Chants and Dave Schoepke | Lorna Dune | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Chants and Dave Schoepke | Lorna Dune

Auricle New Music Series welcomes Chants and Dave Schoepke on Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 7:00pm, in support of their new album Speleogenesis. Opening the show will be keyboardist and electronic music synthesist Lorna Dune. Free admission, donations encouraged.

Wisconsin-based producer and drummer Chants (The Trilogy Tapes, Maximum Airtime, Astral Plane Recordings) meets master drummer Dave Schoepke on the all-drums LP Speleogenesis for Brussels-based Maloca Records. Speleogenesis blends live drumming with dub techniques and dancefloor-informed production, guided by imagery of a subterranean world. It’s a full-circle moment, as the two met when Chants (a.k.a. Jordan Cohen) took drum lessons from Schoepke during his teenage years. The recording process began with Chants creating skeletal demos for Dave Schoepke to improvise on. Schoepke recorded many layers of drums and percussion, running some of them through his hardware synthesizers. Chants then shaped these recordings, resulting in the final tracks on Speleogenesis, to be released on October 11, 2024.

Opener Lorna Dune is the solo project of Lorna (Krier) Milgaten, a virtuosic pianist, keyboardist, producer and collaborator of chamber ensembles, synthesist in electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making experimental sound together. Lorna Dune's compositional style ranges from ambient, meditative, long form, immersive electronic and orchestral scoring to higher energy electronic dance music and experimental sound.

Speleogenesis by Chants and Dave Schoepke

 

Chants

Producer, drummer, and DJ based in Wisconsin. Releases on Astral Plane Recordings, Impossible City Records, etc. Runs Limited Resources label.

Dave Schoepke

Dave Schoepke is a uniquely admired and respected drummer and percussionist whose wide-ranging approach always puts meaning and substance ahead of virtuosity. Whether holding down the groove in a prog rock or singer-songwriter band, composing layered avant-garde or meditational music, or letting loose in free and freewheeling improvisational settings, Dave is always hailed for his musicality, professionalism, and his thoughtfulness as an artist and a human.

A lifelong resident of the Greater Milwaukee area, Dave has been a drummer and collaborator with the Willy Porter Band since 2002. He has also had the pleasure of touring with legendary Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre, who says, “Dave is a wonderful musician, extremely diligent, caring and an amazing team player on and off the road.”

Dave’s first solo project, Drums On Low (2019), has received acclaimed reviews from Modern Drummer, Recording Magazine, and numerous global on-line music... Read More

Lorna Dune

Lorna Dune

Lorna Dune is the solo project of Lorna (Krier) Milgaten, a virtuosic pianist, keyboardist, producer and collaborator of chamber ensembles, synthesist in electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making experimental sound together. Her style has ranged from polyrhythmic, sci-fi fantasy techno, celestial house, ambient contemplative, experimental noise and psychedelic dreamwave. 

As a child raised in rural Wisconsin, her first instrument was a Casio SK-5 keyboard sampler her mother picked up from a thrift store. She started piano at age 6, began composing by hand in 4th grade, learned the software Cakewalk and Fruity Loops on a public school computer in the 90’s, and went onto college where she studied piano and organ.  She participated in the Bang on a Can Summer Institute residency at MASS MoCA in 2005 and was so inspired that she moved to New York City in her early 20’s.

After dropping out of NYU’s master program when starting to get gigs, she became... Read More

This event is made possible by support from Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission with additional funds from Wisconsin Arts Board. Additional funds also provided by Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. Support also provided by generous individual donations.

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