Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose hybrid musical instrument sculptures, collage/drawings, performances, and audio-visual installations explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, sounds, and altered images in the intersections of art and music. Created primarily from urban detritus such as tennis rackets, hockey sticks, umbrellas, axes, snow shovels, rakes and discarded metal, his hybrid instruments express a poetic spirit of re-invention and hyper-utility. Virtually indescribable and unclassifiable, Butler mixes high and low technology and audio-visual antics to create an ancient/future music. His works have been exhibited and performed in galleries, clubs, museums, festivals, and theaters worldwide.
Ken Butler’s Hybrid Visions show will be on display at the Illini Union Art Gallery, Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, May 1, 2016. The formal opening will take place on Thursday, April 14, at 4:30 PM.
Sonified Sustainability Festival is on April 16, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Krannert Center lobby: Ken Butler will perform with local musicians Berimbau Bandit & the Caxixikid and Tony Taylor as part of the Sonified Sustainibility Festival - a celebration of ecological music and arts, curated by Jason Finkelman with support by the Student Sustainability Committee, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The festival includes interactive, sustainable art making and an information fair providing greater visibility of local projects, programs and organizations working towards a sustainable future.
For more information visit: http://sonifiedsustain.wix.com/home
Thanks to Laura Haber of Unit One/Allen Hall for this information item.
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