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Quicksails

Quicksails is the recording project of Chicago-based producer and multi-instrumentalist [a=Ben Billington]. Central to the Chicago experimental scene and its various veins across the midwest and national DIY circuit, Billington has been championing freak music of all stripes for over a decade at this point. He has performed as a member of numerous ensembles including [a=ONO], [a=ADT (6)], [a=Circuit Des Yeux], [a=Tiger Hatchery], and [a=Ryley Walker]’s band. In an improvised setting, he has collaborated with a stable of musicians including John Olson (solo and with [a=Wolf Eyes]), [a=Rhys Chatham], Mark Shippy ([a= U.S. Maple]), Owen Gardner ([a= Horse Lords]), and [a= Paul Flaherty]. Billington’s role as a producer at Chicago avant epicenter Elastic Arts and his co-curation of the venue The Hideout’s long-running Resonance Series has paired future-facing acts from around the world with Chicago’s finest to enrich the city’s thriving progressive music scene with stimuli of the highest, headiest order. His work with Chicago non-profit foundation Experimental Sound Studio has grown recently to include a lead role in their series The Quarantine Concerts, setting up diverse bills of international luminaries for live-streamed concert events.

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