SAM ROWELL: CALL OF THE CHROMOPHORE A series of performances in light and sound December 9-16 8 days / 8 shows / 8 PM FREE Limited Capacity / Prompt arrival recommended – “An abstract investigation into the quantum nature of color and the relationship between perception, metaphysics, and language” – With a site-specific installation of lights, and an array of audio electronics, Sam Rowell navigates trips through undulating fields of color, flurries of flash, and patches of pitch darkness. Simultaneously improvising sequences of deep hues and alien soundscapes, hers is an expansive practice of perceptual play – literally spectacular and sensational. For Call of the Chromophore, Rowell has created within Human Resources an ad hoc theatre of light and sound to stage a series of 8 performances over the course of 8 days, at 8pm each evening. Each show comes with a tasty title – and a heady introduction – providing a set and setting for the journey. Exploring themes around electromagnetic radiation and the cosmos, Rowell is also literally playing with the material of such, bouncing photons off the wall to explore specific frequencies of visible light, and – of course – vibrations within the human range of hearing. Rowell’s preference for group reception and live performance are key to her inquiry into the subjective. Rather than just color itself, her palette includes the varied perceptions of audience members’ sensations of color. How do we talk about what we see? Do we see the same thing, or are words a compromise to forge a consensus reality? – Sam Rowell lives and plays in Los Angeles. Recent solo light and sound performances include: Dissolving the Sky, Hunter Shaw Fine Arts (2021); Dark Energy & Spectral Redshift: A History of the Universe, as told by Cosmic Radiation, Dem Passwords & And/Or Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Looking Through the Gravity Lens: An Evocation of Sound as Radiant Energy, Work Related, Austin, TX (2019); Trichromatic Phenomena in the Service of Induced Color, Eternal 30 Festival, Houston, TX (2019). Rowell is the bassist for celebrated radical improv duo Eloe Omoe, produces the live sound collage broadcast Special Collections, and is part of the creative and engineering team of Lookout FM. – Friday December 9 The Electromagnetic Enigma Saturday December 10 Wells of Poison, Columns of Smoke Sunday December 11 Newton Invented Indigo Monday December 12 Lovecraftian Perceptual Color Theory Tuesday December 13 Earth People: Controlled by Gamma Light Wednesday December 14 Color Confusion Thursday December 15 Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: Blackbody Radiation as it Relates to Hue Friday December 16 White Light Unimagined by Dark Matter All shows at 8 PM