Bloody Wednesday: TALsounds, Blessed Blood (Seattle), anatole, wrtch, Julia Mellen, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, Da’Niro Elle Brown

Bloody Wednesday is a night to invoke the symbolic, etheric, and physical manifestations of menstruation and the process and pain involved with shedding projected futures, past identities, and unknowable potentials. Highlighting performers who express work that contains abstract wisdom, chaotic form, and other non-linear qualities that patriarchal society has long associated with Feminine evils, on each new moon which falls on a Wednesday we climb back into the womb and release our collective fear of the dark.

TALsounds

Natalie Chami adopted the TALsounds moniker in 2009 for her solo explorations in the drone, ambient, and electro-acoustic improv disciplines. In live performance, Chami’s analog synthesizers weave together into drifting loops that evolve in tandem with her vocal leads and choral harmonies. Her meditative sessions stretch into hypnotizing depths of stream-of-consciousness multi-instrumental input, sinking into expanses of infinite sustain and cresting into bursts of noise from an arsenal of oscillators and effects pedals. She has toured the country and performed on five physical releases as a member of drone improv trio Good Willsmith, including their debut LP The Honeymoon Workbook (Umor Rex, 2014). Chami performs as half of ambient duo l’eternebre, and co-founded the experimental collective/netlabel Screaming Claws. She was born in Ontario and lives in Chicago.

Blessed Blood

Blessed Blood is an electronics-based project by Seattle’s Rachel LeBlanc. Utilizing hardware effects to expand upon the natural resonances of singing, she processes harmonies into “noise hymns,” wherein ethereal vocals glide above pulsations and sharp angles. The sound is informed by the artist’s life-long home of the PNW, traditional music forms and choral assemblies, and the exploration of history both personal and cultural, resulting in what is at once familiar and unsettling.

anatole

Jason Hoffman of the power ambient group CHORD creates vibrant embers of slow burning sounds buried in layers of soot and ash. His pieces rise subtly and unexpectedly, swallowing a room whole.

wrtch

wrtch is the solo noise and soundscape project of Ambrosia Bartosekulva, based in Chicago by way of Seattle. Her music attempts to understand and resonate with the innermost wounding of existence inside the solace of self.

Julia Mellen

Doing a special live performance piece, Julia Mellen is a Brazilian-American raised in Kentucky who currently attends The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She makes work in Chicago about the lasting effects of sexual assault and identity as a third culture person in the United States.

Carlos Salazar Lermon

Carlos Salazar Lermont is a Venezuelan artist, producer and curator. He is a performance art specialist, although his work includes photography, video, installation and others. His concrete and direct work addresses thematics such as atheism, Venezuelan social crisis and futility of life.

Da’Niro Elle Brown

Screening a trailer for upcoming film, SOFT, Da’Niro Elle (1993) is a multidisciplinary visual and performance artist, Her work is based on her exploration of the human form, her body of work tries to create a distinct aesthetic using a multitude of media from sculpture, and performance, to video, and photography. Her collections of work reveals a keen interest in process, and evolution of sexuality and intimacy to form. These interests are informed by contemporary society, future speculation, and biological development.