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We have a very special Elastro series to close out 2025 w/ SMACT Ensemble, Yes Yes Nooky, and Giallorenzo/Jesalva/Damon!
This month’s Pleiades features pianist Laurie Lee Moses and clarinetist Sarah Craft, first brought together at our Improv Jam and now performing as a duo. They’re followed by Heavy Tiny (Lia Kohl and Nick Meryhew), a dense miniature world of field recordings, synths, walkie-talkies, and found objects that feels bigger inside than out.
Following the performances we’ll have our classics Pleiades Jam open to all femme/trans/non-binary performers. Bring your instrument, body, voice! Sign up at pleiades@elasticarts.org or when you arrive.
A string-focused night with drummer Weasel Walter assembling a quartet with 2 violins and double bass coupled with Akjai, a quartet with violin, cello, double bass, and vocals brought in by our very own Ishmael Ali.
It’s that time of year — DKV Trio is back for their annual two night run here at Elastic Arts! This fantastic pairing of journeymen Chicago improvisers found its roots in the mid-1990’s and has worked actively since that time. It has become an important tradition for this group to finish out the year for us here at Elastic, so we hope you can join us for one or both of these shows.
Ken Vandermark - reeds
Kent Kessler - bass
Hamid Drake - drums
It’s that time of year — DKV Trio is back for their annual two night run here at Elastic Arts! This fantastic pairing of journeymen Chicago improvisers found its roots in the mid-1990’s and has worked actively since that time. It has become an important tradition for this group to finish out the year for us here at Elastic, so we hope you can join us for one or both of these shows.
Ken Vandermark - reeds
Kent Kessler - bass
Hamid Drake - drums
Like an ecstatic game of telephone gone haywire, Noa Micaela Fields’ debut book E (Nightboat Books) practices mishearing as a glitchy hormonal transition of language. Join us for the book launch ritual of enjambment as embodiment as escape art: an evening of ethereal remixes, multimedia performances by collaborators, and euphoric dancing in the naughty clairvoyant loading zone.
Regina Martinez sets the tone during a selective listening hour, followed by live performances by Maya Nguyen, Ruby Que, Noa Micaela Fields, and Barbiefoot. Stick around for a dance party with DJs girly*** and relaxxX. As Vaginal Davis decrees, “E is for epic!”
For the last 24 years, Trio WAZ has performed together, making it one of the longest standing experimental music trios in Chicago. Trio WAZ is an eclectic experimental group made up of the time honored members: Edward Wilkerson Jr. - one of the great saxophone and clarinet players on the Chicago scene, Tatsu Aoki - a prolific artist, composer, musician, educator, and consummate bassist and Shamisen Lute player, and Michael Zerang - a percussionist focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms. Each brings their own unique arsenal of musical savvy mixing it up with their distinct dispositions to interplay and an incomparable synthesis of musical actuality. Come listen and burn off the extra carbs from celebrating National Fettuccine Alfredo Day, remember to bring your own leftover Chardonnay!"
