Dal Niente teams up with multi-instrumentalist and composer Macie Stewart for a free evening of sound and music at Elastic Arts, featuring music by Macie Stewart, alejandro t. acierto, and Emma Hospelhorn.
For the past year and a half, Macie has been working on new solo material involving prepared piano, field recordings, and string improvisations/compositions. For this performance, Lia Kohl, Whitney Johnson, and Zach Moore will join Macie to perform some of this unreleased material, as well as excerpts from Mouth Full of Glass alongside members of Ensemble Dal Niente.
Set I : Ensemble Dal Niente
alejandro t. acierto, in sitting with (2024) for four players
Emma Hospelhorn, Logrus Voice II (2024) for electric guitar and winds
Emma Hospelhorn, flute
alejandro t. acierto, clarinet
Matt Oliphant, horn
Jesse Langen, guitar
Set II: Macie Stewart
Macie Stewart, piano/voice
Lia Kohl, cello/voice
Whitney Johnson, viola/voice
Zach Moore, upright bass
About Macie Stewart
Macie Stewart is a Chicago based, multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, songwriter, and improviser. Stewart primarily works with piano, violin, voice, guitar. From a very young age Macie was drawn towards sound; learning to communicate with music while simultaneously learning to communicate with words. Stewart’s experience as an open collaborator and composer in her own right has led her music to become fluid and expansive- drawing on all that has come before while intentionally searching for something new. Mouth Full of Glass was her debut solo project in 2021. Since then, Macie has created two full length sound installations, Hisako's House (2023), a site-specific multimedia piece involving dance, visuals, and music with choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams; as well as The World Doubles in Size (2024), a quadraphonic sound installation through Experimental Sound Studio at Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago, IL. Stewart is also a founding member of the band Finom, who have released four full length records, created the multi-media theater performance, Full Bush, and have been touring internationally since 2016.