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The Spain/Chicago Artist Exchange is a collaboration between Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in Chicago, the Embassy of Spain, and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) to connect sound artists working in each respective location. Two exchange artists participate in a series of self-directed virtual studio visits over the course of a two month period, with the option of support for a collaborative project beyond the residency.
Read MoreToday's Dive is a special one as we memorialize the life of Harrison Bankhead, the Chicago musical legend who passed away earlier this year. Bankhead was a friend within the ESS community, and his work is archived across a number of collections in the Creative Audio Archive.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce Dorothy Carlos (MFA, 2023) as the 2023 Alba Sonic Arts Artist-in-Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
Read MoreESS, Monira Foundation, & Mana Contemporaryare pleased to announce a joint commission to Chicago artist Regina Martinez to create a site-specific sound installation responding to the peregrine falcons who call Mana Contemporary home.
Martinez’s installation centers the idea that what we know about the peregrine falcon is what we imagine the falcon to be. This multichannel sound installation will open to the public in September 2023, in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Read MoreFollowing three years as a virtual series and in various partner venues throughout the city, in 2023 OPTION returns home to ESS’s studio and garden in Chicago’s far north side.
Read MoreESS, in partnership with Monira Foundation and Mana Contemporary Chicago, is pleased to present an OPEN CALL to artists working with sound in Chicago for site-specific proposals of work to be presented at Mana in fall 2023.
Read MoreThis October ESS partnered with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain for a residency exchange with Spanish artists Clara de Asìs and Chicago artist Veronica Anne Salinas. For the culmination of their residency Clara and Veronica performed ‘tiny sounds’ which incorporated processed organic and electronic sounds and frequencies inspired by the wildness and infinitesimal sensualities floating within Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room.
Read MoreFormer ESS Alba Sonic artist in-residence Friedrich Andreoni’s catalogue “Chicago works and studies 2020-22” has been realised with the support of ESS and Stiftung Kunstfonds and it features the essay ‘Chicago Techniques’ by Dr. Michael J. Golec written between July and August 2022.
Read MoreAn Archive Dive featuring the works of Liof Munimula, an experimental music trio (Michael Zerang, Don Meckley, and Daniel Scanlan) who performed regularly from 1982 until 1997.
Read MoreBecome an ESS member this Winter with this awesome recording bundle deal! 4 hours of studio time with one of our professional engineers PLUS a free annual membership to ESS for only $200 (value of $290). Can be used for recording, mixing, or mastering. This is a great gift!
Read MoreThis October ESS partners with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain for a residency exchange with Spanish artist Clara de Asìs and Chicago artist Veronica Anne Salinas. Clara and Veronica are working together at the ESS studios over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for more updates on public presentations of this exciting collaboration!
Read MoreThis October ESS partners with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain for a residency exchange with Spanish artist Clara de Asìs and Chicago artist Veronica Anne Salinas. Clara and Veronica are working together at the ESS studios over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for more updates on public presentations of this exciting collaboration!
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