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Catalytic Sound Festival – Chicago

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December 5, 6 & 7
Hungry Brain, Constellation, Corbett v Dempsey
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618

Co-curated by Tim Daisy, Lily Finnegan, Ben Hall, Damon Locks, Tomeka Reid & Ken Vandermark.

Friday, December 5
Hungry Brain
Premier of Sharon Udoh’s “Potluck” sextet (with Angelo Hart, Fred Jackson Jr., Mabel Kwan, Avreeayl Ra & Ken Vandermark)
Bonnie Han Jones, Mabel Kwan & Michael Zerang
Ikue Mori & Ken Vandermark
Dietrichs (Don & Camille Dietrich)

Saturday (Afternoon), December 6
Constellation Chicago
Lane Tech Workshop Ensemble with Ken Vandermark
Ikue Mori
Mike Khoury’s “Spite of Darkness” (with Ali Allen Colding, Indira Edwards & Ben Hall)


Saturday (Evening), December 6
Hungry Brain
Ikue Mori, Tim Daisy & Jason Adasiewicz
Ava Mendoza
Fred Moten, Bonnie Han Jones & Ben Hall

Sunday, December 7
Hungry Brain
“Company-style” ad hoc groups:
with Ali Allen Colding, Indira Edwards, Mike Khoury, Ava Mendoza, Kim Alpert, Dorothy Carlos, Garrett Frees, Damon Locks, Beth McDonald, Dave Rempis & Ed Wilkerson Jr.
TICKETS

SIDE SHOW
Corbett vs. Depsey
2156 West Fulton St, Chicago, IL
Sunday, 3 pm, December 7 — FREE
Ellington Skelletons (Ben Hall & Ken Vandermark)

The Catalytic Sound Festival is a hub for experimental and improvised music, organized by a musician-owned cooperative that emphasizes collaboration and community. Each annual edition spans multiple cities across the US and Europe, celebrating cutting-edge sound through performances, talks and workshops.

https://festival.catalyticsound.com/edition/catalytic-sound-festival-2025/

2nd Spaceout Intl Ambisonics Festival

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2nd Spaceout International Ambisonics Festival 2025
October 16 – 17, 2025
Chip Davis Technology Studio, located on the lower floor of the Earl V. Moore Building
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

I’ll be presenting my work a place where many people gather (2025) 5:31
Inspired by the performance tradition of Korean pansori and the sonic ritual practices of female Korean shamans (mudang), this polyvocal, multilayered electronic music piece considers the possibility of sonic interventions into and transformations of our collective, shared, and material spaces – both real and imagined. Source sounds from pansori master vocalist, Ahn Sook-Sun.

CONCERT 2, October 17, 2025
12:30pm – 1:35pm
Registration is recommended at this link to reserve your seat: myumi.ch/rA21Z

Welcome to the 2nd Spaceout International Ambisonics Festival 2025! Join us at the Chip Davis Technology Studio to celebrate and experience Ambisonics – an immersive audio technology that surrounds you with sound in 3D space. The festival will feature peer-reviewed Ambisonic compositions and performances from all around the world. Spaceout will be held in the Chip Davis Technology Studio, located on the lower floor of the Earl V. Moore Building in Ann Arbor, MI. The event will span three concerts on October 16 at 7:00 pm, October 17 at 12:30 pm, and October 17 at 4:30 pm. All three events are open to the public and free to attend with limited seating.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (56) portrait Concert

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a•pe•ri•od•ic (56): Bonnie Han Jones
Sunday, March 2, 2025
8:30 PM 10:30 PM
Constellation Chicago
3111 North Western Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60618
https://www.aperiodicchicago.com/calendar/2025/3/2/aperiodic-56-bonnie-han-jones

a•pe•ri•od•ic is thrilled to welcome BONNIE HAN JONES to Chicago for a residency and portrait concert to help celebrate her upcoming move to the midwest. Han Jones has prepared two scores Memory Work and Echoic Memory for a•pe•ri•od•ic that explore themes of sonic memory, archives, improvisation, and collective transformation. Han Jones will open the evening with an electroacoustic improvisation.

AS220 Solo Set

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Matthew Ryals + Stella Silbert + Nat Baldwin, Bonnie Han Jones, Marie Carroll + Caleb Walker

Sunday, June 9, 2024
8:00 PM
AS220 Black Box
95 Empire StreetProvidence, RI, 02903
Tickets, 12$ advance, 15$ General
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/e5f7e613-8984-4d19-8d4d-0c0121f9ce02

Join us at the AS220 Black Box on June 9th for an evening of free music organized by Brooklyn-based synthesist, improviser, and curator, Matthew Ryals. The line up features an array of improvisers working across the northeast.

Trio:
Matthew Ryals (modular synthesizer)
Stella Silbert (turntables)
Nat Baldwin (double bass)

Duo:
Marie Carroll (koto)
Caleb Walker (trumpet, electronics)

Solo:
Bonnie Han Jones (electronics)

Artist Links:

Matthew Ryals – website, instagram
Stella Silbert – website, instagram
Nat Baldwin – website, instagram
Marie Carroll – website, instagram
Caleb Walker – website, instagram
Bonnie Han Jones – website, instagram