We’re closing out the year with one last Elastro Series after a wonderful 12 months of boundary-pushing performances. Headlining this performance is a new trio with Chicago ex-pat Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Paul Giallorenzo on piano/synth, and Adam Shead on drums. Earlier in the night we’ll have the second Elastic appearance from a Emily Beisel / Ben Billington / Bill Harris trio, and solo sets from Erica Miller and Al Kolot. Music at 8pm!

Artist Bios

Al is a sound designer, composer, and musician based in Chicago. Their musical interests are varied, but are grounded in their studies of contemporary classical music, jazz, and electronic music. They’re happiest existing in the median, blending experimental piano techniques, electronics, with their joy of nature and dance music. Al’s project, 5th.sound is a sound collection journal of unorthodox audio and video experiments. Documenting everything from the drip of a kitchen faucet to remote MIDI instruments, each sound specimen features discreet sonic worlds that have been collected daily for over two years.

Originally from Long Island, NY, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and organizer 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.

Obsessed with making noises since infancy, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm is a musician / free improviser currently living in Kingston NY. His wide array of musical interests have resulted in studies of music in a variety of situations from the Juilliard School to the gutter. A former student of Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Feldman, Noah Creshevsky and Ardyth Alton his primary projects include Stirrup, Jakal, Ballister, The Lightbox Orchestra, Survival Unit III and many other more intermittently appearing constellations.

Adam Shead is an American multi-disciplinary artist of Armenian descent living in Chicago whose practice spans the realms of music, painting, photography, poetry, and community engagement. Throughout his work, Shead hopes to create a space for introspective presence in which the codification of experience is dismantled through the search for personal truth. Through this pursuit of truth Adam hopes to provide a reprieve while simultaneously challenging himself and his audience through active participation in invention, compassion, trust, and grace. Shead’s work is rooted in the exploration of themes such as class, nature, nurture, hierarchical structure, egalitarianism, and absurdism.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID – Tickets Available at the Door

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Tags: Adam Shead, Al Kolot, Beisel/Billington/Harris, Ben Billington, Bill Harris, Chicago, Elastic Arts, Elastro Series: Giallorenzo/Lonberg-Holm/Shead, Emily Beisel, Erica Miller, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Logan Square, Paul Giallorenzo