TICKETS

7pm Doors / 8pm Show
Presented as part of the '‘Extended Play’’ fall mini-festival. 

Two solo sets and a collaborative duo improvisation from sound artists Maria Chavez and JayVe Montgomery.

Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Coincidence, chance and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sculpture, visual art, and book objects. Her approach is rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor Pauline Oliveros. Using the rare RAKE Double Needle - a device capable of reading two different segments of a single record at the same time -  Maria creates unforgettable sonic experiences from shards of broken records with each performance being truly unique.

JayVe Montgomery is a Chicago sound artist who finds home in “Outer Music City”, Tennessee. Active in improvised music since the early aughts, JayVe is an inaugural member of Theaster Gates’ Black Monks of Mississippi; an ascetic of David Boykin’s Sonic Healing Ministries; and an alum of the Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Institute’s Intensive I. He is a 2024 National Endowment of the Arts grantee for his current compositional research project Lake Black Town, explicating the challenge of uncovering Black American stories from below floods of racism while using water and earth as a medium for sound. His electro acoustic woodwind and percussion experiments can be found everywhere music is available.