Photo by Molly Roth Scranton
Photo by Molly Roth Scranton
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Sam Scranton is a composer/performer/artist based in Chicago. He makes improvisational music with percussion and electronics. He creates evening-length tear-jerker conceptual ceremonies. He builds installations with friends that take the form of guided tours, psychedelic waiting rooms, and swarming sonic creatures.
Scranton has presented work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences, and performance series such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Indexical, Composit, NUNC! 3, New Music Gathering, Frequency Festival, the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Outer Ear Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Borealis Festival Radio Space, WFMT, and numerous online radio stations.
He also plays music in bands: Sandpusher (with Nick Meryhew and Andrew Tham), Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, Zach Moore), Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), Physique (with Neil Quigley), and has released records on Moon Glyph, Miúin, Amalgam, Parlour Tapes+, and Shinkoyo Artists Pool.
What others say:
"an artist taking wholehearted risks" – Ellen McSweeney, New Music Box
“[one of Chicago’s] most interesting sound explorers” – Marc Masters, Bandcamp Daily
“imbue[d]… with the sort of introspection that defines most great ambient and experimental music” - Levi Dayan, Chicago Reader
“field recordings from an imagined world” – Bill Meyers, Chicago Reader