http://www.exsost.org Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:01:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Edible Audible Picnic The Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park July 6 noon This week, ESS presents the next Edible Audible Picnic--a series of free noontime concerts held each Monday in the Pritzker Pavilion. The four pieces in the program are a sonic exploration of hypnosis and disorientation, enveloping listeners beneath the extraordinary Pritzker Pavilion ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/07/02/hypnosis-in-the-pritzker/ It's been an exciting week at ESS. A power outage during last week's unusually violent storm caused our sump pump to temporarily fail. The deluge made it's way into the basement but, thanks to the quick work of our staff and volunteers, no lasting damage occurred to anything. The archive ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/06/29/unexpected-spring-cleaning/ June 28 2pm Dave Rempis Dave Rempis began his musical studies at the age of 8, inspired by a family friend who played clarinet in local Greek bands, and by Zoot, of the Muppets Band, to pick up saxophone. In 1993, Rempis began a degree in classical saxophone at ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/06/22/sunday-solos-dave-rempis/ Rachel Damon and Dan Mohr perform Stridulate, the fruits of their year-long investigation of voice and movement, this weekend at Galaxie. The evening-length performance was sponsored by CROSSCUT, a grant for new collaborations between movement and sound artists offered jointly by Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall. photo by Carl Wiedemann Zac ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/06/15/crosscut-recipients-present-new-work-at-the-galaxie/ June 14 2pm Flutist, bandleader, composer and educator Mitchell has been noted as “a compelling improviser of wit, determination, positivity, and tremendous talent...on her way to becoming one of the greatest living flutists in jazz,” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader). Mitchell placed first as Downbeat magazine’s "Rising Star Flutist 2005-2008, was ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/06/08/sunday-solos-nicole-mitchell/ June 7 2pm ESS is pleased to host an hour of music with Chicago jazz legend Ken Vandermark. This is a rare opportunity to hear McArthur Fellow and former Tribune Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts Vandermark play solo in our intimate, inviting studio. We hope you can join ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/06/01/sunday-solos-ken-vandermark/ May 15 - July 5 Audible Gallery at ESS 5925 N. Ravenswood Opening reception: May 15, 6 - 9pm.  Special guest performance by Guillermo Gregorio at 7. Throughout his career as an artist, Fred Holland has been unflinching in his confrontation of political and social themes. Yet, as strong as the polemics ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/05/13/beautiful-fragments-in-the-audible-gallery/ When entering the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, you hear leave(leaf)/believe: A Meditation on the Complex Intersection between Emotions, Reason, and Faith—a sound work by Chicago composer Julia Miller, and the next installation in ESS’s ongoing Florasonic series. The composition is an amalgamation of words, ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/05/04/florasonic-opens-this-week/ May 3 2pm Chicago anti-cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm is known for working with a wide variety of musicians in as many situations as possible. On May 3, however, Fred will give a solo one-hour benefit performance in the ESS studio space. We hope you can join us for an intimate ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/04/27/sunday-solos-fred-lonberg-holm/ Sunday, April 26 2pm Former Chicagoan Lynn Book has a vibrant stream of interdisciplinary artistic practice that traverses boundaries between performance art, dance, theater, language and new music forms. She deploys what she calls ‘voiced bodies’ wherein a new indeterminacy is at play, challenging the stability of order, destabilizing ... http://www.exsost.org/2009/04/20/sunday-solos-lynn-book/