OUTER-INNER: Live Music, Live Video | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

OUTER-INNER: Live Music, Live Video

Mills Folly Microcinema presents OUTER-INNER, a night of expansive music with audio-reactive video art, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:00pm. Tickets are $15 ($10 student/ALL member) in advance online at https://outerinner.bpt.me, and $20 at the door for everyone. Doors open at 6:30pm.

OUTER-INNER will feature musicians Def Sonic, Niels Jorgensen, and Seth Klekamp as well as visual artists Peter Charles Allen and Ryan Lansing. The video art experience will utilize old video broadcast switchers sent into analog visual feedback combined with video synthesizers and layered visual loops.  The visual setup will be reacting in real-time to a musical performance from Def Sonic, who will be performing tracks from his whole catalog, including debuting tracks from a newly released album, For the Rest of Forever. Expect a rainbow bloom of colors with content exploring how the biggest and smallest parts of our world echo each other's form. Ancient visual technologies will blend with cutting-edge visual warping software in time with live music to provide an immersive multimedia experience. 

Please note: Flashing visuals have the potential of triggering seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

 

ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA

Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art work from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.  

Def Sonic blurs genres with trippy tones, layered beats, samples/loops, synths with percussive strums/heartfelt vocal melodies.

"Madison based recording artist Def Sonic (DS) started because of insomnia which you can kind of hear in the music. All of Johan’s stuff lives in "The Land Of Nod." It’s like yacht rock heard faintly through the walls of a sensory deprivation tank. Like his music, DS is warm, inviting and something of a mystery. Don’t bother trying to solve it. The mystery is the answer." —Free Dirt

Madison native Niels Jorgensen has always been an avid sonic explorer. Along his musical excursion he enjoys navigating through earth's genres, traversing new musical tools, gathering vinyl from around the globe and marveling at the genius of fellow musical voyagers.

Seth Klekamp is a Madison-based artist and musician. Nature and the passage of time are recurring themes in his work. He is a member of the band Mossmen and a live collaborator with Def Sonic.

Peter Charles Allen is the host of the music program “One Fine Morning” on WORT-FM, and an engineer around Wisconsin's public broadcasting technological back-end. He has been messing about with video glitch-art in his free time, breathing new-life from old gear he’s saved from the dustbin of history.  

Ryan Lansing is a Madison-based musician, artist, and carpenter. His analog video art is driven by his fascination with the beauty of CRT screens, his belief that old technology is never truly obsolete, and his love of messing around with wires and knobs.

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 an generous anonymous donor.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

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