The _____ Experiment (pronounced The “Blank” Experiment) is a flexible instrumentation new music ensemble; this concert showcases works for oboe (Ava Wirth) and saxophones (Andrew Hosler).
New Music Chicago Presents: Sarah Plum New Music for Solo Violin and Viola
Featuring works by Tonia Ko, Jeffrey Mumford, Osnat Netzer, Sidney Corbett, and Kyong Mee Choi
As part of its ongoing Florasonic series, ESS presents The Southwest Northeast Back and Forth Bows, a new work by Laura Ortman, spatialized by Kari Watson.
Join ESS in the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room for the opening of The Southwest Northeast Back and Forth Bows, a new work by Laura Ortman
In a one-time performance, Chicago-based composer and sound artist Lia Kohl presents the world premiere of her latest composition "Music for Union Station," a chamber work responding to the Great Hall of Chicago's central train station.
This exhibition presents the Mexican artist Leslie García’s intervention in El Saturn Collection—an archive of around 600 tapes and cassettes by the jazz musician Sun Ra—through synthesizers, electronic processing and artificial intelligence.
“Scratching” is an immersive multichannel soundscape created and performed by cellist and noise/performance artist Katinka Kleijn at the Chicago Athletic Association in their Tank, a former swimming pool at the club.
Curated by flutist Sasha Ishov, Echoes and Influences is an evening of solos and duos featuring music by Joji Yuasa, alongside works by Isang Yun and Jo Kondō — figures in the postwar Japanese and Korean avant-garde whose works reflect distinct yet interwoven aesthetic trajectories.
Join us on Saturday, March 29, 2025 as the Creative Audio Archive collaborates with Asian Improv Arts Midwest to present a free, public Listening Party and Screening of rarely seen archival footage documenting a live performance by the Fred Anderson Trio in Osaka in 1999. The screening will be followed by a live discussion with Aoki.
This Saturday, March 1st at Parachute HiFi join ESS for a Creative Audio Archive DJ set by CAA Archives Manager James Wetzel. Swing by from 7-11 PM for great food, drinks, and sounds!
November 30th, 2024 7PM at The Fourtunehouse Art Center. A mute alien, who looks like an African American man, faces struggle when he is chased by two of his fellow aliens in order to bring him back to his planet.
Limited Seating Available
November 23rd, 2024 7PM at The Fourtunehouse Art Center. An interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
SUN RA is an audiovisual exhibition exploring the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection archived by Experimental Sound Studio.
Paul Hertz presents new visual, audio, and intermedia works created with his new free, libre open source software library for Processing, PixelAudio.
Paul Hertz presents new visual, audio, and intermedia works created with his new free, libre open source software library for Processing, PixelAudio.
This ensemble performance in Bond Chapel assembles a group of musicians who appeared on the original recordings, playing through the new works live as compositions for the first time and taking them as launchpads for further improvisation.
In this presentation, Hara Alonso will share some of the work she has been doing during her residency at ESS, extending the piano through preparations and modular synthesizers.
Explore the synthesis of code, sound and moving images in this multimedia presentation and demo with Lisa Glenn Armstrong.
Join us for a garage sale of epic proportions featuring synthesizers, DIY and boutique noisemakers, records, vintage A/V equipment, refreshments, performances and camaraderie galore.
Visda Goudarzi will teach creative coding with audio. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to follow along.
Art as Civic Ritual is a Long-Table discussion, a participatory, non-hierarchical conversation for, with, and among the public about art making as a ritual for civic work, and a process for radical democracy. Featured guests — artists, activists, and civic leaders Tonika Lewis Johnson, Faheem Majeed, Bindu Poroor, and Gibran Villalobos join the conversation to thicken and galvanize our dialogue.
Xadie James will explore their set up using triggers or contact microphones attached to drums. They will go through a step-by-step process of how to set up triggers using a Digital Audio Workstation, using anything you can attach to a microphone to make an instrument or play back found sounds.
Join us on October 5 for a collective action disseminating 600 lawn signs throughout Chicago as part of the multi-city counter campaign Exorcism = Liberation.
A panel discussion on multichannel sound work with Gabi Kinlock, Kim Nucci, Regina Martinez, and Beth Bradfish, moderated by ESS engineer Kate In.
Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance
This video documents a singular performance, which featured original images by Mazurek projected onto the Adler Planetarium’s domed ceiling and the Exploding Star Orchestra’s hypnotic interpretations of music from their album Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem, released 2024).
Join us in the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room for a special Florasonic opening performance by Macie Stewart and Lia Kohl. The installation will play following the live performance.
Following a summer spent in Chicago, “The World Doubles in Size” is a piece compiled of field recordings taken all around the city- documenting a summer spent at home. The sounds of the Chicago river, summer storms, conversations, cicadas, violin, and voice, are all featured throughout the piece in varying levels of processing.
Quince Ensemble’s second annual contemporary and experimental voice workshop will take place September 19-22, 2024.
Join us on Friday, September 13th at ESS for a night of synthesizer music.
