LuFuki: Meditations
Alter Ego Plus
LuFuki’s Meditations Ensemble (Detroit) was put together to encourage audience contemplation through sound using the powerful messages of improvisation. Featuring special guests Chad Khouri and Airon Azure.
Alter Ego is an experimental duo consisting of pianists Mabel Kwan and Sharon Udoh. Tonight, they'll be joined by drummer/percussionist Bill Harris and saxophonist/clarinetist Edward Wilkerson, Jr. to form Alter Ego Plus.
8:30 LuFuki: Meditations
9:30 Alter Ego Plus: Harris/Kwan/Udoh/Wilkerson, Jr.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
About the artists
Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Their performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeño pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, dangerous yet kind, and magnetic. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Ben Lamar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Chris Corsano, and on this particular night, Mabel Kwan, Bill Harris, and Ed Wilkerson, Jr.
Mabel Kwan is fascinated by sounds, contradictions, and our perception of what is familiar and strange. With a style that is detached and objective but highly personal and spirited, Mabel brings a quiet intensity to her live performances, creating a sense of play and tension between the sounds, performers, and listeners. She plays with STOMACHS (with Bill Harris), Honestly Same, Em Spel, Kwan/Pauly/Shaw trio, Ensemble Dal Niente, and the Jason Roebke Quartet and Christopher Dammann Sextet (both with Edward Wilkerson, Jr.) on keys, accordion, and synths.
Bill Harris is a prominent Chicago-based percussionist, improviser, audio engineer, and curator working in areas of improvisation, jazz, noise, rock, and bluegrass. In 2015, he started Amalgam, a 100% artist-run collective and label dedicated to showcasing works of improvised and experimental music in Chicago and elsewhere. Amalgam has been widely recognized, drawing from and representing the hugely diverse and collaborative music scene of Chicago, and celebrated 10 years with a festival in October 2025 at Elastic Arts and Hungry Brain. In 2020, he started and co-operates a recording studio called Marmalade, where he also curates performances for local and traveling artists. Some of his most frequent collaborators include Ishmael Ali, Carol Genetti, Emily Beisel, Dave Rempis, Jim Baker, Norman W. Long, Mai Sugimoto, Eli Namay, Nick Meryhew, Brianna Tong, Molly Jones, Keefe Jackson, and Ed Wilkerson, Jr.
Edward Wilkerson, Jr. is an internationally recognized composer, arranger, saxophonist, clarinetist, and educator based in Chicago, where he has been closely associated with the AACM, serving at one time as its president. He first came to prominence as a member of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, participating in a number of recordings by the group. As founder and director of the cutting-edge octet 8 Bold Souls, and the 25-member Shadow Vignettes ensemble, Wilkerson has toured festivals and concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East.