


WORKSHOP: Synthesizer Building Workshop at Dark Matter Block Party with Alex Inglizian + ESS
Join Technical Director, Alex Inglizian and the ESS team for an afternoon of building light controlled synthesizer circuits - no experience necessary! We'll be building and selling starter kits from 12-5pm hosted at the Dark Matter Block Party.

ESS at You Are Here Festival
ESS has assembled an all-star crew of improvisers to play in the Maze of the You Are Here Festival. Players include: Tim Kinsella, Matt Lux, Alex Inglizian, Adam Vida, Ben LaMar Gay, Will Faber, LeRoy Bach, Ben Boye

Black Cinema House: Experimental Sound Series: Body & Soul
Every film needs a soundtrack of some sort, we are partnering with Black Cinema House to present a series featuring lives scores of rarely seen silent films. Various musicians curated by ESS will lend their musical talents throughout the series.

Dhalgren Day 6
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

Dhalgren Day 5
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

Dhalgren Day 4
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

Dhalgren Day 3
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

Dhalgren Day 2
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

Dhalgren Day 1
Ambient keyboard rock quartet Dhalgren records their next album in front of a live studio audience.

OUTER EAR: Dhalgren (rescheduled)
ESS "house band" Dhalgren's appearance at last season's OE series was thwarted by an ill-timed power outage, so we've asked them to give it another go this season.

OUTER EAR: Dhalgren
Featuring three of ESS's own, ambient keyboard quartet Dhalgren will perform improvisations and material from their forthcoming debut studio album.

FLORASONIC: Alex Inglizian: 'Pteridophyta Songs'
Using the process of photosynthesis as a procedural analog for sound synthesis, Alex Inglizian has manipulated raw electrical energy into audio waveforms. For PTERIDOPHYTA SONGS, he has sculpted this material into a series of discrete sound pieces, each corresponding to a different species of fern.