Matchess (Chicago) feat. Haley Fohr & Lulu Asplund, Josh Dean, and Jeremy Hyman

Saturday, June 15

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Tickets: $13 adv/$15 day-of
Doors at 6, show at 7

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Matchess “Hav/Stena” Tour June 2024

In anticipation of alter ego albums Hav/Stena to be released on Drag City in September 2024, Matchess (AKA Whitney Johnson) enlists Haley Fohr (AKA Circuit des Yeux) and Lula Asplund to turn down the energetic temperature and settle into a mellow expansion of sound. With three marimbas, sine waves, viola, voices, and electronics, the trio will invite us to experience sonic doubles in our bodies and minds. Their individual practices in experimental music, sound art, and performance will invoke the “two against three” principle to
alchemize a fresh collaboration on this tour of the American East.

Whitney Johnson is an artist based in Chicago who uses sound to explore relationships between bodies and minds. As Matchess, she composes, performs, and installs multi-channel sound from the viola, voice, sine waves, tape looping, and field recording. In tandem with her sound practice, she received her doctorate in the sociology of sound from the University of Chicago in 2018 and begins as Assistant
Professor of Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in August 2024.

Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 15-year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar. Fohr has released 5 commercially released albums to international acclaim. Her stage performance as Circuit des Yeux has won her slots at world renowned music festivals
such as Roskilde (DK), MOOG Festival (US), Pitchfork Festival (US), OFF Festival (PL), Sydney Festival (AUS) and more. She is currently represented by Matador Records.

Chicago-based artist Lula Asplund combines digital and analog sound synthesis with tape manipulation and vocal manipulation to explore perceptual vanishing points and create derelict vignettes and lattices of sound. Lula holds a BFA in music from Mills College and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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