely attributed genius of his work, his artistic approach and general demeanor are characterized by an endearing humbleness and warm humanity.

Frederick Wells


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.