Join us as we kick off our 22-23 Season at Curiosity V. Curiosity is our yearly series at Constellation Chicago where we premiere and perform new music from composers with strong ties to our hometown of Chicago. Come get curious with us in person or via the livestream. Facebook event page here.

Premieres by Lisa Atkinson, Alex Mincek & AJ Santillan. Existing works by Maria Kaoutzani & Elliott Lupp.

Rescheduled from February

The CHIME Studio presents CHIMEFest 2022, a meeting of electronics performers and improvisers from around the country. The symposium will include a number of world premiere performances, sound installations, and more. The full schedule of events will be announced soon.

For her Roulette residency, Cassie Wieland presents a collection of new works including a work in progress for chamber ensemble Bearthoven, the world premiere of Hometown with Isabelle O’Connell and Adam Holmes, and the NYC premiere of her new project Vines performing Birthday Party with ~Nois.

The Kinds of Kings / ~Nois collaboration grew from a friendship between Gemma Peacocke and ~Nois that formed at the Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab in 2018. After a year of planning, the premiere of the first iteration of the Kinds of Kings and ~Nois program took place at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York, with performances following in Chicago and Los Angeles during the Winter of 2020. As the musical world went on hiatus during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the collaboration between ~Nois and Kinds of Kings did not. Instead it has continued to morph into the final product that we have today: Kinds of ~Nois.

Due to COVID-19, this show has been cancelled. There will STILL be a performance at Galvin Hall of other works by Luis at 7:30

Luis Fernando Amaya’s piece that aims to challenge the very idea of "personhood" and to whom it is granted in many societies. Scored for twenty-four voices, saxophone quartet, percussion, multi-channel electronics, and two soloists, Árbol de Bocas (“Tree of Mouths”) is a one-hour-long opera that depicts a year in the life of its only character: a tree.

Join us for the first full length performance of the album “Kinds of ~Nois” with a new premiere by Maria Kaoutzani at Bang on a Can’s first Long Play Festival in NYC.

Dwalm (2018) Gemma Peacocke

Shore to Shore (2019) Maria Kaoutzani

BIG Talk (2016) Shelley Washington

Count Me In (2022) Maria Kaoutzani

Hazel (2022) Gemma Peacocke

Brooklyn-based composer/vocalist Cassie Wieland joins Chicago’s own ~Nois for “Birthday Party”, a collection of songs that serve as a doleful celebration of growing up. Praised by The New York Times as “sweetly shimmering,” Wieland masterfully experiments with timbre and texture by exploring intimate and fragile sounds to achieve the “hand-made” sound she is often looking for: imperfect, but intentional.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/nick-zoulek-and-nois-feat-chris-porterfield-cassie-wieland-tickets-243079065027