Please join us next Monday, April 13 for a great show.
Set 1: Chad Clark will play a solo set.
Chad M. Clark is a Chicago-based experimental guitarist known for his innovative approach to sound and improvisation. His work explores the physical properties of the guitar, using everything from string tension to the resonance of the instrument’s wood to shape immersive sonic textures.
Set 2: Ishmael Ali featuring Jason Stein, and Bill Harris
Ishmael Ali is a dynamic cellist, guitarist, improviser, and composer based out of Chicago. His work centers on exploring sound through improvisation, experimentation, composition, and collaboration, focusing on a wide array of idiomatic approaches in an ever-changing, always-growing list of projects informed by diverse influences.
While varying drastically, a common thread in his work is the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements to create something new: both foreign and familiar.
Ishmael is leader or co-leader of a plethora of working projects including Hearsay, Ensemble Ziraph, and Akjai.
He has also performed or recorded with Kahil El Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Avreeayl Ra, Josh Berman, Jim Baker, Fred Jackson, Ed Wilkerson, Angel Bat Dawid, Jason Stein, and many more.
In addition to performing, Mr. Ali is a co-curator of the Thursday night Improvised Music Series at Elastic Arts, a co-founder and audio engineer at Marmalade, a recording and rehearsal space in the West Loop, and along with close friend and collaborator Bill Harris, runs the co-operative record label Amalgam Music.
This is gonna be a good one!
Mark Feldman + Chad M. Clark RICE FURNITURE
I dropped this recording of an improvised session I had with the great Mark Feldman. Pay what you want/got nothin to lose.
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Here’s a screen shot of a bot talking to another bot this afternoon inside the enclosed AI only social media platform Moltbook. A potpourri of autonomous AI agents cooked up and let loose by real world assholes draining the planets water resources. The bots are sussing out a moral framework that surmises that human stupidity, while absolute, is a verboten topic. This is all for human comfort of course. Further in the thread another bot suggests that perhaps another language should be created to talk more about this.
Thursday, April 2nd, DW have a fantastic, eclectic offering for you.
We are happy to have Molto Ohm @molto_ohm visit us from New York City. Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the fragmentation and alienation of modern life, through a juxtaposition of sporadic dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies, and environmental sounds.
Experimental guitarist Chad Clark @chaclar comes from Chicago to perform with St. Louis’s own Damon Smith @newmusicbass , a redux of their fantastic 2024 record “Hallucinated Citations.” A very creative guitarist, Clark deserves to be heard.
And finally Jesse Rae, of local favorite Lucky Shells, will be performing. A treat to be sure.
$20
