Side Yard Sounds presents: Sharon Udoh & Ben Willis with guests Allen Moore and Bill Harris.
6pm to 8pm
$15 tickets here: https://www.ticketleap.events/.../side-yard-sounds...
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Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Their performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeño pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, and magnetic. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Ben Lamar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, and on this particular night, Ben Willis, Bill Harris, Allen Moore, Vincent Davis, and Paige Naylor.

Ben Willis is a musician and artist from the midwest United States. He plays bass and writes music with saajtak, Lovely Socialite, and Throwaway. Using improvisation as a path into interdisciplinary collaboration, he has spent much of his career making work with dancers, visual artists, writers. He has been able to work with many inspiring artists, from the legendary dancer Sally Gross, to Guggenheim Fellow Pope.L, to transgressive novelist Kathe Koja, with whom, over the 7 years he lived in Detroit, he worked on numerous immersive theatre works. He also teaches workshops on improvisation, and advises artists in the creation of new work. He's produced recordings with Teiku (577 Records) and Michael Malis with Virago (Made Now Music). His solo project subatlantic songs is a theatrical performance for solo amplified double bass and voice. It has been in performative development since 2015, taking shape through gradual distillation of improvised material and staging limitations, including an imposing egret mask sculpted by Ann Arbor artist Mary Perrin. Performances include Cleveland's Re:Sound Festival, and Detroit's Strange Beautiful Music.

Bill Harris is a prominent Chicago-based percussionist, improviser, audio engineer, and curator working in areas of improvisation, jazz, noise, rock, and bluegrass. Presented both nationally and internationally, Bill's work focuses on a number of dedicated groups, ad hoc groups, and solo work, with over three decades of experience studying, practicing, and creating music. Some of his most frequent collaborators include Ishmael Ali, Carol Genetti, Emily Beisel, Dave Rempis, Jim Baker, Norman W. Long, Mai Sugimoto, Eli Namay, Nick Meryhew, Brianna Tong, Molly Jones, Keefe Jackson, and Josh Berman. In 2015, he started Amalgam, a 100% artist-run collective and label dedicated to showcasing works of improvised and experimental music in Chicago and elsewhere. Amalgam has been widely recognized in publications such as The Wire, and has been a vital tool and resource for promoting both emerging and established artists from Chicago and elsewhere, drawing from and representing the hugely diverse and collaborative music scene of Chicago. In 2020, he started and co-operates a recording studio called Marmalade, where he also curates performances for local and traveling artists.

Allen Moore is a Black Interdisciplinary Visual Artist, Experimental Turntablist, Sound Artist, Educator and Youth Mentor born and raised in the Historic Village of Robbins, IL. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including Tritriangle, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lula Cafe.