As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The inaugural 2019 February Archive Dive newsletter features Don Dietrich.
Read MoreAhead of Gerry Hemmingway’s concert this Monday for Option, we dug through the Creative Audio Archives housed at ESS to see what we have from the percussionist’s many visits to Chicago.
Read MoreSonic Genealogies: Olivia Block on Harry Bertoia for Radio from Reina Sofia Museum
Read MoreESS sat down with Stephan Moore, composer and sound artist, for an interview about his Florasonic piece that’s currently up in the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room. A Grid Against the Sky will be up from Sunday, December 10th - Friday, March 2nd, 2018.
Read MoreWe interviewed Lou Mallozzi and Joseph Clayton Mills about their Ten x Ten collaboration, artistic process, and how the idea of narrative plays out in their piece.
Read MoreJoshua Dumas' new Florasonic installation Night Songs for the Birds of North America opens this Sunday, January 22nd in the Fern Room at Lincoln Park Conservatory with an artist reception from 3-5pm. On the occasion of the opening, ESS Co-director Olivia Junell interviewed Dumas about his approach to the commission.
Read MoreDan Mohr interviews Coppice about Fake Memories Object, a track from a larger project called Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom. The duo worked on this project as resident artists at ESS in 2015.
Read MoreCornetist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay has been making waves in various circles of the Chicago creative music scene for the past few years. While many may know him as an accomplished improviser, his versatility is demonstrated in his new Brazilian-tinged, song-based project Benjamim e Edinho, a collaboration with Rio-based musician Edinho Gerber and percussionist Tommaso Moretti. We spoke with Ben about his process, Fellini, and creative methods of releasing music.
Read MoreDan Mohr discusses the aftermath of the retirement of ESS Executive Director Lou Mallozzi in July of 2016, and the future of the organization after the existing staff absorbed his duties. Includes video and audio memories of ESS, and a performance by Jaap Blonk. (Photo by Jason P. Holmes.)
Read MoreTim Daisy’s The Glass House was a subtle work that contemplates the architecture of the Lincoln Park Conservatory. The piece, composed for vibraphone, cymbals, radio, and vintage turntables, is structured as four independent sections of different duration that play simultaneously from the four speakers in the Fern Room, guaranteeing a unique experience for each visitor. The Glass House was commissioned by ESS for its ongoing Florasonic series.
Read Moresix-spot burnet, “named for the visually striking red spotted zygaena filipendulae moth", is a document of the first-ever Grykes performance. It occurred at the Empty Bottle on the Articular Facet series in 2013. Netlabel pan y rosas discos later released the recording for free download.
Dan Mohr corresponded with the artists on the occasion of their Friday concert on ESS’s OUTER EAR series—which will be the second time the duo has performed live under the Grykes aegis.
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