“Chicago Composers: the Next Generation” celebrates the work of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project. In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet.

Richard Brasseale (saxophone) and Jonathan Hannau (piano) explore reflective musical works for saxophone and piano, including premieres by Brasseale and Hannau.

Composers Xavier Beteta (Guatemala), Josh Rodriguez (Colombia), and Richard Scofano (Argentina), will offer three world premieres – a rich sonic feast presenting eclectic aesthetics that draw inspiration from classical, contemporary, and Latin American dance and folk music. A celebration of music by Chicago-based composers from Central and South America, this concert of new piano trio music performed by Stephen Uhl, Brian Ostrega, and Brian Gaona will also feature the bandoneon. 

Composer & vocalist Elizabeth Rudolph presents original songs and chamber music, featuring soprano Angela Born, pianist Florence Mak, and Theresa Lams on clarinet and saxophone.

Marissa Kerbel, pianist, will perform a program comprised entirely of new works by friends and colleagues with an emphasis on works by NMC composers.

A piano program of musical reckonings with climate change, including works by Alexandra Du Bois, Brian Field, and Miller.

A double bill of new vocal music!

Join us on 4/12/2024 at 7:00 pm for an evening of experimental community and multimedia theater at the International Museum of Surgical Science.

Join us for a special collaboration between Duo RIso and Garden Unit Duo as a quartet!

The Bridgeport-based string duo presents an evening-length work for detuning instruments by Shi-An Costello.

Experimental concert series Brackish Brooklyn in collaboration with Heavy Florals presents brand spanking new video works alongside footage from the past season of live shows make up the Video Extravaganza!!

ESS will be streaming this event.

Featuring works by women composers, including a world premiere by Kristen Kunkle, in collaboration with Dr. Abbie Brewer, piano.

In partnership with New Music Chicago Presents, CCE presents the program "The Midwestern Connection" which features mixed chamber music by living composers based in Chicago and the Midwest.

Pianist and Chicago Composers Consortium member Larry Axelrod performs works by Lisbon-based composers, as well as his own composition.

Matthew Bryar’s Attorneys General project brings together artists into an ensemble where they make sounds which are then filtered through Bryar’s rig. He live mixes, loops, distorts, and mangles into a sometimes beautiful, sometimes cacophonous sound.

Featuring: Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, George Lewis, Chaka Chawasarira, Beauler Dyoko, Tonga people of the Zambezi Valley, hip hop house party in NYC

Featuring: Max Roach, Butch Morris, Sang-Won Park, Max Eastley, Derek Bailey, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, Buddy Emmons, Sam Bush, Mark O’Connor, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Myer, Eugene Chadbourne

Featuring: Sufi qawwali music at Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi, Ram Narayan, Sinfonye (Stevie Wishart, Jim Denley, Mark Loopuyt, Vivien Ellis), Mario Maya, Birju Maharaj, the Ghawazi, Eddie Palmieri.

Featuring: Douglas R. Ewart, Robert Levin, John Zorn, Naji Hakim, Gaelic psalm singing in the Isles of Harris and Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides, Mrs. Chrissy Smith, Rajan and Sajan Misra

In celebration of two current exhibitions, Corbett vs Dempsey is pleased to present a special live-streaming event titled Sequesterfest Vol. 8: Emilio Cruz & Dick Higgins.

Artist Kim Alpert (ESS) joins art historians Delinda Collier (SAIC) and Bukky Gbadegesin (SLU) to discuss the technologies and thought forms that have laid the foundation for emerging crypto-cultures

Archive Dive Broadcast: featuring recordings from the Studio Henry Collection and an exclusive interview with Wayne Horvitz.

Fostering intercontinental cooperation in spite of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin joins forces with Roulette to present a two-day concert marathon between the cutting edge scenes of Berlin and New York, with live acts on both sides of the Atlantic. This presentation is an exclusive rebroadcast of the program on The Quarantine Concerts stage.

Fostering intercontinental cooperation in spite of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin joins forces with Roulette to present a two-day concert marathon between the cutting edge scenes of Berlin and New York, with live acts on both sides of the Atlantic. This presentation is an exclusive rebroadcast of the program on The Quarantine Concerts stage.

ADA Radio is a new occasional and improvisational radio collective consisting of Brett Balogh, Jonny Farrow, Jeff Kolar, Milad Mozari, Jessica Speer, and Peter Speer. If you are on the north side of Chicago, tune in to hear these jolly noisemakers in their sonic frolic! Collectively concerned with voltages, frequencies, and modulations, each member brings a different sensibility to the group employing all manner of sonic manipulations, from analog synthesizers, to digital instruments, to live audio streams from far away spaces, hand-built oscillators, and other frequencies from across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is free-form radio taken to its extreme! Don't miss this noisy inaugural broadcast!

The Frosty and Frothy NRRF Pirates have found themselves and their trusty schooner locked on a course DUE SOUTH owing to a badly malfunctioning compass. As they approach what appears to be the frozen, southern polar landmass, they suddenly discover that their ship is no longer moving.

Year 17 has arrived, the genus Magicicada are crawling out of the ground, and playing the largest noise show of all time. But there may be more than one genus of insect emerging from its pupa.... Join the swarm as insects invade the radio. 

Radio has often been implicated in spiritualist encounters. We put the waves to the test and for otherworldly communicants, with all the safety precautions of exorcism at the ready. One brave (or foolhardy?) pirate voyages into the interior space of the radio itself, but will he survive?