Lauren Deutsch and Jonathan Woods’ Tangible Sound: An Immersive Experience of Great Black Music is a salute to the 60th Anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

Saturday, September 27

TIME: 4:00pm-9:00pm

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

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 spoken word 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.

The musicians:

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