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Elastic Arts The Elastic Arts Foundation (EAF) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization focusing on music - art

TONIGHT!Join us for ‘Returning’, a shared excavation and exploration of developmental trauma, mental health, and healing...
06/22/2025

TONIGHT!

Join us for ‘Returning’, a shared excavation and exploration of developmental trauma, mental health, and healing. It is an immersive 16-channel soundscape, performance, and participatory somatic workshop. The piece will feature Leana Allen, Sofía Gabriel, Jordan Knecht, and Farah Salem.

Please join us for a quiet listening window from 7pm-8pm. An engaged activation will then begin at 8pm, lasting approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. Please note that there will be scents present in the space. We’ll see you tonight!

TONIGHT!The Elastro series welcomes Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-channel CLEAT sy...
06/21/2025

TONIGHT!

The Elastro series welcomes Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-channel CLEAT system, a duo from Daniel Van Duerm and Fred Jackson Jr, and a solo performance from vocalist Janna Lee.

Flanger Magazine creates relaxed and intimate improvisations embracing analog synth and folk sounds alike. The artist creates light experimental music that recalls the twisted folk of contemporaries Brannten Schnüre, the less structured explorations of the Advisory Circle, and even Graeme Miller and Steve Shill’s warm and inviting Moomins music.

Van Duerm / Jackson will utilize grand piano, electronics, woodwinds, and percussion to spontaneously compose dynamic compositions that highlight both artists’ ability to straddle melody and dissonance.

Janna Lee is a Chicago artist who uses her voice to explore various facets of herself, and blur the line between angel and demon. Her solo work combines harsh noise and haunting vocals that probe the dark recesses of a woman’s psyche. She loves to confront uncomfortable things in her solo practice to make sense of them and heal herself.

Music at 8!

IMPROVISED MUSIC! TONIGHT!Opening the night is the double drum quartet Fred Jackson’s Double Helix. We’ll then hear from...
06/19/2025

IMPROVISED MUSIC! TONIGHT!

Opening the night is the double drum quartet Fred Jackson’s Double Helix. We’ll then hear from the electroacoustic improvisatory quartet Brochure! It will be a special night of sound. Join us! Music at 8:30pm

Set 1 8:30pm

Fred Jackson’s Double Helix

Fred Jackson - alto sax, flute, percussion
Ishmael Ali - cello, percussion
Bill Harris - drum set
Avreeayl Ra - drum set

Set 2 - 9:30pm

Brochure

Norman Long - electronics
Julian Otis - voice and electronics
OUI ENNUI - electronics
Alex Wing.- guitar, clarinet, piano, bass, etc.

Join us this Sunday evening for ‘Returning’, a shared excavation and exploration of developmental trauma, mental health,...
06/19/2025

Join us this Sunday evening for ‘Returning’, a shared excavation and exploration of developmental trauma, mental health, and healing. It is an immersive 16-channel soundscape, performance, and participatory somatic workshop. The piece will feature Leana Allen, Sofía Gabriel, Jordan Knecht, and Farah Salem.

Please join us for a quiet listening window from 7pm-8pm. An engaged activation will then begin at 8pm, lasting approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. Please note that there will be scents present in the space. We’ll see you Sunday!

At this Friday June 20th Elastro series we welcome Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-c...
06/18/2025

At this Friday June 20th Elastro series we welcome Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-channel CLEAT system, a duo from Daniel Van Duerm and Fred Jackson Jr, and a solo performance from vocalist Janna Lee. Flanger Magazine creates relaxed and intimate improvisations embracing analog synth and folk sounds alike. The artist creates light experimental music that recalls the twisted folk of contemporaries Brannten Schnüre, the less structured explorations of the Advisory Circle, and even Graeme Miller and Steve Shill’s warm and inviting Moomins music. Van Duerm / Jackson will utilize grand piano, electronics, woodwinds, and percussion to spontaneously compose dynamic compositions that highlight both artists’ ability to straddle melody and dissonance. Janna Lee is a Chicago artist who uses her voice to explore various facets of herself, and blur the line between angel and demon. Her solo work combines harsh noise and haunting vocals that probe the dark recess

At Thursday’s Improvised Music Series we present rhythmic intensity from two different lenses. Opening the night is the ...
06/17/2025

At Thursday’s Improvised Music Series we present rhythmic intensity from two different lenses. Opening the night is the double drum quartet Fred Jackson’s Double Helix. We’ll then hear from the electroacoustic improvisatory quartet Brochure! It will be a special night of sound. Join us! Music at 8:30pm

Set 1 8:30pm

Fred Jackson’s Double Helix

Fred Jackson - alto sax, flute, percussion
Ishmael Ali - cello, percussion
Bill Harris - drum set
Avreeayl Ra - drum set

Set 2 - 9:30pm

Brochure

Norman Long - electronics
Julian Otis - voice and electronics
OUI ENNUI - electronics
Alex Wing.- guitar, clarinet, piano, bass, etc.

TONIGHT!At this evening’s CLEAT Series we’ll have a solo performance from Laurentse, a duo of series curator Sam Clapp a...
06/14/2025

TONIGHT!

At this evening’s CLEAT Series we’ll have a solo performance from Laurentse, a duo of series curator Sam Clapp and Jake Leech, then a fixed media choir composition from Kate In!

Kate In presents Drop Lift & Fly, a composition for live choir and fixed media that moves through themes of ecological mimicry, ceremony, and cybernetics. It uses the interplay between the choir’s voice array and the CLEAT system’s overhead speaker grid to explore the spatial dimensions of sound.

Laurentse is the moniker of Chicago-based musician Max Reikosky. Via prior releases with Shimmering Moods Records and Melty Tapes, his output spans electro-acoustic ambient palettes to art-damaged sound collage. His current work aims to explore the process of merging identities through cross-genre pollination, multi-instrumental experiments, and spontaneous field recording.

Bassist Jake Leech will then connect with musician Sam Clapp for a first-time duo performance.

Sounds at 8pm!

At the Friday June 20th Elastro series we welcome Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-ch...
06/13/2025

At the Friday June 20th Elastro series we welcome Kentucky-based artist Flanger Magazine presenting a piece on the 16-channel CLEAT system, a duo from Daniel Van Duerm and Fred Jackson Jr, and a solo performance from vocalist Janna Lee. Flanger Magazine creates relaxed and intimate improvisations embracing analog synth and folk sounds alike. The artist creates light experimental music that recalls the twisted folk of contemporaries Brannten Schnüre, the less structured explorations of the Advisory Circle, and even Graeme Miller and Steve Shill’s warm and inviting Moomins music. Van Duerm / Jackson will utilize grand piano, electronics, woodwinds, and percussion to spontaneously compose dynamic compositions that highlight both artists’ ability to straddle melody and dissonance. Janna Lee is a Chicago artist who uses her voice to explore various facets of herself, and blur the line between angel and demon. Her solo work combines harsh noise and haunting vocals that probe the dark recesses of a woman’s psyche. She loves to confront uncomfortable things in her solo practice to make sense of them and heal herself. Mark the calendar and meet us here next Friday 6/20!

This Saturday evening join us as we host the People’s Puppet Slam at Elastic Arts. You can expect a variety of outrageou...
06/12/2025

This Saturday evening join us as we host the People’s Puppet Slam at Elastic Arts. You can expect a variety of outrageous, silly, and interactive performances featuring puppets and more! This is thee People’s Puppet Fest’s FIRST EVER Puppet Slam, so join us and be a part of unorthodox Chicago history!

Featuring performances by Daniela Kreidler & Eric Mercure, PRIMITIVE DESTRUCTION OF THE FUTURE, Gretchen Hasse, & Anna Diaz. We’ll get started at 7pm. See you there!

At this Thursday’s Improvised Music Series Detroit pianist Michael Malis gives a solo performance followed by a new elec...
06/09/2025

At this Thursday’s Improvised Music Series Detroit pianist Michael Malis gives a solo performance followed by a new electro-acoustic quartet STOMACHS featuring Mabel Kwan, Carol Genetti, Nick Meryhew, and Bill Harris.

In his solo performances, Malis sculpts sonic environment which centers on the piano, free improvisation, and presence of sound. Supplemented by synthesizers, pedals, and various auxiliary keyboards like melodica and accordion, Malis creates sound worlds that are patient, inviting, provocative, and full of texture.

STOMACHS squeak, honk, clank, clunk, buzz, rattle, drone, groan, bellow, and befriend.

Music at 8:30pm!

Set 1
8:30pm

Michael Malis - piano, keyboards, synths, effects

Set 2
9:30pm

STOMACHS

Mabel Kwan - Synths
Carol Genetti - Voice, Electronics
Nick Meryhew - Trombone, Electronics
Bill Harris - Drums

Join us this Sunday for Shake Shook Shaken, our theater/movement workshop series produced by Julie Meckler. The series i...
06/05/2025

Join us this Sunday for Shake Shook Shaken, our theater/movement workshop series produced by Julie Meckler. The series is designed for people to gently bring body awareness, allowing participants to open up, explore outside of their comfort zone, bond with each other, create and show. By playing with these concepts using our bodies, voices, words, and each other, we will explore our own awareness and sensitivity as artists and people.

Each workshop is unique. This month we’ll have Emily Beisel and Julie leading on the topic of PRESENCE.

No prior dance or acting experience is necessary, just willingness to move and exhale. This workshop series is for anyone and everyone. We’ll see you this Sunday at 12pm!

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Chicago, IL
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