Circuit des Yeux | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Circuit des Yeux

Auricle New Music Series welcomes Circuit des Yeux on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 7:30pm. Tickets $20 general admission or $15 student/ALL Member in advance online, or $25 at the door for everyone. Tickets available at https://circuitdesyeux.bpt.me.

In her review of the latest Circuit des Yeux album, -io, Allison Hussey at Pitchfork concluded, "[Haley Fohr] cuts through the din, singing, almost bellowing, buoyed by a boundless ferocity rarely afforded to women in any other context. Her maxims demand attention with the same gravitational intensity as the cosmic imagery she invokes: 'Descend bold traveler and attain the center of the earth,' she intones at the end of the cycloning 'Neutron Star.' Though the song begins as a loping country ballad, Fohr races upward into a braid of fuzzed-out guitar and strings made fiery by flares of brass."

Local keyboardist Emili Earhart wil open the show. She will perform the second of two works written for the piano at ALL. Earhart composed and performed the first of the two in the Spring of 2023, utilizing the breadth of the space and instrument, as well as the physical extent of the performer. 

Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 15 year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar. Her recent works include an Original Soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, her critically acclaimed 2021 album -io, and two LPs under the mysterious moniker of Jackie Lynn.

Keyboardist Emili Earhart earned her undergraduate degree in Piano Performance at UW-Madison's Mead-Witter School of Music ('17) under the instruction of Christopher Taylor. Notable performances at UW-Madison include John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for the Prepared Piano, and the complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass. She is currently based in Madison, WI and teaches piano in addition to performing with local projects including TS Foss and Graham Hunt. Solo, Earhart explores elasticity and expansion in the setting of cosmic minimalism at the keyboard.

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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