a•pe•riod•ic (46): Laura Cetilia Portrait/ and Emily Beisel

Sunday, June 5, 2022
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Consellation

A portrait concert of Laura Cetilia composer/cellist/improvisor.

Opening for the concert will be a solo improv set by Emily Beisel.

(rescheduled from Jan 16)

Cetilia will join the ensemble to present an evening of her electroacoustic works. Her music has been described as “unorthodox loveliness” by the Boston Globe and and her debut solo album was hailed as “alternately penetrating and atmospheric” in Sequenza 21. The Grove Dictionary of American Music describes her electroacoustic duo Mem1 as a “complex cybernetic entity” that “understands its music as a feedback loop between the past and present.”

(rescheduled from Jan 16)

a•pe•ri•od•ic (47): Everything was designed to make us sound.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022
7:30pm
Bienen School of Music

a•pe•ri•od•ic presents a concert in conjunction with “Everything was designed to make us sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement” a symposium organized by Ryan Dohoney. The concert will include works by Antoine Beuger, Yoko Ono, Laura Steenberge, inti figgis, and Nomi Epstein.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (45): Ear Taxi Festival

Sunday, October 3, 2021
1pm
Epiphany Center for the Arts

Reflecting on a year that has drastically changed how we interact with one another, a•pe•ri•od•ic presents a program of four experimental works exploring communication and language. Vocalist, improvisor and composer Carol Genetti joins a•pe•ri•od•ic to perform her Trace3 alongside works by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Nomi Epstein, and the late Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson. This event is part of Ear Taxi Festival 2021. All artists, titles, times, and venues are subject to change. For the latest updates, please visit eartaxifestival.com.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (43): Peter Ablinger Festival

Saturday, January 25, 2020
7:30pm
The Grey Center for Arts and Inquiry
Chicago

a•pe•ri•od•ic presents 3 Places Chicago, an hour-length work from the ever-evolving Places series by Peter Ablinger. This site specific piece explores the acoustic characteristics of three unique spaces. Prior to the concert, each space is acoustically “measured” in order for the composer to identify the space’s prominent frequencies so that he may prepare scores specific to those rooms. With each performance, a new score is made and titled with its location. For our performance, a•pe•ri•od•ic will use both acoustic and electronic instruments to sound the spaces. The ensemble will play the first space and then walk together with the audience to the next space, play the second space, walk together to the third, and so on. 

This performance is part of MUSIC’S OVER: Listening with Peter Ablinger, a 9-day residency threading a series of talks, composition seminars, and experimental discussions in between multiple performance events featuring world premieres and internationally renowned ensembles, who will render Ablinger’s work alone and alongside other artists who enjoy his influence. The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Chicago,  is thrilled to kick off the inaugural week of the new Gray Sound series with Peter Ablinger’s first visit to Chicago.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (42): Album Release Show

Sunday, December 15, 2019
8:30pm
Constellation

A concert celebrating the release of our second album, which consists of works written by or for the ensemble, including pieces by Michael Pisaro, Nomi Epstein, Billie Howard and Kenn Kumpf.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (41): 10th Season Retrospective

Friday, October 18, 2019
8pm
Elastic Arts
Chicago

Kicking off our 10th season of presenting experimental music to audiences in Chicago, a•pe•ri•od•ic performs some of our favorite repertoire from the 45 concerts we’ve played over the last decade.

PROGRAM
Catherine Lamb: line shadow
Laura Steenberge: Elevator Music
Carolyn Chen: Declaration
Taku Sugimoto: VII
Jürg Frey: Fragile Balance (written for a pe ri od ic)
Kunsu Shim: Buch

a•pe•ri•od•ic (40): The Music of Heather Frasch

Sunday, April 28, 2019
8:30 pm
Constellation
Chicago, IL

Joined by Berlin-based composer Heather Frasch, a•pe•ri•od•ic performs a concert of her works.

a•pe•ri•od•ic will give the US premiere of Heather Frasch's new work for kinetic objects and shadows "I touch what I cannot quite reach..." Frasch and Koen Nutters will then perform a collaborative compositional process with text, sounds and objects created by the duo.

Double bill with Netherlands-based composer/flutist Anna La Berge.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (39)

Thursday, March 21, 2019
7:30 pm
Fulton Street Collective
1821 W. Hubbard St. Suite 307, Chicago, IL

Ensemble members Eliza Bangert and Kenn Kumpf curate a program of works that moderate the relationships between performers - in space, timbre, agency, harmony density, and synchronization. Featuring works by Yvonne Wu, Charlie Sdraulig, Peter Ablinger, Morgan Evans-Weiler, and Christian Wolff.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (38): The Music of Catherine Lamb

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
8 pm
Logan Center for Performing Arts, Penthouse
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL

As part of Chicago’s Frequency Fest
a•pe•ri•od•ic performs a concert of the works of Berlin-based composer Catherine Lamb. This concert is partially supported by the Renaissance Society.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (37)

Thursday, January 17, 2019
7 pm
Narloch Piano Studio
Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic presents an evening of contemporary chamber music centered around the piano including works by Jane Dixon, Pauline Oliveros, Linda Catlin Smith, and Nomi Epstein.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (36)

Friday, November 30, 2018
8:30 pm
Elastic Arts
Chicago, IL

Curated by ensemble member Jeff Kimmel, this concert will include pieces by Linda Catlin Smith, Jürg Frey, Makiko Nishikaze, and a new work composed by Kimmel.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (35): 2018 season opener

Sunday, October 24, 2018
8:30 pm
Constellation
Chicago, IL

Program:
D. Edward Davis: Map of Broken Glass
Carolyn Chen: In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking
Matthew Shlomowitz: Letter Piece No.5: Northern Cities
Christine Burke: for 5+ Performers
Laura Cetilia: 15 past, home

a•pe•ri•od•ic (34): Make Music Chicago

Thursday, June 21, 2018
8:00pm
Buchanan Chapel, Fourth Presbyterian Church
Chicago, IL

World Premiere by Eliza Brown

a•pe•ri•od•ic (33): Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

Sunday, April 22, 2018
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Constellation
Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic joins London-based artist and scholar Emmanuelle Waeckerlé on her Chicago CD release of Ode (owed) to O on Edition Wandelweiser.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (32): Staebler/Shim

Sunday, April 15, 2018
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Constellation
Chicago, IL

Guest composers/performers Gerhard Staebler and Kunsu Shim join a•pe•ri•od•ic to perform a concert of their works.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (29): a•pe•ri•od•ic at University of Iowa

Friday, October 22, 2017,
3:00pm
Voxman Arts Building, University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Tim Parkinson: Time With People

a•pe•ri•od•ic (27): Make Music Chicago

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Preston Bradely Hall, Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, IL

Performing the music of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)

a•pe•ri•od•ic (26): Flak Series

Thursday, May 25, 2017
Intuit: Center for Outsider Art
Chicago, IL

Split bill with Ayako Kato

a•pe•ri•od•ic (25): HCL at Comfort Station

Friday, May 19, 2017
7:30pm
Comfort Station
Chicago, IL

Split bill

a•pe•ri•od•ic (24): Art Club of Chicago

Saturday, April 29, 2017 
12:15pm
Arts Club of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Tim Parkinson: Time With People, set designed by Parsons & Charlesworth

a•pe•ri•od•ic (23): First Saturdays MANA

Saturday, April 1 , 2017
2pm
High Concept Labs
Chicago, IL

Open rehearsal/score discussion

a•pe•ri•od•ic (22): a•pe•ri•od•ic at Oberlin

Friday, March 3, 2017 
10pm
Oberlin Modern Music Guild
Oberlin, OH

Tim Parkinson: Time With People

a•pe•ri•od•ic (21): Time With People

Sunday, February 26, 2017
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Constellation Chicago
Chicago, IL

Tim Parkinson: Time With People

a•pe•ri•od•ic (20): The Music of Jürg Frey

Friday, December 4, 2016
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Constellation Chicago
Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic and Dante Boon performing with special guests, Seth Parker Woods and Shanna Gutierrez.

Co-sponsored by the Swiss Benevelont Society of Chicago

a•pe•ri•od•ic (19): High Concept Labs Open House

Saturday, November 5, 2016
Mana Contemporary Art Center
Chicago, IL

Performing Tim Parkinson: Opus #2 and 7 from Time With People along with performances by other past/present sponsored artists

a•pe•ri•od•ic (18): Ear Taxi Festival

Sunday, October 9, 2016
5:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
Chicago, IL

Part of a 5-day city wide new music festival, a•pe•ri•od•ic presents Michael Pisaro's festhalten/loslassen, written for and premiered by a•pe•ri•od•ic in 2013.

Ear Taxi Festival spearheaded by Augusta Read Thomas

a•pe•ri•od•ic (17): Four (x4) Systems: Feldman within Brown

Tuesday, June 26, 2016
8:30pm
Frequency Series, Constellation Chicago
Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic presents a program investigating a unique relationship between works by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. Both composers continue to inspire the aesthetic and notational approaches we find so stimulating. Varying interpretations of Brown's Four Systems will be heard in between works by Feldman, including The O'Hara Songs, Last Pieces for Piano, and Bass Clarinet and Percussion.

preconcert lecture by Ryan Dohoney

This concert is produced with support from the Earle Brown Music Foundation

a•pe•ri•od•ic (16): Make Music Chicago

Thursday, June 21, 2016
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Maggie Daley Park, Cancer Survivors Garden
Chicago, IL

a•pe•ri•od•ic plays the beautiful layered swells of James Tenney's Swell Piece and a world premiere of Kenn Kumpf's Triadic Expansions (1), a day of music held each year on the summer solstice.

a•pe•ri•od•ic (15): Deborah Walker with a•pe•ri•od•ic

Friday, March 13, 2016,
8:00pm
Elastic Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL

Scottish-Italian, Paris-based cellist Deborah Walker of Dedalus Ensemble presents works for cello featuring different forms of experimentation involving body actions, field-recording, voice, and microtality. a•pe•ri•od•ic joins Walker to perform Laurence Crane's Come back to the old specimen cabinet John Vigani part 3 for cello and ensemble.

Works by:
Catherine Lamb,  the American, Berlin-based composer

Guseppe Chiara, the Italian Fluxus composer

Pascale Criton/Deborah Walker

Laurence Crane

a•pe•ri•od•ic (2)

Sunday, February 20, 2011
4:00pm
Elastic Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL

Works by Eva-Maria Houben, Alvin Lucier, James Tenney, Kunsu Shim, Liam Mooney

a•pe•ri•od•ic (1)

Sunday, November 21, 2010
7:30pm
Elastic Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL

Works by Antoine Beuger, John Lely, Laura Steenberge, Kunsu Shim, John Cage