Lauren Deutsch and Jonathan Woods’ Tangible Sound: An Immersive Experience of Great Black Music

Saturday, September 27

time: 4:00pm-9:00pm

VENUE: Logan Center 2nd floor gallery. 915 east 60th st.

Tangible Sound is a salute to the 60th Anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

Experience a synesthetic series of projected animated sound palettes and abstracted performance portraits of musicians and their music in celebration of the sixth decade of a Black music collective whose philosophy and practice of exploding boundaries and convention has influenced and inspired generations of artists to express the exhilaration and transformation of what the AACM calls a “power stronger than itself.”

The exhibition includes visual compositions of the music of Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Zerang, Tomeka Reid, Tatsu Aoki’s Miyumi Project, the Sun Ra Arkestra and the AACM’s Great Black Music Ensemble with live music and performances accompanying the images.

Lauren Deutsch is the former executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago and has spent the past 45 years documenting Chicago’s jazz community with her camera. Inspired by the musicians of the AACM, she began to experiment with digital photography as a way to interpret the energy, texture and scale of creative improvised music, with the idea of conveying the enormity of the experience and the way it challenged conventional assumptions and frequently illuminated unexpected horizons.

Jonathan Woods is an award winning filmmaker, motion visual artist and member of the AACM. Over the years he has dedicated himself to crafting narratives that transcend conventional mediums, utilizing light, motion, and sound to evoke emotion and provoke thought. He sees this project as an extraordinary opportunity to amplify these principles as well as celebrate the AACM's gifted musicians that inspire this work.

saturday, september 27

4:00PM - 5:00PM SET 1 Avreeayl Ra + Peter Maunu

5:00PM - 5:20PM Break 20 min > Interactive light painting!

5:20PM - 6:20PM SET 2 Avreeayl Ra + Peter Maunu

6:20PM - 6:50PM Break 30 min

6:50PM - 7:50PM SET 3 Ed Wilkerson + Jamie Kempkers

7:50PM - 8:10PM Break 20 min > Interactive light painting!

8:10PM - 9:10PM SET 4 Ed Wilkerson + Jamie Kempkers

sUNDAY, sEPTEMBER 28

2:00PM - 3:00PM SET 1 JoVia Armstrong + Coco Elysses

3:00PM - 3:20PM Break 20 min > Interactive light painting!

3:20PM - 4:20PM SET 2 JoVia Armstrong + Coco Elysses

4:20PM - 4:50PM Break 30 min

4:50PM - 5:50PM SET 3 Mwata Bowden + Dushun Mosley

5:50PM - 6:10PM Break 20 min > Interactive light painting!

6:10PM - 7:10PM SET 4 Mwata Bowden + Dushun Mosley

This exhibition is supported by The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, The Oppenheimer Family Foundation, Delmark Records, a Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artists Grant and contributors Dawoud Bey, Cynthia Bittenfield, Michelle Boone, Joel Deutsch, Joseph Glossberg, Joseph Harrington, Howard Mandel, Barry Mayo, Kathy and Dennis McDonough, Julia Miller, Brian and Laurie Myerholtz, Chuck and Ann Nessa (Nessa Records), Jim and Susan Newcomb, Joanie Pallatto and Sparrow (Southport Records), Rose Parisi and Don Meckley, Lesley Picchietti, Sangram Sisodia, Cheryl Yuen and Tom Chin, Terry Whitebook, and Jack Zimmerman.