Sunday November 16 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Dave Scanlon writes austere songs and continues a series of "counting" compositions focusing on intonation and measurement. He has released music on Ramp Local, New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik Records, Hometapes, Clean Feed Records, New Atlantis Records, and Whatever's Clever. Scanlon has performed with Jason Ajemian, David Behrman, Chuck Bettis, Hayashi Eiichi, Alvin Lucier, Jessica Pavone, Yamamoto Seiichi (of The Boredoms), Alena Spanger, Otomo Yoshihide, and numerous others. Scanlon will be performing selections from Greenland Shark, an album written about the North Atlantic fish, Somniosus microcephalus. In addition, he will perform "Monochromatic Pool", a piece written for guitar and narrator about the exoplanet Proxima Centauri B.
Brett Naucke is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL currently based in Asheville, NC. Naucke's sonic output has been primarily focused on marrying an ever-evolving practice of synthesis with conceptual narratives. His most recent recordings have been released by a wide variety of acclaimed labels such as American Dreams, Spectrum Spools, Umor Rex, L.I.E.S, and Hausu Mountain in addition to many others since 2010. Beyond live performance, Naucke has provided the original scores for several films, sound design for interactive gaming, and presented many works for multi-channel audio and video installations. Additionally, Naucke ran the Catholic Tapes record label from 2007-to 2015, releasing just shy of 100 documents of American underground electronic music focussed heavily on Chicago-based artists and a visual vehicle for Naucke's photographs and visual art. He was a member of the legendary Avant-art collective ONO from 2012-2017, and has been a collaborator both live and in recording for acclaimed acts such as Ryley Walker, Bitchin Bajas, Tortoise, Pulse Emitter, Cloud Nothings, TALSounds, Bill MacKay, Matchesse.
Natalie Chami (TALsounds) is a Canadian-born Lebanese American musician and educator based in Alexandria, VA. Known for her work in drone, ambient, and improvisational music, she blends vintage analog synthesizers, operatic vocals, and immersive atmospheres into distinctive sound worlds. Chami has released music on Ba Da Bing, NNA Tapes, and Hausu Mountain, toured across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and received coverage from Pitchfork, The Fader, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune. Her latest album, Shift (2023), departs from her warm analog palette and explores FM and digital synthesis, featuring contributions from SWANA women in production, art, and photography.
Chami was founding Vocal Chair at The Chicago High School for the Arts (2009–2021), developing the voice department and trauma-informed, anti-racist curriculum. She also leads workshops, scores films, creates sound installations, and is the Category Content Specialist for Synthesizers at KORG USA. In 2025, she joined the Artist Advisory Council at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS).
Max Hamel is a craftsperson, musician, artist and instrument maker with diverse practices ranging from professional fine violin luthiery to handmade live electronics. Their performance work builds upon a foundation of circuit bending, feedback, magic, touch and chaos, delighting in subtlety, pliable gesture and flippant ambiguity. Raised in the DC metro area, they recently moved back to Washington, DC from New Haven, CT where they lived since 2019, working as a luthier and performing in basements, bookstores, galleries, warehouses, crypts and libraries throughout the northeast United States. They perform and release solo work under the names Max Hamel, HSFB, and Head Separating from Body, and play in groups including Rear Window (with Zach Rowden and Rex Morris), Cut Nails (with Rex Morris) and Chicken Flag (with Matt Wellins).