Cross Modulations Series: Perkins/Fleck Duo + Perkins/Acevedo/Fawcett Trio
2025-10-20 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Hideout Chicago1354 W Wabansia Ave Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60642

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This month, Resonance Arts celebrates the birthday of Resonance Arts co-founder/pianist/synthesist Michael Perkins, featured in two ensembles: a duo with fellow synthesist John Fleck and a trio with Ausberto Acevedo (bass) and Jaob Fawcet (drumset).

About the Artists:Since the late 90s pianist/composer Michael Perkins has been regularly performing and recording in the punk, electronic, and jazz scenes in and around Chicago. He’s worked as a session musician on many recordings for bands like Atari Star, Das Kapital, and The Lavellas as well recording with his own groups such as Sig Transit Gloria, Written in the Sand, Far Rad, and Mr 666. Michael spent 7 years as a sound engineer working at various live venues throughout the city, and spent 3 years as the resident recording engineer for Harold Arts Artist Residency in south Eastern Ohio. After leaving Harold Arts, Michael and his partner Heather Lynn started Templehead Gallery, first in Humboldt Park and then later in Pilsen, and for 5 years provided a venue for young artists/musicians who were looking for their first solo art show. Since then, Michael has been continuing to play jazz and blues on a regular basis in addition to the occasional free improvised electronic music set.

John Fleck started playing guitar when he was 12 and music has never left his life since then. He played guitar in rock bands and eventually got involved with synths and sequencers in the early days of MIDI. He studied music at Illinois State University, and later Electronic Composition at Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College where he was introduced to the Moog modular synthesizer. He now drums in a jazz band (The Jazzeros), and futzes around with his modular system nightly to keep out of trouble.

Ausberto Acevedo is an experimental bassist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed and recorded with a diverse array of musicians, in a variety of contexts. Acevedo’s work spans genres from classical to jazz to freely improvised to folk music. In addition to his performance schedule, he currently serves as the orchestra director at Evanston Township High School.

Jacob Little Cloud Fawcett (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe) is a Chicago based improvisational drummer/composer who blends aspects of jazz and traditional Native American music in order to create original compositions that accurately reflect Indigenous culture and experience. Former teachers include the great Frank Rosaly and legendary poly-rhythm guru Peter Magadini.

Cross Modulations Series: Sulky Driver + Nicole Alonso
2025-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | The Hideout
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Sulky Driver is a moniker of Donny Mahlmeister, an Oak Park based musician and designer with a focus on improvised music using guitar, lap steel and other electronic processing. His recent solo work on Trouble in Mind Records encompasses elements of minimalist soundscapes intersected with lilting melodicism. For this set, Donny will be playing pieces of solo work with the help of drummer Jason Batchko and bass player Glenn Rischke.Nicole Alonso is a Chicago based plasma donor and experimental sound artist. She also creates sampling based music under the moniker Mrs. Hands.

Cross Modulations Series: Derek Worthington's Disaster Taxa + Ratchet
2025-12-08 20:00 - 22:00
The Hideout

1354 W. Wabansia AveChicago, Illinois

Derek Worthington’s Disaster Taxa

Bio: Composer/improviser/electronic musician Derek Worthington recently relocated to Chicago from SE Michigan. His mission for the past several years has been incorporating polytempic structures into experimental jazz. His “Lossy Codecs” system for directed improvisation explores unique modes of information transfer, applying methods and aesthetics of electronic music to acoustic group improvisation. His focus on collaborative projects has led to the creation of numerous leaderless ensembles, including electroacoustic improvising duo Worthlis and free jazz/grunge/Americana quartet The Great Collapsing Hrung. Worthington has presented original work around the United States and internationally, in cities including New York, D.C., Rio de Janeiro, Zurich, and Berlin.

Program notes: Disaster Taxa is a polytempic suite of 21 miniatures for sextet, combining experimental jazz and free improvisation with multiple independent, simultaneous tempo streams (ala Conlon Nancarrow). Familiar concepts of pulse and harmony are placed into unexpected relationships with each other, creating music both evocative and alien. Live performance is enabled by networked software that serves as an animated ‘conductor’ for each part and keeps all the tempo relationships accurate. Disaster Taxa was composed by Derek Worthington, and is performed by the new sextet Pulse Width Modulation, featuring Matt Riggen, Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Luc Mosley, Julian Quall, Daniel Thatcher, and Adam Shead.

Ratchet

This Chicago-based ensemble brings together four innovative musicians—Jeff Chan (woodwinds), Michael Perkins (keyboards), Chad Clark (guitar), and Ausberto Acevedo (bass)—each contributing a distinct voice to a collective sound rooted in improvisation, experimentation, and genre-defying creativity. In addition to their collaboration as musicians, these four also are the founding members of Resonance Arts, a not for profit venture seeking to provide a forum for the great jazz and improvised, new music, and experimental electronic music being made in Chicago.

Jeff Chan is a saxophonist and composer whose work is deeply intertwined with the Asian American Creative Music Movement. Originally from California, he relocated to Chicago in 2002, where he became active in the city’s vibrant jazz and experimental scenes.

Michael Perkins, also known by his moniker Mr. 666, is a multifaceted musician and composer active in Chicago’s punk, electronic, and jazz scenes since the late 1990s. His solo project, Mr. 666, showcases his affinity for analog synthesizers and dark electronic textures.

Chad Clark is a Chicago-based guitarist whose approach to the instrument emphasizes its physical properties and sonic possibilities. His playing explores the textures and vibrations of the guitar, creating immersive soundscapes that challenge traditional notions of melody and rhythm.

Ausberto Acevedo is an experimental bassist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed and recorded with a diverse array of musicians, in a variety of contexts. Acevedo’s work spans genres from classical to jazz to freely improvised music. In addition to his performance, he currently serves as the orchestra director at Evanston Township High School.

Together, these four artists form a dynamic ensemble that blends their diverse backgrounds and influences into a cohesive and exploratory sound.

Resonance Arts Presents: Amos Egleston Quartet + Syzygia
2026-01-06 20:00 - 22:00 | The Checkout, 4116 N Clark St, Chicago, Illinois
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Resonance Arts proudly presents its 2026 opening event with its January installment of the Cross Modulations new music series at The CheckOut! Cross Modulations features new music presented by Chicago and national musicians. For this special event on January 6, Resonance Arts presents the Amos Egleston Quartet and Syzygia.

Amos Egleston Quartet

Amos Egleston – trumpet, Garrett Frees – saxophones, John Sutton – bass, and Andy Danstrom – drums

Amos Egleston is an improvising trumpeter and composer based in Chicago. He has a background in classical music and jazz and holds a masters degree in Performance from Northern Illinois University. Amos’ compositions are influenced primarily by the work of Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk and Don Cherry, as well as the improvised music tradition in Chicago. With his eponymous Quartet and various ensembles he performs regularly in Chicago and in Europe.

Syzygia

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger – winds and strings, Jamie Kempkers – cello, Jeff Chan – flute and clarinets, and Michael Perkins – piano

Syzygia performs improvised music and expands on the concepts stemming from pianist Michael Perkins and woodwind performer Jeff Chan’s development of the Improvised Sonata for Piano and Flute. This ensemble adds to the original duo of Perkins and Chan, with leading Chicago new/creative music artists Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Jamie Kempkers completing the quartet.

LeRoy Bach + Mai Sugimoto / Jason Stein + Paul Giallorenzo + Ausberto Acevedo + Tyler Damon
2026-01-19 20:00 - 22:00 | The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60642, United States
-LeRoy Fredrick Bach is an American musician, composer, and music producer. He has hosted musical gatherings, fostered musical collaborations, and led bands in Chicago since 1990. Bach is perhaps best known for his work as a multi-instrumentalist in the band Wilco from 1997 through 2004.

-Mai Sugimoto is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and active member of Chicago’s jazz and creative music scene. Born/Raised, her debut album (Asian Improv Records, 2018), explores her Japanese American cultural and musical binary, juxtaposing, among others, a jazz rendition of a Japanese children’s song alongside compositions inspired by the American jazz idiom. Her first solo album, monologue (Asian Improv Records, 2021) was heralded as “one of the year’s most memorable sonic statements with its ferocious physicality and melodic sensibility” (Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis). Sunlight Filtering Through Leaves (Asian Improv Records, 2024) is Sugimoto’s most recent album as a leader. “She breaks down phrases with the muscle and rigor of vintage Sonny Rollins spiked with a more feverish tone that clearly connects her to the ESP soul-streaked blowers like Charles Tyler,” declares Peter Margasak in his review for Nowhere Street. “[The album] conveys that singular joy of good improvised music, when it’s not about ripping solos but group unity. Naturally, I’m advising you all to pay close attention to Sugimoto from here on out.”

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-Jason Stein is among the mere handful of improvisers who play the bass clarinet exclusively. Stein leads the acclaimed trio Locksmith Isidore as well as his own quartet. He contributes to several of the leading bands on Chicago’s new-music scene and has brought a vital voice to the freest of free-jazz jams. Stein’s playing showcases an extraordinary expertise on the bass clarinet, which ranges from powerful post-bop lines to ear-grabbing wails in the altissimo range. Chicago writer Neil Tesser notes that “Stein’s playing has a rawboned swagger particular to Chicago jazz in all its manifestations – from the trad playing of Bud Freeman and Jimmy McPartland in the 20s, through the tenor titans of the 50s, through the adventurers who formed the AACM in the 60s, and right up to the city’s renowned modern cadre of new-music improvisers.” Stein moved to Chicago in 2005 and has since recorded for such labels as Leo, Delmark, Not Two, Atavistic, 482 Music, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits, and Northern Spy. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe as both a bandleader and sideman and has amassed a discography of over 40 albums.

-Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians in improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe.

Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde material. Writing in the online journal Point Of Departure, John Litweiler said, “His solos and aggressive duets are gems of after-Bop, after-Bley melody,” while AllAboutJazz.org lauded music that “smudges the lines between the tradition and the avant-garde.”

His work can be found on the Chicago-based Delmark Records and Austin-based Astral Spirits labels, as well as various other imprints including Leo Records (UK), Not Two Records (Poland), and 482 Music (NY).

Giallorenzo is the Artistic Director of the intermedia arts organization Homeroom and a co-founder and programmer of the music venue/art gallery Elastic Arts, producing hundreds of creative music concerts and art events in Chicago since 2001.

-Ausberto Acevedo is an award winning bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher performing regularly both live and in the studio. Ausberto has performed or recorded with a variety of musicians from around the world. Ausberto is a founding member of Resonance Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting unconventional performance in unlikely spaces throughout the greater Chicago area. Finally, Acevedo teaches orchestra at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, IL

-TYLER DAMON (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a drummer, improviser and educator. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to solo work, Tyler’s contemporary outfits include a longtime duo with saxophonist Dave Rempis, as well as a quartet alongside Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz and Joshua Abrams. He is found frequently in duet with tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, expanded in trio with bassist Andrew Scott Young. Where Were We, a triad completed by Erez Dessel on keys and Beth McDonald on tuba and electronics, was formed in 2023. Tyler is also often seen and heard accompanying guitarist Eli Winter in the company of Sam Wagster on pedal steel.Tyler has earned recognition previously for extended duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji. Their trio Kuzu, also featuring Dave Rempis, formed in 2017, leading All About Jazz to insist that their work “is for audacious listeners and it isn’t like anything else.” He has also been recognized for his past work with bassist Darin Gray as Duo Oninbo, the Mars Williams-led Exit Plan (with Brian Sandstrom & Steve Marquette), and Haley Fohr’s chameleonic Circuit Des Yeux, among many others.

Tyler has toured extensively in North America, Europe, Vietnam, & Colombia and is also regularly engaged with other artists, musicians and heads of various sorts across the American Midwest. His recorded output has been offered by myriad labels including Family Vineyard, Astral Spirits, Aerophonic, Trost, Magnetic South, Feeding Tube, Drag City, Matador, Three Lobed, Auris Apothecary, Sophomore Lounge, Amalgam, Longform Editions, Medium Sound, Long Gone Sound System, Let’s Pretend, Park 70 & his own Yoke (currently on a temporary hiatus).

Resonance Arts Presents: Snek Trio + Seldomly Trio
2026-02-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Hideout
Doors open at 8p, music at 8:30p$15 ADV (link pending, check back soon!) – $15 DOS plus fees21+Door staff will check ID.Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

This month, Resonance Arts presents the Snek Trio feauting Reid Kerris, Janna Lee and Erik Sowa and and Seldomly Trio featuring Jeb Bishop, Daniel Burke, Billie Howard, Thymme Jones, Katie Klocke, Julie Pomerleau and Susan Wolf.

About the Performers

Seldomly TrioThere was a time when we sought out music and sound to fill our every expanse. Now we crave silence and stillness, though divine chaos occasionally intervenes. This is improvisation with an ear toward the unknown, reaching out to connect with the ineffable. On this particular night we are Jeb Bishop, Daniel Burke, Billie Howard, Thymme Jones, Katie Klocke, Julie Pomerleau and Susan Wolf. File under post-rock/post-jazz/post-Everything/pre-Nothing. This trio is so seldom that it (more than) doubled.

Snek TrioIn 2018, vocalist Janna Lee declared the snake her spirit animal, and formed Snek Trio with Reid Karris and Erik Sowa. What started as free improvised jams evolved into loosely structured songs. Waltzing back and forth between melody and chaos, Janna’s unrestrained vocals duel with the dissonant yet ethereal textures of Reid Karris’s prepared guitar. Drummer Erik Sowa keeps them both in line with his danceable grooves, and is the element that makes their sound accessible but still experimental and eclectic. Chicago label Lurker Bias released two of their albums: Battement Développé in 2019 and Everything is Fine Until it Isn’t in 2023

Cross Modulations Series: Rempis/Dammann/Davis + Hunsinger/Aoki
2026-03-16 20:00 - 22:00
Marmalade

1117 W. LAKE ST. CHICAGO, IL 60607

Christopher Dammann

Christopher is a composer/bassist who lives in Chicago. He considers himself indebted to the generosity and knowledge of those he collaborates, studies, and performs with, including Jim Baker, Steve Hunt, Avreeayl Ra, Vincent Davis, Brian Sandstrom, Edward Wilkerson Jr, Mike Reed, Jon Irabagon, Mabel Kwan, James Davis, and Brian Gephart. Recent work includes his current sextet (Scott Clark, Jon Irabagon, Edward Wilkerson, Mabel Kwan, James Davis) debut recording with Out Of Your Head Records, the score for Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney’s award winning non-fiction montage feature, Make A Distinction, the Restroy release, sketches, for ears&eyes records and IKZ (Toby Summerfield, Kevin Davis, and John Niekrasz) release I saw the Cryptic Problem of my Generation Destroyed on Chicago label, Amalgam music. July 2026 will see the release of a new quintet (Jim Baker, Mike Reed, Jon Irabagon, James Davis) project on the Shifting Paradigm label. Christopher is a 2025 Illinois Arts Council Creative Catalyst Grant recipient and a 2025 3arts Make a Wave Awardee. In addition to his work as a performer, Christopher is also proud to be a teaching artist with The People’s Music School of Chicago, Chicago’s largest tuition free music school.

Vincent Davis

Vincent Davis, born in Chicago is an internationally acclaimed jazz percussionist, composer and teacher. The seed of music was planted in Davis early, growing up in a home filled with the influences of rock, jazz and gospel. In 1979 Davis left Chicago to attend the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music, where his love of jazz and skill at drumming further bloomed and flourished. It was here that Davis met his mentor Manty Ellis. Davis trained and studied with Ellis, primarily focusing on Jazz trap drumming. Since 1985, he has belonged to groups of Roscoe Mitchell as his Note Factory and its trio with Harrison Bankhead and Jaribu Shahid , with whom he also toured several times in Europe and Asia and performed at international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival . He is also on Mitchell’s album Songs in the Wind and This Dance is for Steve McCall as well as sound recordings of Jodie Christian and Scott Fields and founded the ensemble Laws of Motion . He also starred with Matthew Shipp , Arthur Blythe , David Murray , Joseph Jarman , Marilyn Crispell , Von Freeman , Hamid Drake , Corey Wilkes , Ed Wilkerson and many other musicians. In the field of jazz Davis participated in thirty recording sessions from 1988 to 2009.Dave Rempis

Saxophonist, improviser, and composer Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University, including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the creative music scene at the age of 22 when he was asked to join the now-legendary Chicago jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule that he still maintains to the present day. At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Engines, Ballister, Kuzu, Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker, and longstanding duos with drummers Frank Rosaly and Tim Daisy. Other collaborations have included work with Paul Lytton, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Tomeka Reid, Steve Swell, Elisabeth Harnik, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Nate Wooley, jaimie branch, Jeff Parker, Paal Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, Marshall Allen, and Joe McPhee. Rempis has recorded for a long list of labels including Okkadisk, 482 Music, Delmark, Atavistic, Clean Feed, Not Two, Astral Spirits, Dropa Disc, Bocian, Driff, Relay, Audiographic, and Multi-Kulti. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing work. Rempis has been named regularly since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on both alto and baritone saxophone, a category that he won in 2017. He’s received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jazz Road Touring sponsored by the Doris Duke and Andrew Mellon Foundations, the City of Chicago Individual Artist Program, and was the recipient of a Ragdale Fellowship from the Herb Alpert Foundation.  Rempis’ musical expression draws on a number of touchstones. While heavily improvisational in nature, his Greek ethnicity, studies in jazz and ethnomusicology, an appreciation for the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary composition, and a love for unforgivingly strident yelps, screeches, and squeals that can encompass the ever-evolving state of human depravity all inform his work.  Aside from his work as a musician and composer, Rempis has worked tirelessly as a presenter. From 2002-2023, he curated and produced a weekly series of improvised music at Chicago’s Elastic Arts Foundation, where he also served as Board President. He was a founding member of the presenters’ collective Umbrella Music, and one of the lead producers and curators of its annual festival of improvised music from 2006-2014. He was business manager of the world renowned Pitchfork Music Festival from 2005-2016. Since 2013 he has worked with the widely respected Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a community-based event on the South Side of Chicago that showcases Chicago talent to the world. His current title is Director of Operations and Finance.

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki have worked together for many years. Their latest duet project just received a 4 star review in All About Jazz and was described as “haunting, poetic, mesmerizing and steeped in mysticism.” Robbie Lynn led their highly acclaimed Trio project with Joseph Jarman and she was one of the original members of Tatsu’s Miyumi Project. Robbie Lynn and Tatsu have performed at the Chicago World Music Festival, at the Women Make up Half the Sky Festival, at the Asian American Jazz Festival with Joseph Jarman, and at the Chicago Jazz Festival with the Miyumi Project.Robbie Lynn Hunsinger

From recording the “Wooden Prince” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing bluegrass oboe on the John Hartford “Julia Belle” album and playing on the new Greta Van Fleet project, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is one of the more versatile musicians you will hear. Her chamber music esthetic polished from years of top notch classical performance, is apparent in her intensely intimate and sensitive approach to improvised music, composition, intermedia performance and interactive installation. Conservatory trained as an oboist, she is now a multi-instrumentalist improvising on Eastern and Western double reeds, single reeds, whistles and avant-fiddle. She led the highly regarded Aoki Hunsinger Jarman Trio album and is co-leader of a new duet album with Tatsu Aoki. She is also a regarded visual artist, puppeteer, creative technologist, presenter and educator in responsive media performance, interactive installation and intermedia composition. She is happy to be back in Chicago. You can learn more about her at robbielynnhunsinger.comTatsu Aoki

Tatsu Aoki is a leading advocate for the Asian American community, as well as a prolific composer, a performer of traditional and experimental music forms, a filmmaker, and an educator. He was born in 1958 into the Toyoakimoto artisan family, and performing by the age of four. In the early 1970s, Aoki was active in Tokyo’s underground arts movement with experimental arts and music. In 1977, Aoki left Tokyo and is now one of the most in-demand performers of bass, shamisen, and taiko, contributing to more than ninety recording projects and touring internationally over the last 35 years. He is noted for being the longest associated bassist for the late Chicago legend Fred Anderson. Aoki is a Founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, which celebrates its silver anniversary this year (2020). His sustained and intensified endeavors have resulted in many awards from multiple cultural and musical organizations for his cross-cultural collaborations. Of note, in 2007 he received the Milestone Award by the Asian American Institute. In 2010, he received the Chicago’s Cultural Achievement Award from the Japan America Society. And in 2014 he received the “Living in our Culture” Award from the Japanese American Service Committee. In addition to receiving the Illinois Arts Council Ethnic and Folk Arts Master Apprentice Grant for the XX years, he has received the Illinois Secretary of State Community Service Award by Asian American Advisory Council and also a Commendation for Promotion of Japanese Culture by the Foreign Ministry of Japan in 2017. tatsuaoki.com/

Resonance Arts Presents: Sarah Clausen
2026-04-18 13:00 - 15:00

Cross Modulations Series: Chad M. Clark + Ishmael Ali
2026-04-20 20:00 - 22:00
Chad M. Clark is a Chicago-based experimental guitarist known for his innovative approach to sound and improvisation. His work explores the physical properties of the guitar, using everything from string tension to the resonance of the instrument’s wood to shape immersive sonic textures.

Ishmael Ali is a dynamic cellist, guitarist, improviser, and composer based out of Chicago. His work centers on exploring sound through improvisation, experimentation, composition, and collaboration, focusing on a wide array of idiomatic approaches in an ever-changing, always-growing list of projects informed by diverse influences.

While varying drastically, a common thread in his work is the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements to create something new: both foreign and familiar.

Ishmael is leader or co-leader of a plethora of working projects including Hearsay, Ensemble Ziraph, and Akjai.

He has also performed or recorded with Kahil El Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Avreeayl Ra, Josh Berman, Jim Baker, Fred Jackson, Ed Wilkerson, Angel Bat Dawid, Jason Stein, and many more.

In addition to performing, Mr. Ali is a co-curator of the Thursday night Improvised Music Series at Elastic Arts, a co-founder and audio engineer at Marmalade, a recording and rehearsal space in the West Loop, and along with close friend and collaborator Bill Harris, runs the co-operative record label Amalgam Music.

Cross Modulations Series: Jake Leech/ Sam Clapp Duo + Beatrice Lynn Trio
2026-05-18 20:00 - 22:00
Hammy Wammy4633 N Clark St # 1, Chicago, IL 60640

Beatrice Lynn is a saxophonist and composer originally from Beloit, Wisconsin. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. As both a side-woman and a leader, they performed at venues in the Midwest such as the Jazz Gallery, Cafe Coda, Merriman’s Playhouse and the Whistler. Her work combines elements of jazz, classical, rock and electronic music. In addition to performing and composing, she has taught saxophone and flute at various public schools in the Chicago Suburbs and has been awarded multiple grants as a music researcher.

Beatrice Lynn

Jake Leech is a bassist, improviser, and score composer based in Chicago, IL.

Sam Clapp is a video producer and composer living in Chicago. Recent projects: scoring films with band Cue Shop, producing audio tours for the Art Institute of Chicago, and curating the multichannel CLEAT concert series at Elastic Arts.

Resonance Arts Presents: Allen Moore
2026-06-20 13:00 - 15:00
Allen Moore is a Black American interdisciplinary artist, Experimental sound artist, educator and curator born and raised in Village of Robbins IL. His sound work is a social allegory, conversing with symbols and institutions conducive to the constructs of race, social class and personal introspection. This is a free event happening in the HPAC library and will take place Saturday, June 20 from 1-3pm. We hope to see you all there!

Cross Modulations Series: Ben Schmidt-Swartz Trio + Ratchet
2026-06-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Bim Bom Studios, 5226 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
This month’s Cross Modulations Series lands at the amazing Bim Bom Studios for an unforgettable session.

Bim Bom Studios5226 w. belmont ave.chicago, il 60641

$15 at the door NOTAFLOF

Ben Schmidt-Swartz Trio

Ben Schmidt-Swartz

Ben is a saxophonist, composer and teacher who performs with a range of Chicago’s finest improvisors, including Vincent Davis, Jim Baker, Peter Maunu and Ed Wilkerson. He is also a bandleader who performs with his aptly named Ben Schmidt-Swartz group and Spiritus, Ben’s group who performs original experimental sacred music.

Allen Moore

Allen is a Black interdisciplinary visual artist, experimental turntablist, sound artist, educator, and youth mentor born and raised in the historic village of Robbins, IL. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from Chicago State University, a Master of Arts from Governors State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University. Through his work, Allen analyzes signifiers of Blackness through performative improvisation and experimentation. He is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black imagination. His recent body of work investigates the audio and visual elements of Black death and grief. Moore has exhibited and performed in spaces across the greater Midwest including Tritriangle, Heaven Gallery, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts Foundation, Threewalls, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Lula Cafe, Star Media Group, Union Street Gallery, The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, and many other spaces.

Bill Harris

Bill is a percussionist, improviser, and audio engineer in Chicago. He also operates and produces for Amalgam, a Chicago-based label and collective, and co-operates Chicago recording studio and performance space Marmalade. Bill is a prominent Chicago-based percussionist, improviser, audio engineer, and curator working in areas of improvisation, jazz, noise, rock, and bluegrass. Presented both nationally and internationally, Bill’s work focuses on a number of dedicated groups, ad hoc groups, and solo work, with over three decades of studying, practicing, and creating music.

Ratchet

Ausberto Acevedo

Ausberto is an experimental bassist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed and recorded with a diverse array of musicians, in a variety of contexts. Acevedo’s work spans genres from classical to jazz to freely improvised music. In addition to his performance, he currently serves as the orchestra director at Evanston Township High School.

Chad M Clark

Chad is a Chicago-based guitarist whose approach to the instrument emphasizes its physical properties and sonic possibilities. His playing explores the textures and vibrations of the guitar, creating immersive soundscapes that challenge traditional notions of melody and rhythm.

Mike Perkins

Since the late 90s pianist/composer Michael Perkins has been regularly performing and recording in the punk, electronic, and jazz scenes in and around Chicago. He’s worked as a session musician on many recordings for bands like Atari Star, Das Kapital, and The Lavellas as well recording with his own groups such as Sig Transit Gloria, Written in the Sand, Far Rad, and Mr 666.
