Martin Freeman & Michael Rosenstein
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xTAL fSCK
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Dan of Earth
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Ritwik Banerji
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Friday, November 15th, 2025
8 PM Doors, 8:30 Start
$10-15 suggested donation

Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL
tritriangle.net


Martin Freeman & Michael Rosenstein
Martin Freeman a Buffalo, NY-based improviser, toolmaker and tinkerer working predominantly with sound and electronic circuits in the overlapping disciplines of instrument-building, installation, arts education and performance. His production practice concerns new ways of making music informed by deep investigations of electronic circuits and working methods that complicate the roles between performer, instrument and audience. He has taught art and electronics courses at SUNY at Buffalo and has led workshops in electronics at Eastman School of Music, Detroit School of Arts High School and Rhizome DC. For several years he ran the synthesizer company Mroztronium specializing in unpredictable and intuitive instruments. mroztronium.blogspot

Michael Rosenstein is an improviser who works with sound-gathering devices, amplified surfaces, salvaged instruments, and simple oscillators. He records extensively at ocean beaches, bogs, subways, city walks, in everyday domestic settings and as part of architectural investigations utilizing microphones, photo diodes, contact microphones, hydrophones, and electromagnetic sensors. He develops the sounds he gathers, utilizing them as raw sonic sources or transforming, distressing, and combining them, probing the unstable sonic results.


Michael performs solo as well as in ongoing collaborations with musicians including Jesse Kenas Collins and Howard Martin, Steve Norton, Angela Sawyer, Andrea Pensado, and Vic Rawlings, as well as ad hoc performances with musicians such as José Rivera, Arkm Foam, Seamus Williams, Mickey O’Hara, and Abdul Sherzai.

Michael writes about improvised and composed music for the web sites Point of Departure and Dusted


xTAL fSCK
Chicago-based Jon Satrom and Jason Soliday have been performing together in a variety of collaborations since 2004. As xTAL fSCK, their audio, video, and new-media work stems from a profound distrust of audio, video, and new media.


Dan of Earth
(Milwaukee, WI)
Ancient man gained mastery over his environment through the use of tools–simple machines allowed him to lift heavier objects and kill larger animals. Dan of Earth (plenty primitive himself) uses the same philosophy towards muzak production — developing machines and algorithms to do things he cannot do himself, like compose and perform “musical” tasks.

Dan of Earth is coming at this noise thing from a far dorkier standpoint than some of his colleagues, as can be seen by his influences: audio artifacts like Symphonies of the Planets, VLF radio, numbers stations, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, soundtrack to Forbidden Planet (1956), and anomalous sounds like Bloop and the Taos Hum.

Dan of Earth has spent the last 20 years trying very hard to not learn to play any “real” instruments, and has largely succeeded in this. He uses homebuilt electronic and acoustic devices, and writes simple c++ programs when hardware musical solutions are impractical.

Dan of Earth considers circuit-bending to be “totally cheating”, but has no problem stealing “found sounds” from pretty much everywhere.


Ritwik Banerji
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posted: October 23rd, 2024