Now Is : October 2025

Drone Rodeo

1. Zander Raymond
2. Clem Leek

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Splice Series

1. Ryan Dohoney, Mabel Kwan, Jack Langdon, Peter Maunu

1. Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed
2. Jason Adasiewicz, Chris Corsano, Jon Irabagon, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg

1. Circuit des Yeux
2. Jenny Pulse
3. Chelsea Bridge, Skyler Rowe

A Night of Modular Synthesis XI

1. J Soliday
2. Andy Ortmann
3. Sarah Lutkenhaus
4. Caro Arroba
5. Melon Sprout
6. John Lovetron
7. Onur Żłobnicki

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Kitt Lyles' Real Talk

Refining The Third Ear – Night 3

1. Bill Dietz
2. Itsï Ramirez, Bret Schneider
3. Micah Schippa-Wildfong

Comfort Music

1. Matt Piet
2. Ritwik Banerji

1. Emily Kuhn Quintet with Meghan Stagl, Erik Skov, Kitt Lyles, Gustavo Cortiñas

1. Sons of Ra
2. Origin of Animal
3. Paul Abella's Questionable Decisions

AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 2 : Improvised Music Series x Dark Matter Series

1. Adam Zanolini's Heliacal Rising of Sothis
2. Avin Hannah Smith, Norman W Long
3. 9MAGICFOREVER1

1. Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed
2. Jason Adasiewicz, Chris Corsano, Jon Irabagon, Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Chicago Composers Consortium : Brad Jungwirth, Lawrence Axelrod, Amos Gillespie, Elizabeth Start, Amy Wurtz — music by Elizabeth Start, Laura Schwendinger, Kyong Mee Choi, Kathleen Ginther, Stephen Ferre, Lawrence Axelrod
2. Caroline Jesalva — music by Erez Dessel, Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva
3. Shannon McGinnis, Corrine Costello — music by Gabrielle Rosse Owens, Behzad Ranjbaran, Kyong Mee Choi, Jodi Goble
4. Constellation Men's Ensemble : Matthew Brennan, Conor Broaders, Matthew Cummings, Micah Dingler, James Judd, Ian Prichard, Ryan Townsend Strand, Pete Wesoloski — music by Gregory W Brown, Robert Maggio, Nicholas Cline, Rob Redei, Samara Rice, Alex Berko, Ephraim Champion

The Drum Also Sings, The Drum Also Sobs

1. Gustavo Cortiñas, Marcus Evans, Isaiah Spencer

1. Tom Skinner with Joshua Abrams, Ishmael Ali, Chelsea Carmichael, Mai Sugimoto

Comfort Music

1. Em Spel

1. Constellation Men's Ensemble - music by Robert Maggio, Nicholas Cline, Rob Redei, Alex Berko, Samara Rice, Ephraim Champion

Ear Taxi Festival and Bella Voce present Lost Objects

1. Bella Voce & The Bella Voce Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Lewis — music by Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang

1. Matthew Shipp Trio with Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker

1. Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed
2. Jim Baker, Michael Zerang, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg

The Drum Also Sings, The Drum Also Sobs

1. Gustavo Cortiñas, Marcus Evans, Isaiah Spencer

FAR OUT

1. Patri Satish Kumar, Ryan Jewell, Bill MacKay

1. A Performance with Angela Davis and Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble

Side Yard Sounds

1. Sam Robinson Trio with Jack Macklin, John Sutton

Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector

1. ACM — music by Terry Riley, Feliipe Perés Santiago, Garth Knox, Allistair Coleman

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Quintet Attacca : Jennifer Clippert, Erica Anderson, Barbara Drapcho, Collin Anderson, Jeremiah Frederick, with Chiemerie Obianom, Jordy Vargas, Katherine Peterson, Quinn Middleman, Karlos Piñero-Mercado — music by Damien Geter, John Dorhauer, Marybeth Kurnat, Alex Taylor, Shane Cook, Gillian Rae Perry, Carl Schimmel

1. Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed
2. Mark Feldman, Katinka Kleijn, Bill Harris, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg

1. Bitchin Bajas : Cooper Crain, Rob Frye, Daniel Quinlivan
2. Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Crossing Borders : Caroline Jesalva, Sarah Kim, Wilfred Farquharson, Elijah Hawkins
2. La Caccina : Sarah Fisk, Megan Fletcher, Carling FitzSimmons, Alana Grossman, Nyandeng Juag, Madeleine Woodworth, Stephanie Schoenhofer, Eden Hensel
3. Holocene : Dalia Chin, Isidora Nojkovic, Phoebe Wu, Emma Hospelhorn

Side Yard Sounds: A Noisy Fundraiser

1. Hedra Rowan
2. NuAm
3. Tina Lefauve
4. Melon Sprout
5. Nicole Alonso

AfriClassical Futures Presents Mike Monford

1. Mike Monford with Corey Wilkes, Louis Jones III, Josef Deas, Justin Dillard, Brendan Callies, Indira Edwards, Laina Martin, Tarajee Monford, Ytasha L Womack
2. part of AfroFuturist Weekend 10

1. Liza Lim, Ty Bouque, Kyle Flens, Sasha Ishov, Gramm Drennen, Ben Roidl-Ward, Will Yager — music by Liza Lim

1. Jeb Bishop, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg, Mike Reed
2. Ed Wilkerson, Avreeayl Ra, Peter Morel, Anthony Borg

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Sonic Speculations in the Documents of Postwar Japanese Art — public talk and listening session presented by Kaneko Tomotaro, Lou Mallozzi

1. Pandelis Karayorgis, Dave Rempis, Jakob Heinemann, Bill Harris

1. The Whistler Jam led by Matt Ulery, Quin Kirchner

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Alyssa Arrigo, Leila Bowie McClenahan — music by Shawn E Okpebholo, George Flynn, Stacy Garrop, Clara Frantzen, Tim Corpus
2. Black Moon Trio : Khelsey Zarraga, Parker Nelson, Jeremy Vigil — music by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, Marc Mellits, Eric Ewazen, TJ Cole

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

1. Ches Smith Clone Row, with Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman, Nick Dunston

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Michael Hudson-Casanova’s Mystery School

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Ty Bouque — music by Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Michael Finnissy, Evan Johnson, Timothy McCormack
2. Nick Zoulek — music by Nick Zoulek
3. Aśe : Kevin King II, Jeremiah Hunt, Vincent Davis — music by John Bitoy

1. James Davis's Beveled

Improvised Music Series x Amalgam Fest

1. Emily Beisel Solo
2. Carol Genetti, Peter Maunu
3. Paradise Complete : Bryn Davis, Nick Meryhew

1. Steve Marquette Solo
2. Steve Marquette, Lia Kohl

1. Sullivan Fortner & His Galactic Friends

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. KAIA String Quartet : Victoria Moreira, Naomi Culp, Susan Bengtson Price, Hope Shepherd DeCelle, with Laura Strickling, Michelle Areyzaga, Hayley Fox, Naomi Brigell, Grace Ryan — music by Amos Gillespie, Rosśa Crean, Lee Kesselman, Ty Bloomfield, Justin Weiss, Graham Meyer

CLEAT Series

1. The Anti Group
2. Matar
3. Illusion of Safety
4. post doom romance

Amalgam Fest

1. Whisker : Ben Billington, Andrew Scott Young, bbob drake
2. Ra Bishop : Jeb Bishop, Edward Wilkerson, Ishmael Ali, Avreeayl Ra
3. Ishmael Ali Group, with Brianna Tong, Corey Wilkes, Bill Harris, Jim Baker

1. Jon Irabagon Quartet with Russ Johnson, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall

1. Tikimen of Berlin : Adri Friebel, Kaes Holkeboer, Zachary Michalec, Alex Sherk
2. Dylan Ryan with James Elkington, Nate Lepine

1. Impro Jam, with House Band : Janna Lee, Chris Moore, Michael Hudson-Casanova, Luke Polipnick, Alexander Adams

1. Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. William Ferris Chorale with DePaul Ensemble 20+ — music by Christopher Tin, Ben Zucker, Augusta Read Thomas, Stacy Garrop, Ayanna Woods
2. Conversation with Christopher Tin

Amalgam Fest

1. Matt Piet Solo
2. Microplastique : Adam Shead, Molly Jones, Josh Harlow, Ben Zucker
3. JAKAL : Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Julian Kirshner

Elastro Series

1. Roger Clark Miller
2. Joy Guidry
3. Mountain Laurel

1. Jon Irabagon Quartet with Russ Johnson, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Fonema : Nathalie Colas, Dalia Chin, Emily Beisel, Kathryn Schulmeister, Sam Rowe, Yulia Block — music by Darlene Castro, Juan Campoverde, Michele Abondano, Carlos Z
2. Arcomusical : Gregory Beyer, Raychel Taylor, Ethan Martin, Matthew Schneider, Noel Streacker, Elena Ross, with Krissy Bergmark, Matt Ulery — traditional Afro-Cuban sacred music, and music by David M Gordon, Krissy Bergmark, Gregory Beyer, Matt Ulery
3. Stare at the Sun — music by Nicholas Cline, Ayanna Woods, Matthew Recio, Ted Hearne, Edie Hill, Joanne Metcalf, Alissa Voth, Alex Berko

1. Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Sam Scranton, Jeff Kimmel

1. David Boykin SEBAU, with Rhonda Gray, Mira Raven, Crai'Sean George, Jon-Edward Stokes, Steven Manns, Chris Courtney, Phil Fornett

AACM 60th Anniversary Series

1. Great Black Music Ensemble with directors Mwata Bowden, Edwin Daugherty, featuring Taalib-Din Ziyad, Edward House, Leon Q Allen, Donovan Mixon, Coco Elysses, Dushun Mosley, Jeff Harris, Edward Wilkerson, Fred Jackson, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Khari B, Dee Alexander, Ari Brown

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : Composer Showcase Featuring the Ravinia Steans Institute

1. Sabrina Langlois, Joanne Evans, Brent Funderburk — music by Blair Boyd, Andrei Skorobogatykh, Liza Sobel Crane, Eric Malmquist, Bradley Robin, Asher Sizemore, Paul Novak

1. Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang
2. Jacob Wick, Dave Rempis, Marc Riordan, Tim Daisy

1. Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Jesse Langen & Caroline Jesalva

1. Steve Slagg
2. Marian Runk
3. Contorno

1. Chris Brè, Tomeka Reid
2. STOMACHS : Mabel Kwan, Carol Genetti, Nick Meryhew, Bill Harris
3. Jacob Wick, Chris Corsano

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Mutzabaugh / Pinto / Deitemeyer Trio

Tangible Music

1. Adam Shead, Caroline Jesalva
2. Naydja Bruton, Scott Rubin

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Picosa
2. Flannau Duo + Quijote Duo

Splice Series

1. Fred Lonberg-Holm, Peter Maunu

1. Jason Adasiewicz, Chris Brè, Jason Roebke

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Dave Rempis, Bill Harris

Refining The Third Ear – Night 4

1. Kevin Harris
2. Itsï Ramirez, Bret Schneider
3. Henryk Golden

Improvised Music Series

1. Matt Riggen Quartet with Jacob Delgado, Owen Frankel, Adam Shead
2. Orchid : Vinny Golia, Dan Clucas, Seth Andrew Davis, Kevin Cheli

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : Composer Showcase

1. Lakeshore Rush : Erin Kendall Murphy, Laura McLaughlin, Pascal Innocenti, Christopher Ferrer, Elena Doubovitskaya, Ryan Alexander, Angela De Venuto, Christina Bernardoni, Emily Venturella, Julian Otis — music by Natasha Bogojevic, Ephraim Champion, Ethan Dymit, Xavier Beteta, Angel Bat Dawid

1. 21 Million Kites Ensemble : Lee Johnson, Paolo Maseri
2. Milo Christie, Erez Dessel
3. Gerrit Hatcher, Eli Schmitt, Zander Raymond

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Chicago Fringe Opera — music by Kate Soper, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Jasmine Barnes

1. Calculated Discomfort : Tommy Carroll

1. OLEA Ensemble — music by Annie McAllister, Jacy Pedersen, Jaime García-Añoveros, Shane Scott Cook, Jennifer Jolley

1. Envenomist
2. Brutal Shift
3. Mark Solotroff
4. Mortido

1. Tromblau & Friends

Cosmic Echoes: Sun Ra and The Bronzeville Forum

1. MOTHABOARD featuring Angel Bat Dawid, Sophiyah E

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Tiana Sorenson, Leah Dexter, Cameo Humes, Khary Laurent, Apollo Chorus, Marta Aznavoorian, with Chicago Philharmonic — music by Stacy Garrop, Damien Geter

1. Marcia Bassett, Taralie Peterson, Chris Corsano
2. Kirin McElwain
3. Anna Johnson, Lula Asplund

"Became These" Record release

1. Lou Mallozzi, Bonnie Han Jones
2. Lou Mallozzi, Michael Zerang, Hal Rammel

1. Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis

Elastro Series

1. Cole Pulice, Angel Bat Dawid, Bill Harris

Frequency Series Presents

1. Ensemble Dal Niente — music by Helmut Lachenmann, Dal Niente, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Ana Lara, Anthony Cheung, George Lewis

1. Surge Quartet : Chris Bré, Keefe Jackson, gabby fluke-mogul, Fred Lonberg-Holm

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : Stories at the Blackstone

1. Michael Hall — music by Paul Coletti, Alexandra Gardner, Jonathan Hannau, Adrian Gordon, Michael Hall, Narong Prangcharoen, Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, Nico Muhly

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Cross Modulations

1. Michael Perkins, Ausberto Acevedo, Jacob Little Cloud Fawcett
2. Michael Perkins, John Fleck

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : She Rises

1. Rising : Mary Kothman, Lisa A Williams, Nora Frisk, Elizabeth J Start — music by Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth J Start, Elizabeth J Start, Augusta Read Thomas, Florence Price

Ear Taxi Festival 2025

1. Fulcrum Point : Stephen Burns, with Rika Seko, Amanda Beaune, James Kang, Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, Paula Kosower, Kuang Hao Huang — music by Gustavo Leone, Carolina Heredia, Tomas Gueglio

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : The Magnificent Misdeeds

1. Amy Gadd, Justin Pasquil, Eden Hensel, Marissa Kerbel — music by John Harbison, Amy Gadd, Justin Pasquil, Paul Scherer

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Javier Red Quartet with Dakarai Barclay, Jeff Wheaton, Daniel Gayden

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

2x4

1. Emily Rach Beisel, Bill Harris
2. LeRoy Bach, Matthew Lux
3. Jamie Kempkers, Tatsu Aoki
4. Tyler Damon, Jacob Fawcett

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Jimmy Farace Trio with Clark Sommers, Dana Hall

Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell

1. Opera by Lula Asplund

Improvised Music Series

1. Luca Cimarusti
2. Mark Nagy's Station 4, with Steve Doyle, Neil Jendon, Emily Rach Beisel, special guests Kao Ra Zen, Tuli Bera, Heather Zimny, Karen Fisher-Doyle, Mindy Meyers

1. Damon Locks's Black Monument Ensemble

Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell

1. Opera by Lula Asplund

1. Alarm Will Sound — music by Hans Thomalla

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : Vox femina - The Woman's Voice

1. 6Degrees Composers — music by Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kyong Mee Choi, Ester "Hana" Hanviriyapunt, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Patricia Morehead

1. Sarah Clausen

Ear Taxi Festival 2025 : Myths and Accidents

1. Ryan De Ryke, Daniel Schlosberg — music by Doug Lofstrom

1. The Bad Plus with Matt Gold

Pictures At A Surreal Exhibition

1. Projected Score by Reneé Baker, featuring Mwata Bowden and Great Black Music Ensemble
2. Sessions at 1PM, 2PM, 3PM

1. Cleek Schrey

1. Charles Rumback, Jim Baker, John Tate, special guest Mark Feldman

Side Yard Sounds: Scorpio Celebration

1. Norman W Long, Sharkey Zalek, with special guests Whitewolf Sonic Princess, Sharon Udoh

1. Lisa Cameron, Emily Rach Beisel
2. Allen Moore
3. Jason Roebke

AIRMW Arts Initiatives Presents

1. Bass Dreams minus B : Tatsu Aoki, Adam Shead, Rami Atassi, Terry Tanaka

1. The Bad Plus with Gabriel Kahane

1. Ben MacDonald, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor

1. The Bad Plus

Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell

1. Opera by Lula Asplund

The Middle

1. OLEA Ensemble : Marissa Kerbel, Alayne Honaker, Kate Kilgus
2. Janelle Finton’s joygarden, with Caroline Jesalva, Alvin Santner
3. OLEA Ensemble and Janelle Finton’s joygarden

1. Jim Baker, Tyler Wagner, Scott Dean Taylor
2. Fred Jackson, Paul Giallorenzo, Bill Harris

Transiting the Celestial

1. Najee-Zaid with Alejandro Salazar, Paige Brown, Eva Supreme, Anaiet Soul, Carmani Edwards

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. International Anthem Presents 11 of 11

Chicago Bagatelles Project

1. Phil Pierick, Kristina Bachrach, Sasha Ishov, Kyle Flens

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Lucky Cloud, Augustus Martini

The Visible Hand

1. Alex Wing, David Boykin, Preyas Roy
2. Open free improvisation jam

1. Tony Rolando
2. Michael Vallera
3. Brian Case

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Aidan Buck Quartet

Improvised Music Series

1. Atlas Maior Duo : Josh Peters, Joshua Thomson
2. All The Wizards Were Here : Chandler Browne, Tommy Carroll, Evea, Lyn Rye, Ben Zucker

1. DMBQ
2. Yr Knives

"Memorias" CD release

1. Juan Pastor's Chinchano, with Stu Mindeman, Matt Ulery, Dustin Laurenzi, special guest Emy Castro