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Compound Yellow’s ‘Winter Sounds’ is a series of indoor events in the cozy upstairs gallery space that features a handful artists or groups from a variety of backgrounds and locations. The general motif of the evening is focused on shorter improvised sets in the electronic/electro-acoustic/ambient genres. This evening features artists from Chicago and Oak Park.

Donny Mahlmeister / Eli Caterer:

Donny Mahlmeister is a Chicago/Oak Park based musician and designer with a focus on improvised music using modular synthesizers, guitar, lap steel and other electronic processing. He currently collaborates with Jamie Levinson as Levinson/Mahlmeister (Trouble in Mind Records) and Theo Katsaounis (Joan Of Arc). Donny had been a long-standing member of the Chicago and Midwest rock and improvised scenes, working with A Tundra, Early Day Miners, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Tobin Summerfield, Ryan Packard, Jamie Branch, Catherine Young and Bill McKay.

Eli Caterer is a founding member of the long-time Chicago greats The Smoking Popes. While he’s known for his impeccable melodic rock guitar playing in that outfit, he’s also an accomplished solo artist. Using elements such as Casio Sk-1, guitar and a myriad of pedals, Eli weaves intermingling sonic landscapes that never forget his melodic roots at heart.

Daniel Wyche:

Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer, and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recordings and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations and multichannel guitar. He has been a curator with the Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago since 2013, where is work has been described as “crucial” by Dusted and “vital” by the Chicago Reader. In March of 2020, Daniel co-founded The Quarantine Concerts in collaboration with Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The series has been widely praised as a model for online/streaming live music. Along with his solo guitar work, Daniel is involved in several ongoing collaborations, most notably the trio of Wyche, Mark Shippy (US Maple), and Ben Baker Billington, as well as new work with longtime collaborators like Patrick Shiroishi, Lake Mary, and many others.. His most recent solo record, “Earthwork,” was released on American Dreams Records in 2021.

John McCoy:

John McCoy is a musician living in Milwaukee. Since he moved here in 96, he's preformed and recorded with Castle Broadway, an improvisational music collective. The last few years, John's focus has turned toward the modular synthesizer as his main solo instrument and musical output. Lately he has been exploring more live patching for performances. Giving the audience a chance to see how a patch is built as the music builds as well.

Chris Salveter / Jamie Levinson:

Christopher Claiborne Salveter is a Chicago-based songwriter and DJ who performs under the name Judson Claiborne and DJ Lil' Boy With a Beard. Raised in a Missouri river town-turned suburb, his earliest musical influences were oldies radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes. Chicago's indie record labels and bands of the late 90s beckoned him to relocate there in 2000. Soon after, he started the group Low Skies (2000 - 2006) , who released four records and toured the US relentlessly. Even though Salveter's work is primarily word based, this will be his first foray into modular synthesis performance, using spoken word and Nature Sound LPs as source material for sonic manipulation.

Jamie is a percussionist and sound designer from Oak Park, IL. His compositions weave acoustic elements with controlled voltage.

Solar Winter:

Solar Winter is Chicago-based musician Alex Schone. As a strong believer in music’s power to heal, he uses field recordings, tape loops, electroacoustic experiments, guitar drones, and more to calm and relax the listener. He currently has two albums available with a third coming soon.