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July 2018
Tuesday July 17 | 8:30 pm
$10

Ben Aguilar & Rob Collier Duo, Langdon/Mahoney Duo

Rob Collier, a composer/performer from Milwaukee (by way of Louisville, Ky), joins Ben Aguilar in performing a new composition, Music in Transparent Layers. The duo will record each performance on the tour and play the recordings at each subsequent show as they add a new layer live. Thus, each performance is a unique stage in the development of the piece.
Thursday July 19 | 9:00 pm
$10

Benjamin Vergara and Friends

A very special guest from Chile joins us on trumpet, meeting up with several of his Chicago counterparts and Elastic Arts regulars.
Friday July 20 | 4:30 pm

Stone Believers & DJ Ayana [Culture Coach Traveling Stage]

Join us for an evening of music in Oriole Park as DJ Ayana will spin from 4:30-5:45 and 7:15-7:45 & the band Stone Believers performs from 6:00-7:15!
Monday July 23 | 9:00 pm
$10

Sarah Clausen Quintet & Mai Sugimoto Quintet

This week's performance features led quintets led by alto saxophonists (and fellow graduates of NIU's jazz program) Sarah Clausen and Mai Sugimoto.
Tuesday July 24 | 9:00 pm

Matt Endahl’s Doomsday Philharmonic, Chris Riggs

an evening of improvisation and sonic exploration
Wednesday July 25 | 9:00 pm
$10

Flysch (Portland), Streiber, No Dreams & Nude Attitude

$10 cover $7 for students w/ ID
Thursday July 26 | 9:00 pm
$10

Christopher Dammann’s Restroy

Led by composer and bassist Christopher Dammann, Restroy is a sextet focused on using patterns and textures as forms for improvisation. Acoustic instruments are augmented and juxtaposed against electronic textures and noise. The result is a lyrical series of inflection points, layered sonic spaces and pulse driven music.
Friday July 27 | 8:00 pm
$15

Beyond Form: a partnership of spiritual vision and brutalist flesh

A series of intentional duality featuring Julien Bayle’s FRGMENTS with Kim Alpert’s Scan Lines.

This series is an experiment of live audio-visual immersive installation and performance presented in three ways.


Every performance will be unique and after each showing, audience members will be encouraged to anonymously share their reaction.
Saturday July 28 | 8:30 pm
$15

Beyond Form: a partnership of spiritual vision and brutalist flesh

A series of intentional duality featuring Julien Bayle’s FRGMENTS with Kim Alpert’s Scan Lines.

This series is an experiment of live audio-visual immersive installation and performance presented in three ways.


Every performance will be unique and after each showing, audience members will be encouraged to anonymously share their reaction.
Sunday July 29 | 3:00 pm
Pay what you can

OFF-SITE (Silent Funny) – Beyond Form: a partnership of spiritual vision and brutalist flesh

A series of intentional duality featuring Julien Bayle’s FRGMENTS with Kim Alpert’s Scan Lines.

This series is an experiment of live audio-visual immersive installation and performance presented in three ways.


Every performance will be unique and after each showing, audience members will be encouraged to anonymously share their reaction.
Sunday July 29 | 7:00 pm
$10

SCRIPTS – Record Release Show: Akosuen + Cinchel | Holy Family

SCRIPTS Records is proud to support 2 new releases: a collaboration of plush, aerial, opaque musical gestures of violin, voice, guitar and digital synthesis from Akosuen and Cinchel as well as the debut release of the immersive diatonic harmonies of modular synth artist Holy Family. Fiction Wisdom will open the evening with a series of new works for modular synth and computer manipulation followed by the heavy shoegaze songs of ONLY accompanied by a larger backup band of bass and strings.
Monday July 30 | 9:00 pm
$10

Rob Clearfield Solo & Mazzarella/Abrams/Kirchner/McCraven

Rob Clearfield, whose tremendous first solo album was released earlier this year, perfoms a solo set of his original music. Then, a quartet featuring some of Chicago's most active improvisers reconvenes after a three year hiatus for its second gig.
Tuesday July 31 | 8:00 pm
$10

TOMBIGBEE

featuring travis of ONO
August 2018
Thursday August 2 | 9:00 pm
$10

James Falzone Solo & Black Diamond

Chicago ex-pat, and longtime Elastic regular James Falzone makes a rare return visit from his new hometown of Seattle to perform a solo set, while the Chicago-based collaborative quartet Black Diamond makes its Improvised Music Series debut.
Monday August 6 | 9:00 pm
$10

The Oh Yeahs & Greg Ward Quartet

The spectacular Oh Yeahs perform a set of originals and arrangements in their inimitable style, and superb alto saxophonist Greg Ward leads a topflight quartet.
Wednesday August 8 | 8:00 pm
$10

J e l l o: And We’re Back!

The J e l l o Performance series provides a platform for performance artists to experiment, create, risk and try! As a jello artist, you have access to a performance space, production/lighting resources and a very supportive audience. PLUS, artists are provided FREE video documentation and photographs of your work!
Thursday August 9 | 9:00 pm
$10

Beben Von Kobra & Alpert/Kohl/Mendoza

Beben Von Kobra brings together four of the leading figures of the Chicago and New Orleans music communities in an improvising quartet that is as singular in approach and diverse in style as its members. This performance will be their Chicago debut and the conclusion of their first tour. An outgrowth of the Instigation Orchestra, they will be joined in the second set by fellow Orchestra members Kim Alpert and Lia Kohl along with Jasmine Mendoza.
Sunday August 12 | 9:00 pm
$10

Dave Miller (solo) & Jonah Parzen-Johnson (solo)

Dave Miller (solo guitar) & Jonah Parzen-Johnson (solo saxophone/electronics)
Monday August 13 | 9:00 pm
$10

Twin Talk & Kinsmen and Strangers

Twin Talk—one of Chicago's most active working groups—presents a set of its latest original music. Brooklyn-based avant-jazz trio Kinsmen and Strangers visits Elastic as part of a release tour for its new album Faustian Pact.
Thursday August 16 | 9:00 pm
$10

Joshua Abrams Solo (Record Release Party)

Journeyman Chicago bassist Joshua Abrams celebrates the release of his solo debut Excavations on Feeding Tube Record!!
Monday August 20 | 9:00 pm
$10

Rempis/Williams & Rempis/Williams/Lux/Damon

Longtime collaborators Dave Rempis and Mars Williams present their multi-saxophone duo project, then augment it with bassist Matt Lux and drummer Tyler Damon.
Thursday August 23 | 9:00 pm
$10

Paul Giallorenzo’s Gitgo Septet

Elastic founder, composer, and pianist presents the extended version of his regular working quintet, joining together four horn players who have all served in the smaller version.
Monday August 27 | 9:00 pm
$10

Dane Rousay, Laurenzi/Cunningham, & Big Fun

This special triple bill features a solo set by San Antonio drummer Dane Rousay, the electroacoustic saxophone/drums duo project of Dustin Laurenzi and Jeremy Cunningham, and an improvising sextet led by guitarist Zac Nunnery.
Thursday August 30 | 9:00 pm
$10

Håvard Wiik’s Chicago Project

Norwegian pianist Håvard Wiik, a key member of and composer for countless bands including Atomic, and his own trio, gathers together a configuration of Chicago collaborators to debut some large ensemble material.
September 2018
Monday September 3 | 9:00 pm
$10

Clucas/Mazzarella/Sanders & Bufe/Hatwich/Harris

In the first of two improvised sets this week LA-based cornetist Dan Clucas is joined by Chicagoans Nick Mazzarella and James Sanders, and in the second, tenor saxophonist Jarod Bufe explores instant composition with Anton Hatwich and Bill Harris.
Thursday September 6 | 9:00 pm

Beisel/Dorocke/Thatcher & Tim Stine Quartet

Tonight's double bill of Chicago improvisers features two working formations that take very different approaches to improvisation.
Monday September 10 | 9:00 pm
$10

Jackson/Hatwich & Roughhousing

Longtime collaborators Keefe Jackson and Anton Hatwich team up for a duo set, and the legendary Jack Wright performs with his trio Roughhousing.
Thursday September 13 | 9:00 pm
$10

Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker

This working quartet, for whom Elastic Arts has become home base, makes a Chicago appearance in preparation for two festival performances in Ann Arbor and Wels, Austria this fall.
Friday September 14 | 7:00 pm

High Zero Festival — Chicago Night One

The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music has announced today that its 20th edition will include an expanded set of concerts and locations, bringing the festival and musicians from Baltimore to both Chicago and New York, and will close with a special all-local celebration in Baltimore this September. Beginning in 1999, the annual improvised music festival has brought together more than 200 musicians and performers from around the world, mixing and matching them in all new combinations with local Baltimore improvisers each year in never-before-seen collaborations. Signal to Noise magazine has called the festival “a fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal”; the Washington Post has described it as “some of the most intense new music being made anywhere, on everything from oboes and one-of-a-kind instruments to the human body itself... unforgettable performances."
Saturday September 15 | 7:00 pm

High Zero Festival — Chicago Night Two

The High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music has announced today that its 20th edition will include an expanded set of concerts and locations, bringing the festival and musicians from Baltimore to both Chicago and New York, and will close with a special all-local celebration in Baltimore this September. Beginning in 1999, the annual improvised music festival has brought together more than 200 musicians and performers from around the world, mixing and matching them in all new combinations with local Baltimore improvisers each year in never-before-seen collaborations. Signal to Noise magazine has called the festival “a fertile laboratory of musical possibility without equal”; the Washington Post has described it as “some of the most intense new music being made anywhere, on everything from oboes and one-of-a-kind instruments to the human body itself... unforgettable performances."
Monday September 17 | 9:00 pm
$10

Stein/Cruz/Hunton & Jake Wark Quartet

Drummer Emerson Hunton brings together a trio for a set of improvisation, and tenor saxophonist Jake Wark leads a quartet in a performance his original compositions.
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