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Live Arts | Activating the Sun Ra Archive at MCA
Aug
5
4:00 PM16:00

Live Arts | Activating the Sun Ra Archive at MCA

In partnership with Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), which houses a large portion of Sun Ra’s archival material, this event activates the Sun Ra Archive by inviting sound selectors and visual artists to use a set of archival materials picked by the MCA’s Community Engagement Manager Otez Gary and ESS.

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Jennifer Walshe + Mocrep at Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
Apr
10
7:30 PM19:30

Jennifer Walshe + Mocrep at Chicago Athletic Association Hotel

  • Chicago Athletic Association Hotel (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Experimental Sound Studio, in collaboration with MOCREP,  is pleased to present a performance of works by Jennifer Walshe on April 10th at the Chicago Athletic Association hotel. This exciting interdisciplinary collaboration between Walshe and Mocrep, will include moments of karaoke, sounds of the outdoors and sometimes no sound at all. This performance has been facilitated by the Aisteach Institute, the Avant Garde Archive of Ireland, and will feature the Chicago premier of the film, AN GLÉACHT.
 

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Myth/Science Dubcology
Oct
11
8:00 PM20:00

Myth/Science Dubcology

Curated by Norman W. Long, Myth/Science Dubcology is a tribute to Sun Ra on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and to Washington Park, reflecting on the creative and cultural space the composer and the park creates. Myth/Science Dubcology follows Norman W. Long's practice of gardening, collecting and creating as a way to connect people to history, space, ecology and community. This practice fulfills a need to understand ecology, history and sense of place through sound, and ultimately aims to improve our communities. Long will be improvising and processing recordings (including materials from the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection in the Creative Audio Archive) with Avreeayl Ra (percussion), Dan Godston (trumpet, small instruments) and Angel Elmore (piano, clarinet).

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Archiving & Amplifying Chicago's Experimental Creativity
Mar
29
7:00 PM19:00

Archiving & Amplifying Chicago's Experimental Creativity

This discussion and performance will investigate the influence of Malachi Ritscher—the late Chicago-based documentarian, activist, artist, musician, photographer, and supporter of experimental and improvised music whose thousands of audio recordings fill the shelves of the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio.

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Archiving the Moment
Nov
15
7:00 PM19:00

Archiving the Moment

  • Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theatre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Archiving the Moment: Improvisation and the Malachi Ritscher Collection is a panel discussion and performance that will take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre at the Chicago Cultural Center from 7-9pm on Friday November 15th. Curated and moderated by ethnomusicologist Will Faber, the panel will feature philosopher Bruce Ellis Benson, composer/improviser/educator Douglas Ewart, and DJ Kimberly Seibel (Killing the Vibe). Performers will include pianist/ARPist James Baker, multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart, and bassonist/composer Katherine Young.

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Vinosonic 4
Sep
8
3:00 PM15:00

Vinosonic 4

We are excited to bring back Vinosonic, the fourth annual annual afternoon of wine tasting and improvisation in the garden to benefit ESS. In a format that has become increasingly popular from year to year, a selection of wines—presented and supplied by our neighbors at In Fine Spirits—will inspire duo, trio, and quartet improvisations by local luminaries Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Jason Roebke (bass), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), and Michael Zerang (percussion). ESS' own Dan Mohr (a former professional in the wine world) will emcee the afternoon's proceedings. Music from the various collections in the Creative Audio Archive will play between sets, and the CAA will also have listening stations available at the event.

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AUDIBLE GALLERY: Terri Kapsalis, Damon Locks, Wayne Montana, Rob Shaw: 'Noon Moons'
Feb
4
6:00 PM18:00

AUDIBLE GALLERY: Terri Kapsalis, Damon Locks, Wayne Montana, Rob Shaw: 'Noon Moons'

As part of our Sun Ra/El Saturn Commissions series, ESS asked Damon Locks (The Eternals) to create a new artwork responding to ESS’s extensive archive of Sun Ra recordings. In lieu of a solo work, he teamed up with writer/performer Terri Kapsalis, The Eternals’ Wayne Montana, and animator Rob Shaw to collaborate on an 18-minute video. Throughout the process, Locks has been working on a new series of related prints that will be on display in ESS’ Audible Gallery through April 4. At the opening of the exhibition of these prints on Saturday February 4th, the video—Noon Moons—will screen at 7:30 and 8:30pm.

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Mike Reed: Myth/Science Assembly
Sep
4
5:00 PM17:00

Mike Reed: Myth/Science Assembly

  • Petrillo Band Shell, Grant Park (map)
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Rather than using the Sun Ra/El Saturn Commission to comment on the life and work of Sun Ra, drummer Mike Reed decided to focus on one particular tape in the Archive (labeled "NY 1961"), more interested in using someone's discarded musical ideas as source material for entirely new music—regardless of whose ideas they happen to be.

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OUTER EAR: Todd Carter: 'Digital Black or Sun Ra pt II'
May
14
8:00 PM20:00

OUTER EAR: Todd Carter: 'Digital Black or Sun Ra pt II'

A live multi-channel composition based on sounds taken from the Sun Ra / El Saturn Collection of the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio.

Outer Ear is a program of the Experimental Sound Studio and is made possible by the generous funding of the Gaylord and Dorthy Donnelly Foundation.

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