Suite for Bass and Ironing Bored Variation is a 20-minute piece performed by six bassists under the direction of bass choirmaster Tatsu Aoki.

A double bill of new vocal music!

Join us on 4/12/2024 at 7:00 pm for an evening of experimental community and multimedia theater at the International Museum of Surgical Science.

Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones pushes the boundaries of free jazz, composition and electronic forms, with the raw riotous energy of “spiritual punk”

Join us for a special collaboration between Duo RIso and Garden Unit Duo as a quartet!

Birdhouse Inc., Constellation, and Experimental Sound Studio are proud to present the Greg Ward Quartet performing Fred Anderson, Composer; interpretations celebrating Fred Anderson’s 95th year. 

The Bridgeport-based string duo presents an evening-length work for detuning instruments by Shi-An Costello.

Veronica Anne Salinas will be leading a deep listening practice followed by a guitar drone performance by Zane Morris.

Featuring works by women composers, including a world premiere by Kristen Kunkle, in collaboration with Dr. Abbie Brewer, piano.

Join us for the release of Osnat Netzer's debut album of contemporary chamber music, with live performances, refreshments and an art exhibit

In partnership with New Music Chicago Presents, CCE presents the program "The Midwestern Connection" which features mixed chamber music by living composers based in Chicago and the Midwest.

Laurel Halo performs solo at Bond Chapel. Presented in partnership with The Renaissance Society

Pianist and Chicago Composers Consortium member Larry Axelrod performs works by Lisbon-based composers, as well as his own composition.

Experience the Midwest premiere of legendary minimalist composer La Monte Young’s The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in Dream Light.

Experimental Sound Studio and Asian Improv Arts Midwest are proud to present Japanese performer, composer, and sound poet Tomomi Adachi with Chicago artist Lou Mallozzi.

For this one night performance, musician and composer Macie Stewart has arranged her debut solo album Mouth Full of Glass for a large ensemble. The evening opens with a special guest performance by Damon Locks and Dana Hall.

ESS presents Moment to Moment, a collective of artists including Hamid Drake, Joshua Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Michael Zerang, and Zahra Baker.

Friday, April 21: The Bridge Presents Sophie Agnel & Michael Zerang - 7:30PM

The Tuning of the Elements involves four distinct areas of binaural electronic beat patterns corresponding to the frequencies of different brainwaves, situated around a droning string quartet in the center.

A special afternoon of free music with a subset of the magisterial Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek's incendiary large ensemble.

For the first time in over five years, Rob Mazurek’s long-running Exploding Star Orchestra returns home to Chicago for an immersive performance at the Adler Planetarium. Experimental Sound Studio and International Anthem—two Chicago leaders in exploratory music—join forces to bring nine performers from across the U.S. to for one night only amidst Mazurek’s abstract video work, presented in epic proportions across the sky dome.

Lia Kohl presents a live rendition of her first LP, The Ceiling Reposes, out March 10th on American Dreams Records, featuring lush soundscapes of cello, synthesizers, live radios, and more. Kohl will perform in the beautiful Hall of the Immortals, overlooking Lake Shore Drive.

Inspired in the poem "A door in a mountain" by Jean Valentine, this concert series envisions a space that unites four intergenerational female, non-binary, and other underrepresented gender identity artists from different parts of the world, in different art mediums: writing, music & visual art.

In the second iteration of ESS's residency exchange program with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain, Spanish artist Clara de Asìs and Chicago artist Veronica Anne Salinas have been sharing ideas and processes across continents throughout this summer.

ESS is honored to be invited to curate and organize a streaming program as part of The Wire Magazine 40th Anniversary this July. Featuring new work by an international line-up of artists.

ESS is honored to be invited to curate and organize a streaming program as part of The Wire Magazine 40th Anniversary this July. Featuring new work by an international line-up of artists.

A genre-defying adventure into the orchestra as sound-art. How can orchestral sound become the material for artistic exploration? Find out how sound artists reinvent what the orchestral medium can mean.

In celebration of two current exhibitions, Corbett vs Dempsey is pleased to present a special live-streaming event titled Sequesterfest Vol. 8: Emilio Cruz & Dick Higgins.

Brackish returns to the virtual stage at Experimental Sound Studio for the second edition of their Arts + Video Spectacular.

This is the third in a series of four concerts Rhizome DC has presented this Fall as part of Janel Leppin's performance residency. Each show features new compositions for her group Ensemble Volcanic Ash featuring: Luke Stewart (bass) / Brian Settles (sax) / Anthony Pirog (guitar) / Kim Sator (harp) / Sarah Hughes (sax) / Larry Fergusen (drums) / Janel Leppin (cello, compositions). Opening up tonight will be Synthador. Broadcast live from Rhizome DC.