A genre-defying adventure into the orchestra as sound-art. How can orchestral sound become the material for artistic exploration? Find out how sound artists reinvent what the orchestral medium can mean.
TQC presents the premiere of The Physicality of Thinking, a 30 minute “road movie” by Sandra Binion, edited by Julian Aaron Flavin. This online premiere also includes live performances by members of the improvising quartet Antichamber Music streaming from France and the U.S.
Lou Mallozzi presents Vox Effusis Vol. 3, a concert for voice featuring AJ McClenon, Paul Dutton and Carol Genetti.
Lou Mallozzi presents Vox Effusis, a two-part program of voice-based online performances for the ESS Quarantine Concert Series. A stellar lineup of artists who explore the voice in all its tenderness and terror.
April 11, 2020 at 7pm CT
pt.fwd presents:
7:00pm - Lou Mallozzi
7:30pm - Angel Bat Dawid & Isaiah Collier
8:00pm - Greg Sullo
8:30pm - Alexa Letourneau
9:00pm - no mt hearts + j a r s
9:30pm - Directives (D. Petri)
December 2, 2018 - ESS & CAA founder Lou Mallozzi presents a playlist of sound art and performance pieces that are “not music” - selected from the Creative Audio Archive’s ESS Collection.
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.
The fifth and most conceptually broad iteration of Ten x Ten, ‘Ten x Ten 2017: Dual Practices’ brings together 10 notable Chicago artists who have robust practices in both visual art and music. By considering questions about boundaries and location, Ten x Ten 2017 will investigate Chicago neighborhood identities, urban change, and comfort in space and place.
Five artist pairs have been collaborating over several months to each create a two-part work that includes a song or audio piece and an 18” x 18” screen print. The results of these partnerships will be released with a concert and gallery exhibition at Experimental Sound Studio on Saturday, September 9th.The artists will perform excerpts from their collaborations and display their prints as well as other work.
Lou Mallozzi presents a rare solo set of improvisations with turntables, CDs, mixer, microphones, and text. The set will be intertwined with questions, arguments and discussion posed by theorist and artist Seth Kim-Cohen. The result may be an improvised performance that contains its own interrogation, or an interrogation that improvises its own performance.
This is the second of three concerts in conjunction with Rob Mazurek's exhibition The Shaping Light in Audible Gallery. The evening features ROB MAZUREK on piccolo trumpet and electronics with LOU MALLOZZI on turntables, CDs, and mixer, and special guest JACQUES DEMIERRE on piano.
ROB MAZUREK performs solo, and discusses his work with PETER MARGASAK as part of the weekly OPTION series.
In 2006, Joan and Mildred met at a party and through friendship and an evolving series of conversations and activities––movement-based performance, video and audio field recordings, historical research, photography and writing––generated something like a collaboration that looks something like a palindrome with Mildred's train as the central mode of conveyance for wide-ranging ideas about narrative, place, nomenclature, travel, race and class, and freight. Coming in from the North––a performance in two parts and one installation––presents a portion of that collaboration.
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of Experimental Sound Studio. To celebrate 30 years of incubating, presenting and documenting innovative work in sound from around the world, ESS is throwing a blow-out gala at Constellation Chicago. The evening will feature luminaries from throughout ESS’s diverse history, including MacArthur Fellow and OPTION programmer Ken Vandermark; Chicago composer and sound artist Olivia Block; Instrument inventor and improviser Hal Rammel; and internationally acclaimed Dutch vocalist, sound poet, and composer Jaap Blonk.
Coincident with Mother's Day, Wavefront artist Mark Chung will present a reworking of some video sculptures he made about his mother. He will screen the works as one piece, and perform a new scripted narration to accompany the visuals. Lou Mallozzi will then discuss Mark's Chicago experiences and how they have informed his work.
Fourth Horizon is a meditation on living in a city with water as a constant eastern horizon. Inspired by a theater stage constructed over water and an early commercial radio broadcast of a telepathy experiment, the exhibition explores the relation between the built and natural environments—and the spaces for imagination, connection, and alienation in daily urban life. Fourth Horizon incorporates sculpture, video, text, and sound into a process-based installation that meets Chicago at the shore of Lake Michigan.
What you'll hear in the Fern Room is The Glass House by Chicago composer and percussionist Tim Daisy. The composition reflects various aspects of the structure of the building itself. It is recorded in four sections that play simultaneously, each supporting the other, much like the metal ribs of the four corners of the Fern Room support the overall structure. These musical sections are of different lengths, so they continuously mix and remix in surprising and unpredictable ways. The instruments, including vibraphone, cymbals, radio and turntables, recall both the materials of the building and its location in an increasingly technologized environment. The Glass House explores the sounds hidden within the Conservatory’s architecture and acknowledges its function as an urban home for botanical diversity.
Please join us for an intimate feast prepared by ESS Executive Director Lou Mallozzi. (Beyond his achievements as an artist and educator, Lou has achieved some renown as a talented gastronome.) You'll get an insider look into the workings of Chicago's premiere resource for the creation, presentation and preservation of sound artworks in all media through conversation with artists and other figures in the ESS community—all while being treated to the sonic stylings of LeRoy Bach (Wilco) and Nick Butcher (My Silence, Sonnenzimmer). Your generous donation of $100/plate will support ESS’s ongoing programming and artist development iniatives as it enters its 30th year of operation in 2016.
The Sound Design Project is an arts integration program that explores a specific medium: sound. Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education collaborated with sound artist Lou Mallozzi, SAIC professor and Founder of Experimental Sound Studio, to implement this three-year investigation into the intersection of experimental sound arts and music pedagogy, and their impact on academic learning.
Chicago artist Deborah Boardman has used a fault line beneath Audible Gallery as the basis for arranging an installation that includes painting, sculptural objects and audio recordings whose focus is a selection of her dreams narrated by a number of those who gave help and solace during her recent bout with cancer.
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.
In The Gift of Broken Tracking Devices: Thinking with Our Hands, a collaborative exhibition of works on paper, artists Judith A. Kasen and Michiko Itatani employ many experimental techniques—monotype, origami, fingerpainting—in a raw, intuitive exploration of how a collaborator’s work can serve as a mirror to one’s own. Chicago-based experimental sound artist MT Coast has composed a companion audio component, and will perform a special live set at the opening reception on February 7th.
Artists and curators discuss their work in the field of sound installation and, in particular, how their musical practice translates into an architectural form in public space. These artists' musical practice is very often an experience that relates their own bodies to an instrument or system, which then reaches an audience in real time. How do they translate these immediate corporeal musical interests into sound installation, a mediated form that uses recorded sound rather than live sound, creating an architectural experience for an audience that is often ambient and ambulatory?
Renowned English saxophone player and sound artist John Butcher will duet with ESS Director Lou Mallozzi (turntables, CD players, feedback).
Using the process of photosynthesis as a procedural analog for sound synthesis, Alex Inglizian has manipulated raw electrical energy into audio waveforms. For PTERIDOPHYTA SONGS, he has sculpted this material into a series of discrete sound pieces, each corresponding to a different species of fern.
Cretaceous Chorus
by Ed Herrmann
February 13 - May 22, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 13, 3-5pm
9am-5pm Fern Room, Lincoln Park Conservatory 2391 N. Stockton Drive.
Curated by Lou Mallozzi for Experimental Sound Studio's Florasonic series, presented in partnership with the Chicago Park District.
Admission is FREE!
Light Bulb Music at Heaven Gallery
- Tuesday, April 5 at 8pm
Lecture on the history of the light bulb and performance at the Goethe-Institut
- Wednesday, April 6 at 7pm
Improvised performance with James Falzone and Lou Mallozzi at Elastic Arts
- Thursday, April 7 at 10pm
MICHAEL x. RYAN: WATERLINE: a 20 foot line traced from a steel wire drawing following the water's edge from Ox-Bow dock 20 feet north on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 10:30am
Japanese star Erika Oda (Kore-eda's Cannes smash After Life) stars as Tengan Rei, a young Okinawan woman who kidnaps Paris, the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl. Unlocking their shared histories, Rei and Paris are drawn together, even as the boy's father closes in on them. Set against the stunning tropical beauty of Okinawa and the rusted grit of industrial Chicago, The First Breath of Tengan Rei takes viewers on an unforgettable emotional journey.
A stunning sound portrait incorporating the clank of wheels over rail ties, the hiss of boilers, the roar of diesels, the call of train whistles, the whoosh of tomorrow’s super-fast trains–a rhythmic reminder that today’s downtown lakefront park was once a huge rail yard extending to the water’s edge.
Commissioned by and co-presented with the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival.
