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Our September Pleiades Series welcomes bassoonist and noise-maker Gabi Vanek in from Iowa City, IA. Their sonic interests center on the aesthetic and tonal crossover between contemporary classical music and harsh noise.
TROMPE is an improvising music trio from the east coast featuring Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Jeff Song (cello, pictured) and Daniel Lin (cello). For this concert they will be joined by special guests (and Chicago music heroes) Michael Zerang (drums, percussion) and Jeb Bishop (trombone).
Percussionist Tyler Tadlock joins us from Jackson, Mississippi in an ad-hoc group with Jeb Bishop and Christopher RIggs.
AfroFuturist Dance Party ft. Duane Powell, CTRL Zora, Harlem West, Nova Zaii and nxtlvl. Offsite in Bronzeville
Dark Matter Resident Xavi Burgos presents a staged reading of “Black Warrior Angel” (Part One) offsite in Humboldt Park
Mike Monford’s J Dilla Tribute; Rap panel led by Dark Matter Resident Aquil “AQ” Charlton. At Elastic Arts’ Logan Square space (3429 W. Diversey Unit 208)
AfroFuturist Weekend concludes with an offsite collaboration with Elastic Arts’ AfriClassical Futures series, at Bronzeville’s Blanc Gallery. Detroit’s “White Flowers” is a string ensemble exploring the teachings of Dr. Yusuf Lateef; multiinstrumentalist BSA Gold begins the afternoon
French flutist and electronics musician Calamity and Chicago drummer and composer Tim Daisy will present a set of duo improvisations which also marks their first live duo performance in the United States.
Acorn Projects is an ongoing collaboration between string players Ilana Waniuk (Los Angeles), Myra Hinrichs (Los Angeles), Dan Galat (Chicago), and Kelly Quesada (Chicago). They function as an interdisciplinary quartet of equals, questioning and reimagining relationships between the individual, the environment, and the binaries we collectively imagine as constructing the world around us.
8:30 pm: Acorn Projects
9:30 pm: Calamity + Tim Daisy Duo
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Percussionist Jon Mueller visits forming a trio with Wisoconsin pianist Matt Blair and Chicago bassist Ro Lundberg.
Nathan Hanson and Steve Hirsh create spontaneously composed music that starts from an impulse informed by jazz.
Aine Nakamura will present her work Breath in this World. The work is for spoken words, sung voice and body movement. "As I see the moon in the night's darkness, which receives the light from the sun, the earth changing the light's shape with the earth’s shadow, I think about light and darkness, lines and shapes, wounds and love, and humans’ eyes."
![AfroFuturist Weekend 11: "What's In the Cipher?" [Offsite AT THE.BLKROOM] Residents Panel ft. author ytasha womack](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000c5f2251b727ae1f8e1ab/1788282223025-DR2GGXFQY5AYUIUIXMIY/AFW+FLYER+2.png)
![AFROFUTURIST WEEKEND 11: AFROFUTURIST DANCE PARTY [OFFSITE] FT. DJ DUANE POWELL, CTRLZORA, Harlem West](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000c5f2251b727ae1f8e1ab/1788283603114-2M55QFCZ43S0R4KBO6EN/10_2.png)
![AFw 2026: Xavi burgos, Black warrior angel (part one) staged reading and talkbalk [offsite in humboldt Park]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000c5f2251b727ae1f8e1ab/1789595148866-T8W2LYSKJ30FIBD34JJZ/Black+Warrior+Angel+Promo.jpeg)
![AFROFUTURIST WEEKEND 11: africlassical futures presents Autophysiopsychic Millennium’s ‘White Flowers’ (Detroit), BSA Gold [offsite at bronzeville’s blanc gallery]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6000c5f2251b727ae1f8e1ab/1788288447332-9N2W96IAR05QCJ6E0V97/104+white+flowers.png)
