ESS presents Nina Dante, Jim Baker, Lia Kohl + Katinka Kleijn, Bill MacKay, Julia Holter + Olivia Block, and Spectralina, performing on the Quarantine Concerts.
Radius premieres Episode 91 & 92 on the Quarantine Concerts for the opening reception of Radius: DECADE, on exhibition via the Audible gallery at ESS May 14 through June 14, 2020.
Cellist Katinka Kleijn and guitarist Bill MacKay have each built impressive resumes in their respective musical trajectories over the years, including their longstanding collaboration together. A truly dynamic duo not to be missed!
Hermann Hesse’s groundbreaking novel Steppenwolf treats the figure of Harry Haller, a man torn between the confining parameters of civilized life and his submerged instinctual self, as a symbol of the struggle between one's own often opposed aspects: those of both the exterior and culturally-predetermined human, and the obscured yet never-sleeping wolf. For their performance, Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn will draw on musical motifs from various experimental traditions to illustrate these polarities, their inevitable conflict, and the redeeming power of their eventual convergence. (Photo by Paul Crisanti)
OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.
