TONIGHT! CLEAT SERIES! 8PM!
Solo 16-channel performances from:
Veronica Anne Salinas
Hugo Flores Garcia
Ishmael Ali
The Elastro series has an incredibly special event planned for this Saturday. ‘agua viva’ is a collective performance by Elise Butterfield, Sofía Gabriel, Anna Johnson, Jonty Paul, and Veronica Anne Salinas that weaves together sound, movement, and live video processing. agua viva draws inspiration from the natural flow of water and the possibilities of the human body. Throughout the piece, the performers’ improvisational movements and sound gestures are translated live into evolving visual projections. This interplay between movement, sound and visuals creates a dynamic conversation between performers and immerses the audience in an aquatic dreamscape.
Colectivo Polvos Rojos are two Colombian artists who migrated from Bogotá to Chicago. They met outside our mother territory in studios stained by red powder: Achiote (a tropical seed from the “global South”) and red chalk powder. Gabriela chews and stares into the eyes of Achiote to invoke secular prayers of the maternal language. At the same time, Pablo draws omens with red chalk powder, engaging with spaces’ rituals and the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. Their practices pose urgent questions-actions about migration, territorial acknowledgment, and food sovereignty. Their material explorations (spells) denounce the relationship of power and domination with which the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist system has made us forget that Earth is a sacred womb. They will continue to challenge the ideals of “progress” that have affected our territories and Latin American diasporas.
This growing collective invites people to remember the importance of having soil in the mouth.
Mauricio Lopez F’s ‘Esponjas/Espumas’ is a live, collaborative installation and performance that relies on the active involvement of both the audience and the space. Through various live recordings, a composition is created via a visual score of the room, upon which improvisation takes place, leading to the alteration of
This Friday’s CLEAT Series features solo performances from Veronica Anne Salinas, Hugo Flores García, and Ishmael Ali. Ishmael will present solo cello and electronics in 4 voices. This project explores the relationship between acoustic and electronic sounds using interplay between cello, sp404 sampler, a synth voice, and radio automated through CLEAT’s 16 channel system.
Hugo Flores García (he/they) is a Honduran computer musician, improviser, programmer, and scientist. Hugo approaches his craft with a deep curiosity for the interplay between natural and human-made sonic environments and interactions. Their hybrid research+creative practice centers around building new instruments for creative expression, focusing on artist-centered machine-learning interfaces for the sound arts. Hugo will perform with (un)sound objects, a co-creative neural musical instrument for constructing live environments comprised of sonic objects, both sound and unsound, in and at the rough edges of an AI model’s learned distribution.
Veronica Anne Salinas is a Chicago-based sound artist, writer, editor, and Deep Listener. Her work explores artistic research through sound, text scores, performance, improvisation, geomancy, field recordings, archives, soundwalks, and experimental narratives.
Sounds at 8pm!
THIS WEEK AT ELASTIC! COME HANG!
THURSDAY MARCH 13 | 8:30 PM
Improvised Music Series: Avreeayl Ra’s Dream Stuff, Levi Dayan
FRIDAY MARCH 14 | 8:00 PM
CLEAT Series: Veronica Anne Salinas, Hugo Flores Garcia, Ishmael Ali
SATURDAY MARCH 15 | 11:00 AM
$FREE$ but RSVP Required
Affirming Identity and Finding Voice: Spoken Word & Storytelling Workshop
SATURDAY MARCH 15 | 8:00 PM
Elastro: agua viva, Mauricio López F., Collectivo Polvos Rojos
Thank you all for coming out to events in the first couple cold months of 2025. There have been some incredibly special shows, with mind-bending art, crowded rooms, powerful community, and warm energy. So much more ahead. Check out these community captured clips to see what you may or may not have missed! Be sure to tag Elastic in your videos/photos from your visits and we’ll definitely share!
This Thursday’s Improvised Music Series features two unique improvisational duos. Norman W. Long and Bill Harris’ collaboration goes back to 2020, where they recorded the record Anemoi (Amalgam) over the pandemic with Ishmael Ali and Wills McKenna. Since then, they’ve collaborated on other ad-hoc projects, bills, and recording sessions.
Worthlis is the improvising duo of laptop musician Derek Worthington and bassist and analog electronics performer Ben Willis. Building on a collaborative relationship of over a decade, the instrumentation and approach has evolved from performance to performance, and typically involves Worthington processing Willis’s sounds through an instrument built in SuperCollider. The duo explores the textural and formal possibilities of its unique instrumentation, juxtaposing gradually evolving drone-like structures with abrupt, glitchy timbral shifts.
We’ll get started at 8:30pm. See you there!
THIS WEEK AT ELASTIC ARTS! JOIN US ☺️
THURSDAY MARCH 6 | 8:30 PM
Improvised Music Series: Long/Harris Duo, Worthlis
SUNDAY MARCH 9 | 4:00 PM
AfriClassical Futures: JoVia Armstrong + D-Composed Live Recording Session
*Please note this is a closed recording session, so no one arriving after 4pm will be admitted as there will be intermittent opportunities to exit until the session is complete. Thank you!
This Thursday the fantastic Erica Dawn Lyle returns from NYC followed by a trio led by the phenomenal Luke Polipnick Trio!
Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York City and Florida. The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Brontez Purcell, and many more.
The Luke Polipnick Trio featuring John Tate and Charles Rumback is a richly lyrical, swinging, deeply felt and communicative trio. They explore the post-Ornette Coleman legacy of harmolodics, and post-Paul Motian rubato music. This is an earnest and heartfelt trio that communicates complex emotions with directness and verve.
Erica Dawn Lyle - guitar
Luke Polipnick - guitar
John Tate - bass
Charles Rumback - drumset
THIS WEEK AT ELASTIC ARTS!
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26 | 8:00 PM
Pleiades Series: Paige Brown / Anaiet.Soul / Carmani Edwards Trio, Jordan Wright / Adina Rose Duo
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 | 8:30 PM
Improvised Music Series: Erica Dawn Lyle + Polipnick/Tate/Rumback
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28 | 8:30 PM
Sonic Celluloid ft. BCMC, CHEER-ACCIDENT, Lia Kohl
TONIGHT!!
At this week’s Improvised Music Series Sharon Udoh and Kyle Gregory Price will be an anomalous tornado spiraling in and out, up and down, only to put all the houses back down gently via the caring hands of experience, hope, community and musical salvation.
Percussionist Avreeayl Ra and trombonist Jeb Bishop will appear as the first duo configuration of Ra Bishop, a quartet (usually) anticipating a spring 2025 album release on the Amalgam label. We’ll get things started at 8:30pm. See you soon!
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