tune in to elastic arts!

We’re thrilled to kick off July with the first of two shows featuring touring artists!  This one brings together musicians from across our fellow Midwest cities. Lex Leto (Iowa City) will perform a set of electronic slumber pop followed by Jane Marie Rogers (Detroit) whose work inhabits betweennesses: finding spaces between safety and pain, stillness and motion, gentleness and intensity.  

A triple-solo evening moving from the pianism of Matt Piet to D Wibowo’s immersive “Dangdut Stereo”, and concluding with the synthesis of Omaha-based drummer and computer musician Phill Smith.

It's 40-Channel Night at CLEAT!

We're trying something new. Acclaimed Chicago sound artist Shawn Decker has created a 24-channel system of hand-built speakers. Tonight, this system will join in a duet with the CLEAT 16-channel system, creating a 40-channel speaker orchestra that will surround the audience from above and below. Solo and duet sets will blend into each other continuously in this hour-long concert.

Join us for this incredibly unique night of spatial sound!

Indigo at The Garden will be our second Outreach event of 2025! Featuring live music by the amazing Aliyah Jones, and an Interactive art installation and work by Dark Matter Resident Avin Hannah Smith This event is FREE to all attending, highlighting the amazing space and work of artists within the Oakland neighborhood.

Bring a blanket, a chair and your family to enjoy some sounds and beautiful visuals!

Drummerless quartets feature on tonight’s Improvised Music Series, including a new group assembled by Christopher Dammann, and a rare appearance by Mad Myth Science, called “The next generation of Chicago Jazz” by the Quietus.

We’re continuing our July spotlight on touring artists with a show featuring guests from Mexico City! This event is a special collaboration with the Volta sound series—presenting the Chicago edition of Hertzwitches, an improvisation exploring sound through analog instruments and transmission-based dialogue - featuring Veronica Anne Salinas (CHI), Juanjosé Rivas (CDMX), and Amanda Gutiérrez (CDMX)

Following the performance, all attendees are invited to take part in a graphic score workshop led by Amanda Gutiérrez and Juanjosé Rivas.  Through expanded listening, spontaneous composition, and collective soundmaking, the workshop will explore inherited sonic memory and noise as creative rupture.

A seductive and passionate voice, evocative songwriting, and formal training make Dawn Xiana Moon one of the most distinctive Asian-American singers of her generation. The Singapore-born musician has performed in 10 states and released two solo albums; she fuses elements from traditional Chinese music with jazz and alt folk pop, resulting in a musical brew in French, English, and Mandarin Chinese that draws influences from sources as disparate as Han Dynasty literature and Americana.

Two immersive improvisation experiences tonight: LEAVE A MESSAGE invites audiences to share their words and listening ears in an ambient instrumental space; Dave Gordon’s Plasmosonic Trio highlights AACM percussionist Dushun Mosley, in collaboration with Gordon and Stefan Moore’s radical expansion of the group sound through Elastic’s multichannel CLEAT system.

Elastro is excited to welcome Cole Pulice with a trio for an October vist. The saxophonist/composer/improviser Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land’s End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records (releasing May 9th), the Oakland-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Cole’s previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork and included in the publication’s Best Songs Of The 2020s. Cole has also released a smattering of solo and collaborative work on beloved labels including Moon Glyph, Aural Canyon and Cached Media. Their performance history includes appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival (UK), Rewire (NL), ÜBERJAZZ (DE), Drone Not Drones (US), & Noise Pop Festival (US).