DV Cassette Club will be part of Open Source / Open Ear, which opens July 28 and runs through August 11 at Mess Hall in Rogers Park (Chicago). The website states:

The objective of this show is to bring into focus diverse sound practices that resist conventional modes of production, distribution, performance or perception.

Homemade instruments, atonal noise experiments, self organized and improvisational models of collaboration and performance, technological detournement and reappropriated consumer objects suggest a sustained undercurrent of subcultural sounding activity, gathered here for critical reflection, exchange and experimentation.

This exhibition will accommodate a gallery installation of submissions and projects and a series of daytime workshops and evening performances. This will be accompanied by a website, small publication and compilation cd.

Tim Ivison is the mastermind behind Open Source / Open Ear, orchestrating the numerous events, happenings, and performances being put on over the two week duration. You can peruse the Calendar for events that may spark your interest.

Sadly, DV Cassette Club won’t be performing live (I don’t even know that I could without more equipment and five more people). But there are three songs that will worm their way into the show in some form. Check it out, and enjoy some sound.