Doors: 7:00
Show: 7:30

"Sounds Like Music To My Ears" -- A performance for scratchy objects, porcelain, styrofoam, foley, rubble, painful sounds, and sounds of pain.

Sam Anthem is an interdisciplinary artist whose sonic performances are dedicated to platforming the unique textures and agencies of affects, technologies, and inanimate things. Currently they perform with constructed steel pipe woodwinds and electronics.

Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist who gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended compositions.

She has worked with Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Vietnam), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Germany), UCLA New Wight Gallery (US), Manzi Art Space (Vietnam), World Forum For Acoustic Ecology 2023 (US), Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2022 (Germany), Terrain Biennial 2021 (US), Elastic Arts (US), Gene Siskel Film Center (US), Northwestern University (US), Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (US), and elsewhere.