Working in tandem with ESS's Creative Audio Archive, Hutchins is currently soliciting rare materials (ephemera, bootlegs, magazines, articles, interviews, newspapers, photos, essays, etc.) that document Chicago’s legendary underground music scene of the 1990s, for potential inclusion in a large public archive. You can contact him at hutchinsdomenic@gmail.com Stay tuned for an online essay/public talk on ‘90s Chicago's international permutations.
After completing archival research at Yale's Music Library, Hutchins is preparing their first screenplay, which will be released in the form of a radioplay. Hutchins and an associate are currently completing a translation of a German-language monograph for English-language publication on free jazz, improvisation and “nobody’s music”, to be announced later this year.
Hutchins works as an artist assistant for Paul Brown. One artist-run label Hutchins is involved with is Open Systems Records which is currently accepting demos. Recent research he has contributed includes this Outer Sounds interview, while recent editorial work for publication (2018–present) has centered on contemporary Continental political philosophy, with a keen eye to the aporetic political subject. Hutchins is always happy to consider work in the realms of mixing, production, writing, editing, collaboration, organizing, research and art direction. Due to current time constraints, they are unavailable to give performances at this time. CV available upon request.
Domenic Hutchins (b. 1991, U.S.) received undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy before entering the fields of art criticism and the antiquarian book trade. Between 2017 and 2019, Hutchins presented a diverse selection of rigorous research at a range of conferences on subjects including Andrew Durbin’s contemporary eco-poetics, Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic political philosophy, and differing approaches to archival research in and outside the university. Through labels such as HighsmithPsy (US) and Superpang (Italy), Hutchins has presented acoustic and electronic music works with disparate collaborators including poet Adrienne Herr, improviser Ananya Ganesh, composer Greg Davis, among others. In 2023, the music of Ganesh and Hutchins (as Mme Sand) was selected by Berlin-based curator Juliette Henrioud to be played on the Mallorcan channel Nits de la Tramuntana (see below).
An avid organizer of creative music concerts in the Northeast (and North America more broadly), Hutchins has in 2022 and 2023 installed an extensive public-facing archive of ‘90s Chicago music 10-years-in-the-making at Chicago’s beloved ESS; presented unpublished multi-prepared-piano works on Swedish radio; performed at prisoner advocacy coalition events; and published an essay exploring racial politics surrounding the work of early minimalist Terry Jennings (1940–1981). After invitations by Journal of Sonic Studies (NL), Sound American (US), and others, he has begun research on Iancu Dumitrescu and Axel Dörner. Further working to dissolve the rifts between the sensual, the aesthetic and the politico-rational, Hutchins is currently preparing a lengthy manuscript (in private circulation 2019–present), “Please Note Our Failure” that embraces the fields of art history, aesthetic politics, music criticism, film and social philosophy.
Hutchins has completed graduate work at Tufts’s Museum Studies program and University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. In addition to these activities, Hutchins is fervently active in local politics and through his associations, and regularly volunteers with the Appalachian Trail Club and other such beneficent organizations.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, MONOGRAPHS, PAPERS, INTERVIEWS
2024 “The Internationalism of ‘90s Chicago’s Underground Music Scene”
2023 “Perpetual Crossings: Terry Jennings, A Lost Link”
2021 “‘…one would sink in a sea of Rauschen’”: IN MEMORIAM. Peter Rehberg & the New Internationale”
2021 “New York – But in Chicago: On John Cage, Morton Feldman & Merce Cunningham’s Postmodern Afterlives”
2020 “Intergenerational Rapport Across Art: Cage, Cunningham & Co.”
2019 Please Note Our Failure: Two Generations of American Experimental Music
2019 “David Grubbs: ‘My instinct is that in some ways…’”: Interview, September 2019”
2019 “Constantly Connecting the Dots” (From Henry Kaiser to Eternity—): An Interview with Alan Licht on Unlikely Musical Correspondences”
2019 “Object & Objectivity in the Archive”
2018 The Passing Away of Nature: Two Essays on Natural History
2017 “A post-Sandy Literature? Writing Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity”
2017 “Looking Back On Adorno’s Late-Marxism (On the Centennial of the Russian Revolution)”
2017 “On the Non-identity of Experience and the Concept: A Critical Reading of Adorno’s Hegel: Three Studies”
2016 “On Wertkritik: Against the Fetish of ‘the Omnipotence of Critique’”
2016 “‘Corridor in the Hotel’: Explicating and Applying William James’s Pragmatist Critique of Temperament”
2016 “The Problem of Historical Consciousness in Théorie Communiste and Communisation”
2015 “The Pharmakon of Nature: Reading Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature in the Anthropocene”
2014 “Recuperated Spontaneity or Bad Infinity? A Character Study of Godard’s Jean-Pierre Léaud”
2014 “Lending Voices To Suffering: Adorno’s Interdisciplinary Cultural Criticism”
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