
Metro Presents... upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
Sleeping Village
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Chicago
Wednesday, September 16 at 9 pm CDT
Electronic
Nightclub
Wednesday, September 16 at 9 pm CDT
Electronic
Nightclub
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$25 Adv + Fees | 21+
As electricity blossoms and leafs glisten, upsammy creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent comfort and desolation. With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an organic touch as a gentle hum of nature digitized. During her live shows she creates kaleidoscopic terrains built from micro textures and field recordings, fluidly mixing between inner and outer environments.
Guided by an adventurous and narrative approach, this vividness is present in her DJ sets as well. The music she plays takes cues from trippy electronics, the more experimental side of DnB and oddball techno, but tries to avoid clear genres. As a DJ she consolidated a firm position in the contemporary left-field music world, which includes a residency at NTS Radio and Amsterdam club Garage Noord and invitations to festivals such as Unsound and Rewire.
Having studied Image and Media Technology at the Utrecht University of the Arts, Thessa Torsing (real name) is intrigued by the rhythms and vibrational qualities of her surroundings – shaping a singular aesthetic that blurs the synthetic – natural divide. As a multidisciplinary artist she researches these interactions through sound, photography and video, explorations which simultaneously influence her music production process. Since 2017 Torsing has released a string of singles and EPs on labels Nous’klaer Audio, AD93 and Die Orakel. Her gift for full-length composition is showcased through her albums (Wild Chamber, 2019) on Nous’Klaer Audio, (Zoom, 2020) on Dekmantel, (Germ in a Population of Buildings, 2023) on PAN and (Strange Meridians, 2024) on topo2.
Valentina Magaletti is a drummer, composer and percussionist whose goal is to strategically enrich a folkloristic and eclectic palette through endless listening and experimentation with new materials and sounds. She has performed and co-written with many artists including Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Raime, Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis (Wire, Dome), Tightpaul Sandra (Coil, Spiritualized, Julian Cope), Thurston Moore, Bat for Lashes, Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), and many more. In her current project, Vanishing Twin (Fire Records) she has a more conventional jazz approach that finds its escape in the drone/field recordings of the percussive approach in her other main experimental/avant- garde duo Tomaga. Valentina was born in Bari, Italy, and is based in London.
Presented by Sleeping Village.
This is an 21+ event

