Filtering by: Douglas Ewart
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.
Douglas R. Ewart comes together with Renèe Baker (Violin, Viola and Voice) and Lou Mallozzi (electronics) in a trio called Sonic Bamboo Rhizomes for a special performance entitled Water Wise Bamboo Free dedicated to Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Elders Lester Helmar Lashley, LaRoy Wallace McMillan, and Reginald "Reggie" Willis. This is the first in a series of performances presented as part of his current exhibition Douglas R. Ewart: A Retrospective at ESS’s Audible Gallery.
Walter Kitundu presents Careen, a composition arranged from a series of improvised scores performed by Douglas R. Ewart, in response to time-lapse imagery of ferns emerging from the soil, scaled to the plant ‘s sense of time.
Chicago based sound artist Lou Mallozzi returns to the Option stage. Tonight's performance will showcase a set of duo music with the visionary composer, improviser and sculptor Douglas Ewart.
Named 'Best Concert Series in a Recording Studio' by the Chicago Reader in 2014, ESS's flagship live performance series returns in Spring 2015 for a series of five concerts showcasing an international roster of improvisers, artists, and composers all working at the vanguard of the sonic arts.
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.
Michele Feder-Nadoff's chayah drawings are large suspended pieces, viewed from both the front and rear. They engage the viewer like manuscript sheets or layers of tanned skin, unattached to walls and wafting in the air currents stirred up by passers by. The marks, derived from simple strokes used in Hebrew and Arabic writing, are repeated hundreds of times in each drawing, accumulating into subtly shifting textures and tonalities that recall landscapes, waterscapes, maps, weaving, and musical notation. They imply a language less of denotation and more of evocation, song-like and ephemeral, fragile but enduring.
