Pianist Adam Tendler has led a colorful career, from a 50-state grassroots recital tour of American piano music (88x50), to realizing the feat of performing modern works from memory, like John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, and here for this event, Feldman’s Palais de Mari. A professor of Sound and Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute, Robert Snyder is the author of Music and Memory (MIT Press). A pianist and composer, Andy Costello is the founder and executive director of the Morton Feldman Chamber Players.

Morton Feldman Chamber Players, in an ongoing partnership with Experimental Sound Studio, will present two world premieres for piano and voice, and piano and electronics, respectively. Kurt Isaacson's (USA) 'vanishing species' is a part of animal-inspired works that artfully and abstractly tackles issues of animal rights and appreciation of species of the past and present, both vanished and vanishing. Marielle Groven's (CAN) 'Slow Movement' builds a vast spatial setting for melodic contours that unravel with, at once, intensity and serenity.

Programme:
FELDMAN: Palais de Mari
FELDMAN: Piano Four Hands
JOHN CAGE: Two⁵

Andy Costello - piano
Weston Olencki - trombone

Saturday, Nov. 22, 9pm
Free admission

2014-15 resident ensemble Morton Feldman Chamber Players present a panel discussion on Feldman's Three Voices, featuring soprano Charlotte Mundy, and members of Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. Quince performs Three Voices as a trio on October 24th and 25th at University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, and Kent State University, respectively. Charlotte Mundy performs the work as a soloist with tape on November 5th at Constellation in Chicago. MFCP founder and director Andy Costello will lead the discussion.

Admission is FREE

Last summer, ESS had the extreme good fortune of being selected by the PianoForte Foundation as a recipient of a beautiful Young-Chang baby grand through their Gift of Pianos program. To celebrate, we're presenting two of our favorite pianists (plus a guitarist and a clarinet player) in a free concert highlighting the works of composers Scott Joplin and Morton Feldman.

OSCILLATIONS is the newest addition to ESS’ regular programming (SummerSonic, Outer Ear, Florasonic, Audible Gallery, &c.). In this eclectic series, presented artists were sourced from submissions received in abundant response to an open call for proposals addressed to creative musicians and sound artists from Chicago and beyond. The eight selected artists operate in a diverse array of genres, from contemporary composition to experimental folk to ambient improvisation; each night features a bill of two complimentary or contrasting artists selected from the submissions we received.