The Quarantine Concerts: OPTION presents Molly Jones
$5 suggested donation
Watch live video from Experimental_Sound_Studio on www.twitch.tv
6pm-7:30pm Pacific (8pm-9:30pm Central)
Molly Jones, saxophone and electronics
This week Option features Molly Jones. As an extension of the regular Monday night concert series, Option curators invite artists to perform, improvise, and discuss their work on the Quarantine Concerts stage.
”I have had the pleasure of hearing Molly’s sound world develop beautifully over the short time that she has been in Chicago. Her saxophone improvisations, while informed by the past, are clearly blazing a way forward into the future. In addition, her electroacoustic work, incorporation of video, and use of ‘electroacoustic environments’ as vehicles for improvisation gives her work a multi-dimensional range that’s both noteworthy and unique."
–Tim Daisy, Option curator
Molly Jones’ compositions range from through-composed chamber works to graphic scores to electroacoustic environments for improvisation, incorporating video, movement, and words.
She has performed with musicians including Saul Williams, Nicole Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey, Robert Ashley, Jaribu Shahid, Ed Sarath, Kei Akagi, Alex Harding, Paul de Jong, Wadada Leo Smith, Andrew Bishop, Douglas Ewart, Joo Won Park, Elliott Sharp, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Marion Hayden, Matt Kiroff, Angel Bat Dawid, and many friends in the US and Canada. She has been commissioned by organizations including ThreeForm, the Detroit Composers’ Project, and Detroit Fringe theater festival; her video installations have been presented at Rooms To Let Cleveland, FireFish Festival, and Detroit Contemporary; and her poetry can be found in Saul Williams’ Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, Matchbox Magazine, and her zine Moon Jar.
She premiered her opera-ballet Acting On Air in October 2019.
The Quarantine Concerts are a collaborative endeavor meant to provide artists a space to share their work and continue to earn a living during this time when most live performance opportunities have been cancelled due to COVID-19. We believe in the necessity of art during difficult moments like these, and feel fortunate to live in a time when loss of mobility does not have to mean loss of community. Thank you for being here.
Watch the livestream here:
• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/experimental_sound_studio
• Website: https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Suggested donation of $5/evening – think of it like paying cover to a concert! 100% of the donations contributed during each performance go to the artists who played that night.
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