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Join us for the first of two Elastro series events this week, featuring Los Angeles musician Cate Kennan, Infrathin (Whitney Johnson + Lula Asplund), and Cleared (Michael Vallera + Steven Hess).
Chicago's most dynamic audio/visual series, Night School, presents an evening of experimental video and music for the first time here at Elastic Arts. Video artists are paired with improvising musicians, with each musician live-scoring the video for the first time. There are no aesthetic hierarchies at Night School, each show is about spontaneity and openness, you never know what you'll see and you won't believe what you hear!
We welcome Sam Wenc from NYC with a packed night
An assemblage of sonic vignettes sculpted from digital electronics, live improvisation, and studio manipulation, percussionist Lesley Mok presents a solo set where the music feels like a passage through affective zones—like a slow deliberate walk through a museum where its unknown sensorium unfolds itself to you.
Joining the bill will be a solo project from Chicago ex-pat percussionist Matt Carroll titled SloGlo. Opening the night will be Ishamel Ali performing new compositions with ensemble Ed Wilkerson Jr. and Bill Harris.
Jim Baker, Steve Hunt, and Jakob Heinemann’s music moves between electroacoustic dialogues involving Baker’s ARP-2600 and free jazz-derived piano trio excursions.
Keefe Jackson Quartet features Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, and Quin Kirchner, with pieces by Keefe Jackson. Brent Burton of JazzTimes comments, "These guys do what seems to come naturally to Chicago-based outfits: They make freedom sound friendly.”
8:30 pm: Baker / Hunt / Heinemann
9:30 pm: Keefe Jackson Quartet
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
VASTLab brings VLX, its touring experimental film series, to Elastic Arts with 11 short films from 9 countries and a live score from Chicago duo Nireus.
We’re excited to welcome two solo electronic artists from Philadelphia, Morgan Garrett and Gloorp. Chicago artists Z Soniat and Rikki G. Godd open the evening.
An evening of collective exploration from two open-ended ensembles balancing alt-jazz groove and experimentation, lead by Juliann Wang and Matt Coglianese
Join us for a special activation of our current visual gallery exhibition “quiet as it’s kept” curated by Harlem West. Today will be another opportunity to see the work, but also experience live ‘sonic storytelling’ from Dark Matter Residency alumni Carissa Pickney along with curator Harlem West. Please join us! The event is free and open to the public.
Ken Ueno presents an evening of solo performance. The program foregrounds Ueno’s extended vocal techniques, embodied movement practices, and exploration of resonance, breath, and physical gesture as compositional material. Combining improvisation, experimental sound, and person-specific approaches to performance, the event moves between intimate sonic textures and visceral physicality, creating a space where voice, body, and environment become deeply intertwined. We welcome Ken from Berkeley, CA.
Banana Acid is an improvising ensemble made up of Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, and Tyler Wagner. Banana Acid is committed to the practice of spontaneous composition. Their unique sonic language synthesizes deep individual studies of various music traditions, including early jazz, free jazz, classical, electro-acoustic, and folk music.
8:30 pm: Ken Ueno
9:30 pm: BananaAcid
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
