Playing on the floor together, Misa Sourour and Liz Flood will perform a domestic ritual using radios and toasters - sounds and smells from beyond.
Bios
Liz Flood is a sound artist working with radio as both an instrument and a medium to communicate from a distance. They are interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. She is curious about what radio would sound like if we didn’t listen ‘to know’? How can we, the listeners, interact with radio if we understand transmission to be an asking act, an event of curiosity? Can we walk not just amongst, but inside radio waves? Flood is a collage artist who works with sonic, textual and visual materials and listens for what is revealed from the act of juxtaposition. She tends to find work (and play) most interesting when creating a system and being curious about the outcome, rather than seeking a particular end result.
Misa Sourour is an Egyptian carny from the Jersey Shore. They will either swindle you or give you the shirt off their back. As a Muslim born on Christmas, she decided to take up woodworking to compete with Jesus.
Sourour starts off every morning with the same "50s Jukebox Favorites" cassette tape playing in the bathroom, Turkish coffee that boils over, no matter how hard they try, protein of sorts and copious amounts of supplements. LSD flashbacks happen on the daily as she's jointing and planing wood.
Sourour has lived a thousand lives as an ex-painter, puppeteer, slideshow wannabe, day-tripper, hooper, contortionist, post chef, baker, student, teacher, student, farmer, runaway, hippie (sadly), thru-hiker, disabled, dishwasher, delivery boy, nanny, addict, pizza maker, asthmatic chain smoker, failed barista, not-very-good musician, 2010 blogger, sober, hungry, loner, rebel, cowboy, false butcher, gluten-free cheater, clown, angle finder, and toaster wrangler.
While on hiatus from touring with the band Phish and the Dead, they developed an interdisciplinary sculptural art practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon are an improvising clarinet and organ duo whose work focuses on tuning, harmonic stasis, duration, and repetition.