The music of meditation
Matchess is the alter ego of Chicago-based artist Whitney Johnson. With the limited palette of a 1960s Ace Tone organ, violin, some tuning forks, sound generators, reel-to-reel tape, field-recordings and her voice, she creates sound collages of ephemeral songs on a bed of ambient drones. She has recently collaborated with for TALsounds (as Damiana), Brett Naucke, Ryley Walker, Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci and Sarah Davachi, among others. Artists you could already experience in the past in AB (Salon). During our BRDCST-festival, on April 9, Matchess will also play in the band of Circuit des Yeux. In addition to her music practice, she holds a PhD in 'sociology of sound' from the University of Chicago.