drF
Works-In-Progress Showing
Thursday, June 9
8 PM / $10 Suggested Donation
High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL
The oratorio drF by High Concept Labs Sponsored Artist Mark Hardy is set in a grey future city of stripmalls and vending machines. A storefront Private Eye is drawn into a secret underground world to battle a megalomaniac doctor from outer space and his perverted nurse who collect humans to fuel their robot minions and hideous monster hybrids.
CAST
Private Eye — Stanley G DeCwikiel, Jr.
Client & Synth Nurse — Ashlee Hardgrave
Nurse — Nathalie Colas
Dr. F — Vince Wallace
BAND
Drums — Tommaso Moretti
Bass — Daniel Thatcher
Piano — Jeff Kowalkowski
Guitar Synthesizer — Julia Miller
Electric Viola — Nora Barton
ABOUT MARK HARDY
Mark Hardy was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He studied music composition at Carnegie Mellon University with Nancy Galbraith, Lukas Foss, Leonardo Balada, and Eduardo Alonso Crepo, and at Northwestern University with Amnon Wolman, Jay Alan Yim, and Alan Stout. His music has been played and broadcast all over the world by Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Butchershop Quartet, Hara Quintet, Articular Facet, and Soundings, and at festivals such as Aspen Music Festival, I-Park, BAMF, Produce, Chicago Home Theater Festival, and the Canadian Flute Conference. Past commissions have been from Nike, MTV, VH1, Nicktoons, HP, and GM. He is a student of the sitar, currently studying with Indrajit Banerjee. He has produced, written music for, and performed and engineered recordings by K-rad, Terry Callier, Irons, Euphone, Resinator, and his own solo work.
ABOUT HIGH CONCEPT LABS
High Concept Labs (HCL) supports artists and facilitates dialogue between artists, audiences, and staff. This increases access and transparency to the artistic process and fosters transformational experiences in an environment of experimentation and discovery. highconceptlabs.org
HCL is supported in part by the generosity of MANA Contemporary Chicago, the Chicago Community Trust, the MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Norwottock Charitable Trust, The Samuel J. Baskin Charitable Trust, The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation, and individual donors.