This event at ESS’s Audible Gallery shares the new works created by sonic artist Spencer Hutchinson and poet Alyssa Perry, excerpts from ESS’s Creative Audio Archives and FENCE’s digital archives, and informal artist presentations. 

The Musicality of Poetry is an exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist and arts activist Marvin Tate. The exhibition will feature recent visual work by Marvin. The closing reception will feature longtime collaborator LeRoy Bach.

“I’ll be playing with my longtime collaborator LeRoy Bach and that within itself is a beautiful thang to behold.”

- Marvin Tate

The Musicality of Poetry is exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist and arts activist Marvin Tate. The exhibition will feature recent visual work by Marvin.

The Musicality of Poetry is exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist and arts activist Marvin Tate.

A small train going a long way is a work of abstract sonic interventions in public spaces, documented through videos, sounds, maps, scores, and performance ephemera. It unfolds in collaboration with the unpredictable sounds of its environment, facilitating transient experiences of familiar places.

A small train going a long way is a work of abstract sonic interventions in public spaces, documented through videos, sounds, maps, scores, and performance ephemera. It unfolds in collaboration with the unpredictable sounds of its environment, facilitating transient experiences of familiar places.

Douglas R. Ewart returns for a final performance alongside the recently-closed exhibition Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective at ESS’s Audible Gallery. This time, Ewart is joined by the group Quasar: Mankwe Ndosi and Vincent Davis. Attend the presentation of Songs of Life’s Vineyards live at the Logan Center at University of Chicago, Sunday, December 12th at 4pm CDT.

Douglas R. Ewart comes together with Renèe Baker (Violin, Viola and Voice) and Lou Mallozzi (electronics) in a trio called Sonic Bamboo Rhizomes for a special performance entitled Water Wise Bamboo Free dedicated to Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Elders Lester Helmar Lashley, LaRoy Wallace McMillan, and Reginald "Reggie" Willis. This is the first in a series of performances presented as part of his current exhibition Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective at ESS’s Audible Gallery.

Recorded over three years, A Sound Map of the Danube traces the second longest European river's run from the Black Forest in Germany to its delta into the Black Sea. The recordings comprise sounds from the banks, from above and below the water, animals, insects, and interviews with people who live by the great river.

Recorded over three years, A Sound Map of the Danube traces the second longest European river's run from the Black Forest in Germany to its delta into the Black Sea. The recordings comprise sounds from the banks, from above and below the water, animals, insects, and interviews with people who live by the great river.

A musical performance and immersive art installation inspired by seismic data from an ailing iceberg.

As part of the Outer Ear Residency, Luftwerk presents an immersive sculptural exhibition at Audible Gallery, November 8th, 2019 - January 26th, 2020. Illuminated objects will fill the space with shadows and reflections creating a visual topography enhanced by amplified sounds mimicking the calving of glaciers, created by collaborator Katherine Young.

As part of the Outer Ear Residency, Luftwerk presents an immersive sculptural exhibition at Audible Gallery, November 8th, 2019 - January 26th, 2020. Illuminated objects will fill the space with shadows and reflections creating a visual topography enhanced by amplified sounds mimicking the calving of glaciers, created by collaborator Katherine Young.

ESS presents an exhibition in partnership with Roman Susan Art Foundation in the Audible Gallery from May 17 -August 18, 2019. Mie Kongo and Norman W. Long: Without Within is curated by Ruth Hodgins.

ESS presents an exhibition in partnership with Roman Susan Art Foundation in the Audible Gallery from May 17 -August 18, 2019. Mie Kongo and Norman W. Long: Without Within is curated by Ruth Hodgins.

Herbert Brün 100 at ESS, curated by Rare Nest gallery, presents the visionary computer-generated compositions by Herbert Brun. Gallery hours are Sundays, 1-5pm.

ESS is delighted to collaborate with Rare Nest gallery and the Brün Estate in presenting Herbert Brün's visionary computer-generated imagery to a wider community. 

2018 Wavefront artist-in-residence Dave Chow presents recent work in ESS’s Audible Gallery.

Exhibition opening for 2018 Wavefront artist-in-residence Dave Chow’s exhibition of recent work in ESS’s Audible Gallery.

mass notification is a sound installation by the artist Banrei that considers auditory methods of control and the language of the siren. The work experienced at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) consists of an array of hundreds of works dispersed through short auditory bursts of sound that swell and spatter, interspersed with moments of modulated silence, utilizing sheer volume as a visceral form of object presence.

The Ears Have Walls: A Survey of Sound Games is an interactive exhibition of sound games, presented in collaboration with the Video Game Art Gallery.