Tracking Chimaera – a peripatetic guide (2020)

This live-streamed concert project gave voice to “the sprawl of space/time/flesh in aggregations of techno-biologic complicities”. Book has been ‘tracking’ the figure-figment of the Chimaera (her preferred spelling) for over two decades. She considers tracking is as much tracing, ghosting, chasing, doubling back, losing the trail, taking a ponder, hiccup, heartburn, hiatus, or sheer jump cut. This radically wayward ‘guide’ serves as an expeditionary entreaty for returning to senses — deliriously deranged within and among body states — solid, liquid, electric, imaginary. Book deployed voice, processing, live sound effects, recorded materials as tools for her trek. She was invited to perform from her studio as of “Vox Effusis” — a live-streamed series curated by Lou Mallozzi for the Experimental Sound Studio’s “Quarantine Concert Series” in Chicago, at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic in June, 2020.

Volume 1: June 13, 2020, 2:00PM US Central Time (8:00PM UK, 9:00PM Europe)

2:00 Ute Wassermann (DE)

2:30 Jaap Blonk (NL)

3:00 Jacques Demierre & Vincent Barras (CH)

3:30 Lynn Book (US)

Volume 2: June 27, 2020, 2:00PM US Central Time (8:00PM UK, 9:00PM Europe)

2:00 Audrey Chen & Phil Minton (DE/UK)

2:30 Alessandro Bosetti (FR)

3:00 C. Spencer Yeh (US)

3:30 Pamela Z (US)