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Join us for a night of music celebrating the soft release of Skeletons in the Cloud, the latest recording project from Chicago drummer/percussionist/composer Tommy Carroll

Percussionist Jon Mueller visits forming a trio with Wisoconsin pianist Matt Blair and Chicago bassist Ro Lundberg.

Nathan Hanson and Steve Hirsh create spontaneously composed music that starts from an impulse informed by jazz.

We’re back for the second CLEAT Series event of the month, and we’re excited to welcome back legendary composer Carl Stone to the system. We’ll hear from series curator Stephan Moore, and a trio from Nicole Alonso.

Pleiades turned 5 this October!  For this special anniversary show on October 17, we’re excited to welcome back two artists who were part of Pleiades from the very beginning. Carol Genetti returns, having performed on the very first Pleiades, and Nadja Bruton, who played a solo set on the second-ever Pleiades, returns with a new group.  Jam session to follow!  Come celebrate five years of Pleiades with us and the artists who helped set the series in motion!

Please join us for the opening reception of Sweet Blood, the newest visual gallery exhibition from our curator Harlem West. In this body of work, materials found in quotidian rituals used for culturally Black queer aesthetic expression, act as vehicles for exaltation and re-imagining. Through the lens of the expansive Black ordinary, to have “sweet blood” is to be desired: thus being labeled as such plausibly justifies the violence endured. I have found that the ostensible ‘sweetness’ cultivated from existing while Black, derives from an insatiable desire to fly: or otherwise refusal to be earthbound. This devotion to flight and astral- traveling  has always attracted an evil eye and parasitic systems of blood-sucking.

An evening of experimental voice and performance at IMS! Aine Nakamura, visiting from the Bay Area, leads a deeply-embodied international collaboration with sound artists Jenny Graf (Copenhagen) and Bonnie Han Jones (Chicago). Janna Lee and Corey Lyons open with their dark, vast noise duo Obsequies.

Aine Nakamura will present her work Breath in this World. The work is for spoken words, sung voice and body movement. "As I see the moon in the night's darkness, which receives the light from the sun, the earth changing the light's shape with the earth’s shadow, I think about light and darkness, lines and shapes, wounds and love, and humans’ eyes."

Shake Shook Shaken is a dream of what a safe space could allow. A vision of a place for everybody to gather, look at each other, play and create in a non judgmental, trauma-informed way. It’s an invitation, a journey within and out, a surprise. Each workshop is unique. This month we’ll have Ava Brennan and Julie leading on the topic of RE-ORGAN-EYES.

A Chicago-filled night featuring a Gerrit Hatcher/Erez Dessel duo and the ever-energetic Larvavision

Join us for a night of dance music, with the return of Acideman on the decks! We’ll also hear from Lady D, Diz, Tyrel Williams, and Fortune. Music goes LATE, so get ready to dance.