Day 1 of 3 insane days of the Catalytic Sound Festival 2020 begins with 2 programs featuring artists through out the Catalytic catalogue. Not to be missed!
Solo sets by percussionist Fred Lonberg-Holm, saxophonist and clarinetist Keefe Jackson, and drummer Julian Kirshner. A trio set follows.
FRED LONBERG-HOLM, MICHAEL ZERANG, AND JOE MCPHEE play a re-imagining of their recording BARROW STREET BLUES (Live): Remembering Ornette Coleman in the time of Trump
Berlin-based guitarist Nicola Hein makes his Option debut with a set of solo music + a trio set with Chicago veterans FRED LONBERG-HOLM on cello and PHILLIP SUDDERBERG on drums. (Photo by Karl F. Deigenhart)
A new collaboration between Jon Mueller (Volcano Choir) and Jaime Fennelly (Mind over Mirrors) premieres in the garden, with support from post-punkers Toupée and Matthew Schneider's Moon Bros. project, at SUMMERSONIC 2015.
Cardioid // is a meditation on the life and archived work of Malachi Ritscher by Jennifer Gutowski and Fred Lonberg-Holm. The installation consists of an array of ceramic simulacra of Ritschers's favorite microphone suspended in and defining the space by outlining the polar pattern of that microphone, and an audio component drawn randomly from files taken from the Malachi Ritscher Collection in the Creative Audio Archive, and organized according to numeric data significant to Ritscher's life.
ESS presents an evening of performances by Ken Vandermark & Fred Lonberg-Holm and Katherine Young, at Heaven Gallery on Saturday, September 21st. All proceeds will support the Malachi Ritscher Legacy Commissions, a new initiative of the Creative Audio Archive.
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.
Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and dancer Mikey Rioux collide in an improvised performance.
