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 Musicality of Poetry is exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist and arts activist Marvin Tate. The exhibition will feature recent visual work by Marvin.
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.
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.
Join us for a sound performance by Brett Naucke, and a screening of the short experimental films As Without So Within (2016) by Manuela De Laborde, and Deborah Stratman’s Xenoi (2016).
Join us for an improvised sound performance at Experimental Sound Studio with trio Norman W. Long, Andrew Clinkman and Lia Kohl.
A silent walk focusing on listening to the diverse soundscape of the west Edgewater neighborhood. Led by artist trio N.W. Long, Gwyneth Zelany Anderson and Sara Zalek. Join us at Experimental Sound Studio at 3 PM to embark; the event will finish back at ESS around 5 PM.
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.
ESS presents an installation and performances by Lee Blalock, in its Audible Gallery from January 25-April 28, 2019. Inspired by both experimental band formats and futurism, I Sing the Body Cybernetic presents mannequins outfitted with wearable electronics that serve as instruments as well as augmentations.
ESS presents an installation and performances by Lee Blalock, in its Audible Gallery from January 25-April 28, 2019. Inspired by both experimental band formats and futurism, I Sing the Body Cybernetic presents mannequins outfitted with wearable electronics that serve as instruments as well as augmentations.
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.
