Elastic Arts, 3429 W Diversey #208, Chicago, IL (2025)

09/19/2025

Tonight we welcome FLYDLPHN, a mixed chamber ensemble that advocates for collaborative, unrestrictive play, making extensive use of electro-acoustic, multimedia, and improvised performance. They will collaborate with Chicago-based composer and sound designer Austin Gray Williams who uses both traditional and exploratory compositional techniques with a generally maximal approach.

We’ll then hear from Keefe Jackson, Molly Jones, and Mai Sugimoto. Three woodwind artists, three Chicago stalwarts, three unique approaches. Structural situations are provided by Keefe Jackson and compositions by all three. Repetition, romanticism, and longueur are among the touchstones. Poised expressions and vibrating incantations, living on the edge. Join us!

8:30 FLYDLPHN

9:30 Jackson Jones Sugimoto

09/18/2025

Join us this Saturday for another edition of HEAVENSWARE, an audio//visual all night experience featuring the best in live hardware music.

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MUSIC: ✶ Donkey Basketball ✶ K-Rad ✶ Lorna Dune [Mke] ✶ Ole Mic Odd ✶ shinespark

VISUALS: ✧ Venosci

HEAVENSWARE is an experience by Night Logistics and NFC Records, celebrating the diversity of machines used to produce and perform electronic music. Along with realtime audio performances, HEAVENSWARE features cutting edge live visuals to enhance and amplify the sounds. Join us at 9pm this Saturday! Tickets available at the door

09/17/2025

Join us this Friday for the closing celebration of Ecstatic Hyperbole, the dual visual gallery exhibition of Sarah Kim and Zante Moore. From 5-8pm, we will have light refreshments, snacks, and a karaoke station set up for you to sing along as we bid adieu to the new media exhibition in the gallery. Admission is free to the public.

09/16/2025

This Thursday we welcome FLYDLPHN, a mixed chamber ensemble that advocates for collaborative, unrestrictive play, making extensive use of electro-acoustic, multimedia, and improvised performance. They will collaborate with Chicago-based composer and sound designer Austin Gray Williams who uses both traditional and exploratory compositional techniques with a generally maximal approach.

We’ll then hear from Keefe Jackson, Molly Jones, and Mai Sugimoto. Three woodwind artists, three Chicago stalwarts, three unique approaches. Structural situations are provided by Keefe Jackson and compositions by all three. Repetition, romanticism, and longueur are among the touchstones. Poised expressions and vibrating incantations, living on the edge. Join us!

8:30 FLYDLPHN

9:30 Jackson Jones Sugimoto

09/16/2025

Join us for Elastro A/V - September 26-27! Two nights of audio and video installations/performances from a wide range of Chicago artists! Night 1 curated by Suspended Culture. Night 2 curated by Yousif Alzayed. Join us!

09/12/2025

TONIGHT!

We have an incredibly special CLEAT Series this evening with two duos, Tuli Bera / Scott Rubin and ‘between systems and grounds’.

‘between systems and grounds’ is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Paula Matthusen (Middletown, CT) and Olivia Valentine (Des Moines, IA), who began working together in 2015 when they met in Rome, Italy. Through their joint project, they have produced two albums and performed and exhibited work in venues spanning art and music venues across the US and internationally.

This performance at CLEAT celebrates the third album release by the duo, Live from the Davis Street Drawing Room (Carrier Records), which was performed and recorded at the inspiring space developed by Anne Wilson.

Tuli Bera and Scott Rubin invite the audience to reflect on rituals in their lives. Their morning routines, their favorite recipes, their commutes, their creative practices, their anxieties, the cycles of thoughts running through their minds, their healing practices… What is sacred, what feels meaningless, what is left in the past, and what needs to change?

This performance is a chronicle of the friendship and interdisciplinary collaboration between Bera and Rubin. Drawing from their practices in movement, viola, choreography, composition, improvisation, electronic music, and live projections, the performers present a weave of vignettes, each offering a new angle of reflection.

Music at 8pm!

09/12/2025

This Sunday join the artists and curator for open gallery hours of our exhibition ‘Ecstatic Hyperbole’. We will have books and zines related to the exhibition for open reading and viewing. Exhibition catalog zines with artist interviews will also be available to pick up for free. Mark your calendar and come check out the show!

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Ecstatic Hyperbole at Elastic Arts
Sundays 9/7 & 9/14 from 2-5pm
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The exhibition will be up until September 19, 2025, when there will be a free closing event open to the public for one last chance to see the show.

09/11/2025

TONIGHT!

Tonight the Improvised Music Series hosts two free-jazz groupings with all-star casts. Chrysalis is a Chicago-based quartet uniting some of the city’s most accomplished improvisers: Dan Bitney (percussion, electronics), Keefe Jackson (reeds), Jim Baker (piano, synthesizer), and Ausberto Acevedo (bass). Together, they create music that merges free improvisation, jazz, and experimental soundscapes.

CHICAGO MICROBES is the newest project led by composer/saxophonist/guitarist Will Greene. Featuring Jason Roebke on double bass and Phil Sudderberg on drums, this trio embraces and sabotages this classic lineup in a single breath. Skeptically tuneful and skillfully obtuse. This will be a wonderful night. Join us!

8:30 Chrysalis

Ausberto Acevedo - bass
Keefe Jackson - reeds
Jim Baker - piano, synthesizer
Dan Bitney - percussion. electronics

9:30 Chicago Microbes

Will Greene - saxophone, guitar
Jason Roebke - double bass
Phil Sudderberg - drumset

09/11/2025

This Saturday Nova Zaii presents his one man show featuring his invention, the Nova Portals, a device no requiring touch in order to control sound. This is an electrifying experience as he plays sound in midair, while drumming and performing his original compositions. His music stems from the lineages of Chicago House, Detroit Techno, Afro Cuban Jazz, Jazz Fusion, and overall genre-defying futuristic sonic scenery.

Zaii’s vision as an experience designer is to immerse the listener in a focused zone of profound creative stimulation, through which identity, purpose, and essence can be vividly explored and beheld.

Join us for two full sets from Nova Zaii starting at 8pm this Saturday as part of our Dark Matter Series!

09/10/2025

TONIGHT! 7:30PM!

Join us for ‘Texture’, a two hour 16mm film screening of experimental and boundary pushing non-narrative works from contemporary artists working nationally and internationally. The screening focuses on filmmakers who embrace the physical medium of film to expand the ideas of what cinema can be.

Program

-Esperanza Collado - Trágame nube (2023, 13 min)
-Sebastian Vaccaris - Colibrí (2024, 4 min)
=Maximilien Luc Proctor - Aotearoa (2024, 7 min)
-Isaac Sherman - a shifting pattern (2023, 6 min)
-Anna Kipervaser - Next Her Heart (2023, 12 min)
-Kyath Battie - Super, Natural (2025, 8 min)
-Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy - Fear of Floating (2024, 8 min)
-Sam Hoolihan - Kenilworth (2022, 12 min)
-Richard Peter Tuohy - Tooborac (2025, 9 min)
-Robbie Land - Grant Park Photosynthesis (2017, 7 min)
-Eric Theise - Hojas de Maíz (2002, 10 min)
-Nicole Blundell - Geométrika (2024, 4 min)
-Lilan Yang - Untitled Film Disinfection Project I (2025, 4 min)

TRT: 112 minute

Tickets available at the door. Special thanks to Elastic Arts, Chicago Film Society, Yeilha Vargas, Ben Creech, Joe Bauer and all participating artists.

09/10/2025

We have an incredibly special CLEAT Series this Friday with two duos, Tuli Bera / Scott Rubin and between systems and grounds.

between systems and grounds is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Paula Matthusen (Middletown, CT) and Olivia Valentine (Des Moines, IA), who began working together in 2015 when they met in Rome, Italy. Through their joint project, they have produced two albums and performed and exhibited work in venues spanning art and music venues across the US and internationally.

This performance at CLEAT celebrates the third album release by the duo, Live from the Davis Street Drawing Room (Carrier Records), which was performed and recorded at the inspiring space developed by Anne Wilson.

Tuli Bera and Scott Rubin invite the audience to reflect on rituals in their lives. Their morning routines, their favorite recipes, their commutes, their creative practices, their anxieties, the cycles of thoughts running through their minds, their healing practices… What is sacred, what feels meaningless, what is left in the past, and what needs to change?

This performance is a chronicle of the friendship and interdisciplinary collaboration between Bera and Rubin. Drawing from their practices in movement, viola, choreography, composition, improvisation, electronic music, and live projections, the performers present a weave of vignettes, each offering a new angle of reflection.

Music at 8pm!

09/09/2025

This Thursday the Improvised Music Series hosts two free-jazz groupings with all-star casts. Chrysalis is a Chicago-based quartet uniting some of the city’s most accomplished improvisers: Dan Bitney (percussion, electronics), Keefe Jackson (reeds), Jim Baker (piano, synthesizer), and Ausberto Acevedo (bass). Together, they create music that merges free improvisation, jazz, and experimental soundscapes.

CHICAGO MICROBES is the newest project led by composer/saxophonist/guitarist Will Greene. Featuring Jason Roebke on double bass and Phil Sudderberg on drums, this trio embraces and sabotages this classic lineup in a single breath. Skeptically tuneful and skillfully obtuse. This will be a wonderful night. Join us!

8:30 Chrysalis

Ausberto Acevedo - bass
Keefe Jackson - reeds
Jim Baker - piano, synthesizer
Dan Bitney - percussion. electronics

9:30 Chicago Microbes

Will Greene - saxophone, guitar
Jason Roebke - double bass
Phil Sudderberg - drumset

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