Audible Gallery
Audible at ESS is a public space and gallery for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists projects. A simple 400-square-foot space at street level, the space is not only used for ESS programs and events, but is also open to proposals by artists, organizations, and community members. Please contact us for more information. Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-5pm and by appointment
Sunday Solos
ESS hosts a bi-weekly series of hour-long afternoon performances in the acoustically pristine studio space. It’s a great opportunity to hear Chicago’s musical luminaries in a relaxed, intimate setting.
Florasonic
Florasonic is a unique program that commissions composers and artists to make new site-specific music and audio art installations for the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, a turn-of-the-century greenhouse. Curated by ESS Executive Director Lou Mallozzi, florasonic presents each project for three to five months, visited by an estimated 500 to 1,000 people each day. Lincoln Park Conservatory: 2391 North Stockton Drive, open daily 9am- 5pm, free admission
Outer Ear Festival of Sound
The Outer Ear Festival of Sound is an annual multidisciplinary celebration of the sonic arts. Held each November at various locations throughout Chicago, Outer Ear includes concerts, installations, performances, screenings, public art projects, radio broadcasts, workshops, and roundtable discussions by local, national, and international artists. The Outer Ear Festival of Sound is the Midwest’s only comprehensive multidisciplinary sonic arts festival.
Favorite Chicago Sounds
Favorite Chicago Sounds is a collaborative web site designed to showcase unique audio portraits of Chicago and mirror what Chicagoans think about their city’s soundscape. FCS is a program of Experimental Sound Studio and operates in partnership with Chicago Public Radio, who auditions FCS-collected sounds for broadcast as part of their ongoing Sonic Soundscapes project. The “Favorite Sounds” project was initiated in London in 1998 by sound artist Peter Cusack and has been carried out in Beijing and other world cities.
