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Home » Experimental Sound Studio

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Marvin Tate, wearing a black hat, white shirt, and untied bowtie, poses with an empty birdcage in a black-and-white promo image for Laughing Song: A Walking Dream
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Artist and poet Marvin Tate tees up a busily multidisciplinary July

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Even in a city full of talented artists with their fingers in a half dozen projects at once, Marvin Tate stands out as a Renaissance man. The west-side native is […]

A diptych of composers Christen Taylor Holmes and Evan Williams. Holmes is a young Black woman wearing a black floral blouse and holding a French horn; Williams is a young Black man wearing a black suit and shirt and holding a conductor's baton.
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The Pride Bands Alliance celebrates 40 years with a symphonic-band blowout and two world premieres

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 24, 2022May 27, 2022

In October 1982, members of seven LGBTQ+ concert and marching bands from across the U.S. met in Chicago and formed the Lesbian and Gay Band Association. Though the LGBA changed […]

Rocio Zavala holds a piece of electronic music gear against a lavender and pink streaked background, her figure refracted along diagonal lines
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Sound artist Rocio Zavala debuts with an album of otherworldly drone

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

In May 2020, during the isolating depths of the first large-scale U.S. COVID-19 lockdown, Gossip Wolf caught a live online performance by Rocio Zavala as part of Experimental Sound Studio’s […]

A collage of some of the visuals from the Fred Anderson Collection, including an old show poster and a photo of the Velvet Lounge in its original location on S. Indiana
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Experimental Sound Studio unveils an archive devoted to beloved saxophonist Fred Anderson

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

On March 22, 2022—what would’ve been Fred Anderson’s 93rd birthday—Experimental Sound Studio and its Creative Audio Archive announced the acquisition of a collection devoted to the beloved Chicago saxophonist, venue […]

Tomeka Reid and Joe McPhee perform at Corbett vs. Dempsey last June.
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Best impromptu spiritual-jazz show to celebrate what turned out not to be the end of the pandemic

by Steve Krakow March 2, 2022March 15, 2022

When the pandemic shut down live music, Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey began presenting great online gigs via Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts series. I remember the excitement I felt […]

Damon Locks leads the Black Monument Ensemble during a recording session in the garden behind Experimental Sound Studio.
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Best use of cicadas on a jazz album

by Leor Galil March 2, 2022March 23, 2022

The dense, iridescent drone of an untold number of singing cicadas seeps into Now, the 2021 sophomore full-length by Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble. In August and September 2020, 11 […]

Malachi Ritscher holds a sign reading "Lead Us to Peace" during an April 2003 anti-war protest in the Loop.
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Malachi Ritscher gave Chicago’s fringe music his whole heart

by Kerry Cardoza January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

Listen to a raw and raucous Nirvana concert at Metro in 1990. Hear Slint performing a knockout cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” at Club Dreamerz. Check out a […]

Guitarist Daniel Wyche onstage at the Hideout
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Daniel Wyche makes guitar ambience you can feel at home in

by Noah Berlatsky November 4, 2021November 2, 2021

“A home is a place that’s full of people,” says Chicago guitarist, composer, and improviser Daniel Wyche. “I’ve been inspired by my grandparents’ hospitality. They had this need to welcome […]

A triptych of Douglas R. Ewart (playing a bamboo flute), Renée Baker, and Lou Mallozzi
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Wind player and polymath Douglas R. Ewart convenes a trio to honor AACM elders

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

In September, Experimental Sound Studio opened a retrospective exhibit by Chicago woodwind player and multidisciplinary artist Douglas R. Ewart in its Audible Gallery at 5925 N. Ravenswood. His paintings, collages, […]

Savanna Dickhut of Burr Oak
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Burr Oak debuts with a long-gestating album of dreamy folk-pop

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil August 3, 2021August 18, 2021

Burr Oak debuts with a long-gestating album of dreamy folk-pop, Experimental Sound Studio hosts an all-star fundraiser in its backyard, and more.

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Parlour Tapes shares the music of the future on a format from the past

by Salem Collo-Julin June 21, 2021August 18, 2021

Chicago label Parlour Tapes recently released four experimental solo cassettes from its four founders.

Choi Joonyong, shown here at Seoul venue Dotolim in 2018, will perform as part of Saturday's Tone Glow stream.
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Experimental-music newsletter Tone Glow hosts an international streaming showcase

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil June 1, 2021August 18, 2021

Experimental-music newsletter Tone Glow hosts an international streaming showcase, RJ Lake soundtracks a video game about an alien airport run by dogs, and more.

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Beau O’Reilly, cofounder of Maestro Subgum & the Whole and Curious Theatre Branch

by Kerry Reid May 13, 2021August 18, 2021

“I’ve always written more than people can keep up with. I write a lot of plays and I write a lot of lyrics. I just write all the time.”

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Strings that sing on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin April 28, 2021August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created by illustrator and musician Rei Alvarez, who lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble’s Now is an essential album of the moment

by Hannah Edgar April 16, 2021August 18, 2021

Flipping through television channels. Flicking through radio stations. They’re quotidian actions—until they’re not. When you’ve lived through a year like 2020, every frequency delivers the same nightmare from a different […]

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