Singer Guitarist Haley Fohr Hunts For A Path Forward With A Colorful Hideout Residency

Since fall 2017, Haley Fohr has been on the road playing songs from Reaching for Indigo (Drag City), the sixth full-length by her primary musical project, Circuit des Yeux. The singer-guitarist is finishing the tour and the year with a three-night weekly residency at the Hideout entitled Intentions of Sociable Creativity Through Light & Sound, which will retire the album’s material, celebrate Fohr’s relationship to Chicago’s experimental- and improvised-music communities, and point toward the music she’ll make in 2019.

 Calling from Prague on a travel day during her recent European tour with Circuit des Yeux, Fohr spoke about the residency and what’s next on her agenda.

You’re performed under several guises. What’s the difference between Haley Fohr and Circuit des Yeux? Circuit des Yeux is for my mental health—it’s really more emotional. It’s more whatever I’m feeling at that moment. And I think with Haley Fohr, I’m more of a composer.

Wed 12/19: Indigo Circuit des Yeux Presents Reaching for Indigo: Gaia Infinitus, plus DJ Cheryl Bittner