Interviews, audio, press releases and more content about ESS and the artists we work with.
In this June 2015 conversation, Paul Lytton discusses his musical origins in 1960s London, experiences playing with Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, and Barry Guy, and his recent foray into painting. This episode is sponsored by Astral Spirits Records: “The New Wave of Heavy Free Jazz since September 2014.”
Read MoreFor the show this Friday, April 16, composer and percussionist Luis Fernando Amaya created a new soundscape. Read more about Luis’s practice here, in the final of four essays written by Curatorial Fellow, Carolina Vélez Muñiz leading up to HACER RUIDO.
Read MoreIn the third of four essays on the artists to be presented in HACER RUIDO on 4/16, Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz explores the work of interdisciplinary artist and resource mining engineer Babak Ahteshamipour.
Read MoreBárbara Lázara is devoted to making space for technologies that have been betrayed and abandoned by Western thought. Learn more about this artist and her practice, in advance of her performance as part of HACER RUIDO Friday, April 16 at 7pm CT.
Read MoreESS Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz takes us into a deeper exploration of artist Soledad Muñoz’s work, in advance of her performance as part of HACER RUIDO Friday, April 16 at 7pm CT.
Read MoreWORKSHOPS ARE BACK! Join us on zoom this April for workshops each Saturday at 3pm CT with some of the top practitioners in their respective fields. Space is limited so reserve your spot now!
Read MoreChicago Reader
by Bill Meyer
March 17, 2021
Experimental Sound Studio is a nonprofit music venue, recording studio, art gallery, and audio archive that's provided a nexus for creative work in Chicago since 1986. ESS has built an audience with concerts and public exhibitions, both of which the pandemic made impossible, but despite that constraint 2020 has arguably been the studio's finest hour.
Read MoreToday Arts Alliance Illinois distributed an important call for action regarding a new proposed ordinance that would prohibit cultural exhibits, such as house museums and libraries, in nearly all residential districts. Opposition to this ordinance must be voiced by 9am CT TOMORROW 3/19. Please click here for details on the ordinance and how to take action.
Read MoreESS is excited to partner with our local, non-profit, community-based, accessibility-focused soccer club, Edgewater Castle FC in a competition for Chicago musicians, artists, and composers to write ECFC’s new club anthem. The anthem will be sung by players and fans at ECFC games and bring a sense of pride and unity to the club’s community.
Read MoreESS is excited to welcome Carolina Vélez Muñiz as its inaugural Curatorial Fellow. Carolina is an artist and independent curator from Mexico City. Her research focuses on innovations within traditional arts from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read MoreThe Creative Audio Archive at ESS seeks your idle outdated technologies in need of a good home. We are in need of some (functional) transfer decks, and will graciously accept donations of (or funding towards) a Worldwide VHS Format VCR (Samsung SV-5000W or similar); Hi8 Video Deck; MiniDisc player; Video8 Deck; 8mm or 16mm telecine / transfer units; Mini DV Deck; Hi-Fi Cassette Deck.
Read MoreAs a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA. In this issue, leading up to his appearance on the OPTION series March 1, we present a selection of recordings related to musician and record producer Jim O’Rourke.
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