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It’s always a pleasure to have our friend Allen Moore present audio work in our space, so it’s a great pleasure to host his exhibition Sunday Mourning throughout February in celebration of Black History Month. His recent body of work investigates both the audio and visual element of black death and black grief. His conceptual premise is to analyze the signifiers of Blackness through performative Improvisation and experimentation. Moore is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black Imagination.

We’ll open doors at 7pm and Allen will present an audio/visual performance at 8pm.

It's melodic and harmonic. It's percussive and smooth. It's old as hell, and sometimes, it's just furniture. We're talking about one of the most versatile instruments out there, the piano. Hosted by composer Sharon Udoh, a pianist of 40 years, the series "A Pianist and a Partner Perhaps" highlights 3 or 4 genre-spanning musicians for whom the piano has been a long-time love. Each pianist can choose to bring one additional musician in a duo offering, if they wish (thus, "a partner perhaps"), or, they can go at it solo. Piano players, lovers, and nerds everywhere, come join us as we celebrate this magnificent instrument!

At this second edition of PPP we have Justin Dillard w/ Anisha Rush, Anaiet Soul, Julian Davis Reid w/ Tramaine Parker, Angelo Hart, and hosted by the one and only Sharon Udoh. Sharon will perform a short set with experimental turntablist Allen Moore to open the night!

IMS brings the double trio trouble — up-and-coming players bring a fresh spin on the piano trio format, followed by a chamber trio whose amplifications promise to push their instruments to the edge.

An evening of duos. We welcome back former Chicagoans olula negre and Torstein Johansen in the form of their electro-acoustic duo ¡Bananaquit! and celebrate Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon’s release “The other side of the air” on the ambient label Dinzu Artefacts.

This month’s CLEAT Series is packed with unique approaches to spatial audio, featuring four performances from a diverse range of composers.

CLEAT is proud to present an intimate evening of music by the internationally acclaimed composer Annea Lockwood. Included in this evening's concert will be the composition Thirst, which was commissioned in 2008 by Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, to be played back through a multichannel system nearly identical to the CLEAT system. The program also contains Lockwood's Spirit Catchers (1974), performed by Stephan Moore, Senem Pirler, Nevo Shinaar, and Kari Watson, with Lockwood herself live-mixing into the CLEAT system

Asian Improv aRts Midwest presents: Trio WAZ

For the last 23 years, Trio WAZ has performed together, making it one of the longest standing experimental music trios in Chicago.  Trio WAZ is an eclectic experimental group made up of the time honored members:  Edward Wilkerson Jr. - one of the great saxophone and clarinet players on the Chicago scene, Tatsu Aoki - a prolific artist, composer, musician, educator, and consummate bassist and Shamisen Lute player, and Michael Zerang - a percussionist focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms.  Each brings their own unique arsenal of musical savvy mixing it up with their distinct dispositions to interplay and an incomparable synthesis of musical actuality.  Come in and celebrate National Margarita Day with the musical triple sec of Trio WAZ . (please bring your own limes and tequila).

The fantastic Erica Dawn Lyle returns from NYC followed by a trio led by the phenomenal Luke Polipnick.

We’re back with another Sonic Celluloid at Elastic Arts, an annual event put on by Northwestern University’s WNUR radio program The Rock Show. The event highlights artists exploring the experimental and psychedelic sides of audio and film. This year each artist has chosen a selection of experimental films of the past to then compose / perform live scores for the evening. Tonight we’ll have BCMC (Cooper Crain + Bill MacKay), CHEER-ACCIDENT, and Lia Kohl.