Gordon Fung - multimedia
Sam Anthem - multimedia
Lorenzo Osterheim - multimedia
Omnia Sol - multimedia
Liv Mershon - electronics/voice/flute
Luc Mosley - electronics/sax
Rin Peisert - voice/movement/objects
RA Washington - electronics/voice
Keisha Janae - Create Care Artistic Facilitator
DJ Mar - Music
Izzy Brown - Movement Therapist
Gloria Parker - Music Therapist
Kim Alpert - video/voice
Lia Kohl - cello
Ben Hall - percussion
A live music + performance series, every Thursday in April at Comfort Station
Pascal Niggenkemper - Double Bass
Seb El Zin - Ney, Saz, Guitar, Vocals
Irene Hsiao - movement
Cristal Sabbagh - movement
presented in conjunction with the Bridge
Homeroom presents
a live music + performance series, every Thursday in April at Comfort Station.
Thursday April 20th 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
posters by Dmitry Samarov
Keefe Jackson - reeds
Jeb Bishop - trombone
Aram Shelton - reeds
Dmitry Samarov - reading
Keefe Jackson, saxophonist/clarinetist/improvisor/composer, arrived in Chicago in 2001 from his native Fayettevile, Arkansas. He performs regularly in the U.S. and in Europe with many musicians. Bill Meyer (Chicago Reader): "...the impeccable logic of his lines and the richness of his tone leave you wanting more... Jackson's high-register squiggles and coarsely voiced, rippling runs push the limits of the tenor's tonal envelope." Frank van Herk, de Volkskrant (Amsterdam): "[Jackson] has an old-fashioned, warm-woolly sound, and a feeling for melodic lines that take their time in unfolding." He has been mentioned in the DownBeat Critics Poll in the Rising Star Tenor Saxophone category. Recordings are available on Delmark and Clean Feed Records. keefejackson.com
Jeb Bishop was born in Raleigh, North Carolina during the Cuban missile crisis. He began playing the trombone at the age of 10, under the tutelage of Cora Grasser. Other influential teachers during junior high and high school included Jeanne Nelson, Eric Carlson, Richard Fecteau, Greg Cox, and James Cozart. In late 1995, Bishop joined the Vandermark 5 as one of its founding members, and remained with the band through the end of 2004. During this period he also became associated with many other groups, including the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, School Days, Ken Vandermark's Territory Band, and his own Jeb Bishop Trio, and became a very frequent participant in ad hoc and free-improvised concerts in Chicago. Bishop has made dozens of recordings with many different groups, has toured North America and Europe many times, and maintains a busy performing schedule. jebbishop.com
Aram Shelton is an improviser and composer who performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics. He plays with a distinct, harmonically rich sound and develops musical thoughts through constant motion, tonal shifts and complex sounds alongside clear melodic and rhythmic constructs. His vocabulary utilizes the range of extended techniques including multiphonics and harmonics, circular breathing, wind sounds and an exploration of the outer ranges of the instrument. He focuses on creative music grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation. He's been a member of the creative music communities in Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Copenhagen and Budapest. aramshelton.com
Dmitry Samarov paints and writes in Chicago, Illinois. dmitrysamarov.com
Homeroom presents
a live music + performance series, every Thursday in April at Comfort Station.
Thursday April 13th 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Juliana Castro Duperly - sound and video
Jasmine Mendoza - movement
Juliana Castro Duperly is a video artist and live video performer who understands video and written text as agents of construction and de-construction of meaning. The plasticity of both media allows her to create aesthetics that veil and unveil a poetry that, like video in real time, resides in the execution. Constantly collaborating with sound artists and musicians, her work has been shown in Sónar Bogotá, Mutek.co, Festival Domo Lleno, and most recently in Ars Electronica.
Jasmine Lupe Mendoza is a performance artist, choreographer, and activist based in Chicago. Their wide-ranging practice is informed by improvisation, sound, installation, and video. Jasmine’s work has been presented in Chicago, New Mexico, and New Orleans, and they have held residences at the Banff Centre, Links Hall, The Arts Club of Chicago, Acre, and MoMAZoZo.
a live music + performance series, every Thursday in April at Comfort Station.
$ suggested donation
Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
7pm doors, 7:30pm show
Featuring Kyriakos Apostolidis, Gordon Fung, J Jiang, Che Pai, Mallory Yanhan Qiu, and Yezhou Zheng
Cho-Cho-Cho-Choo Station is a site-specific performance responding to the history of comfort station as the transition station between train and bus at the edge of the city of Chicago and now changed to the form of an art venue which naturally bears the culture and history throughout time.
This 90-minute piece takes the audience on a journey to different connections with ghosts in different times and spaces. J Jiang’s captivating reading text guides the audience through the experience. Mallory Yanhan Qiu, Che Pai, and Gordon Fung use movement, sound, live projection, and objects to immerse the audience in a world of imagination and wonder. The journey reaches its climax on the outdoor lawn, where Kyriakos Apostolidis and Yezhou Zheng create a mesmerizing visual experience through live video projection and physical movement.
Mallory Yanhan Qiu
Mallory Yanhan Qiu(b. 2000, Chongqing, China) is a Chicago-based artist and curator who deeply passionate about live sound performance, sonic studies, body movement, poetry, and digital visuals. She draws inspiration from physical sensations and biological movements, aiming to flip the familiar and discover memory-laden places that coexist both near and far. Qiu holds a BFA in Sound and Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has performed at Compound Yellow, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Elastic Arts, Mana Contemporary, {} () {} ∆ ‡ | () {} Nonation Art Lab, Research House for Asian Art, SAIC, and Tritriangle.
WEBSITE: https://www.mallory-qiu.com
IG: @qiumallory
J Jiang
J Jiang (b. 2000, Shanghai, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago and Shanghai. She is pursuing BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jiang uses art to live through boringness in a singular reality. She degrades objects to their literal contents by visible, invisible, and locations, then reassembles them to construct an alternative and possible reality which is legitimate in materiality but out of the shared experience. Imagining the uncontrollable subject, boringness is replaced by an awareness of the existential crisis and the agency to misbehave.
IG: @theashesofmymind
Che Pai
Che Pai (b. 1988; Taipei, Taiwan) is a multidisciplinary artist whose inspiration comes from studies in literature, slow cinema, and the physical theatre of Tai Chi. Through these practices, his awareness is fully opened; internal sensations of the body hence flow like water. The photographs, movements, and moving images serve as mediums through which the inner state resonates with happenstances.
Che holds an MA degree in Literature from National Taiwan University, and since then he embraces collaboration with artists. He had been working with award-winning director Hsin Yin Sung as a researcher, organizing shows for Ta-Chao Production as the leading performer, and programming educational events at the National Center of Photography and Images in Taiwan.
WEBSITE: https://paichejeff.wixsite.com/chepai/single-project
IG: @chechepai
Gordon Fung
Gordon Fung (b. 1988, San Francisco) is a transdisciplinary artist who primarily works with experimental film/video, noise music, multi-/new media performances, DIY electronics, digital art, programming, and installations. His works highlight unconventional executions like noises, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confronts the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view through a more philosophical, if not esoteric, investigation.
To expand the possibilities of artistic idioms, he intertwines both analog and digital technologies—also to signify the co-existence of mundane and spiritual worlds. By overloading software and hardware, he collapses the two worlds to expand the audience’s perception of reality. As a break-maker, he employs circuit-bending to regain consumers’ sense of agency through artistic means. His involvement in media archeology strives to unearth unexplored potentials of obsolete equipment and to revive them to artistic life.
Informed by his multivalent aesthetics, he forms the collective //sense at SAIC to showcase time-based artists’ works through performances, workshops, and seminars. By curating experimental performances, he fosters a collaborative common ground for sound/video/performance/electronic artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy.
As a runaway composer in contemporary music, his compositions have been performed in Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the USA.
WEBSITE: https://gordondfung.wordpress.com/
IG: @gordon.d.fung
Yezhou Zheng
WEBSITE: https://vimeo.com/user84890550
IG: @zhengyezhou_
Kyriakos Apostolidis
Kyriakos Apostolidis (b.1991) is a performance artist from Greece. Exploring the term Morphoplastic, Apostolidis's art research deals with the concept of living sculpture in performance art. How the body is able to render symbolic forms of human existence through its movement plasticity, by activating the expressive potentials of the so-called “body intelligence”.
Apostolidis graduated from the School of Visual and Applied Arts at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (2017), and also studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Granada (2014). Currently, he is pursuing his MFA in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with the support of Alexis Minotis's endowment scholarship "In Memory of Katina Paxinos", administered by the National Bank Cultural Foundation (MIET).
IG: @kyriakos_apostolidis
Homeroom and Comfort Station present
Comfort Music +
Thursday April 28th, 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
in conjunction with the Bridge:
Homeroom and Comfort Station present
Comfort Music +
Thursday April 21st, 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
Homeroom and Comfort Station present
Comfort Music +
Thursday April 14th, 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
Homeroom and Comfort Station present
Comfort Music +
Thursday April 7th, 7pm doors, 7:30pm show
$ suggested donation
Comfort Music + returns with live sets filmed at Comfort Station and streamed through Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts.
Irene Hsiao makes dances with visual art in museums and public spaces, a practice that includes interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. Her work includes site-specific durational improvisation, solo theatrical dances, and video studies of art by Emmanuel Pratt, Virginio Ferrari, and Tang Chang at the Smart Museum of Art, and Philippe Parreno and Cevdet Erek at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has performed with companies and projects in the US, Asia, and Europe. Her writing on theater, art, dance, literature, and science can be found in venues including the Chicago Reader, LA Review of Books, SF Weekly, Newcity, and Chicago Sun-Times.
Hunter Diamond is a saxophonist and creative musician living and performing in Chicago, IL. Conceptual and improvised performances maintain his presence in the local and regional creative music communities. Hunter performs with several groups of his own: Black Diamond (co-led with saxophonist Artie Black), Herbsaint (New Orleans traditional), an improvising trio with guitarist Leroy Bach and bassist John Sutton, the Hunter Diamond Quartet, and Strange Frontiers: sonifying the poetry of his father Eric Diamond.
KT Shivak is an artist and puppeteer working in Chicago. As a member of the award winning puppetry collective Chicago Puppet Studio, KT has designed and built for productions by Ma-Yi Theater, The House, Lookingglass Theater, Lifeline Theater, Walkabout Theater, Manual Cinema, and Blair Thomas & Co. She has performed at the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ben Zucker engages in acts of creative juxtaposition and speculation as a composer, audiovisual artist, and multi-instrumentalist. He has contributed experimental music in places ranging from Elastic Arts to the London Roundhouse with concert works albums scores for media and frequent performances on brass, vibraphone, voice, and electronics. For his work he has been acclaimed as a "master of improvisation" (IMPOSE Magazine) and “more than a little bit remarkable” (Free Jazz Blog).
Jasmine Mendoza is a visual and performance artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs multimedia performance that incorporate improvisation, sound, film, objects, and theatrical play. Jasmine is fascinated by imagery, time, environment, and the body's ability to transform and extend beyond its human form when informed by these ideas. She has presented work and performed at the Arts Club of Chicago, Elastic Arts, Links Hall, Comfort Station, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago Art Department, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, Music Box Village, the Lyric Theater, and held residencies at Links Hall, Carrizozo AIR, and the Banff Centre. Frequent collaborators include Anna Martine Whitehead, Jenn Freeman, Zach Nicol, Lia Kohl, Corey Smith, Kioto Aoki, Kim Alpert, and Charles Rumback.
Katinka Kleijn is a cellist, improviser and multimedia artist. A member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the International Contemporary Ensemble, she performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at Lincoln Center, the Tokyo Metropolitan theater; in recital at Carolina Performing Arts and the Library of Congress. Recordings include STIR with guitarist Bill Mackay for Drag City Records and the Dai Fujikura cello concerto for SONY Japan. Her composition Forward Echo for 11 improvisers premiered at the Instigation Festival, and devised work with Lia Kohl resulted in Water on the Bridge for cellos and swimming pool, presented by the city of Chicago at the Eckhart Park Natatorium.
in conjunction with the Bridge
Keefe Jackson - reeds,
Didier Laserre - percussion,
Peter Orins - percussion,
Cristal Sabbagh - movment,
Sara Zalek - movement
Doors 7PM, Show 7:30 PM, $10 suggested donation
Homeroom is curating weekly Thursdays in April at Comfort Station, as part of our annual takeover of their Comfort Music Series. This year, we’re presenting an additional dimension — music acts combined w/ another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry!
set one
Ben Zucker - trumpet, vibraphone; K.T. Shivak - puppetry
set two
Molly Jones - saxophones, Marvin Tate - vocals
Doors 7PM, Show 7:30 PM, $10 suggested donation
Homeroom is curating weekly Thursdays in April at Comfort Station, as part of our annual takeover of their Comfort Music Series. This year, we’re presenting an additional dimension — music acts combined w/ another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry!
set one
Jasmine Mendoza - movement + guests
set two
Hunter Diamond - woodwinds, percussion
Maren Celeste - video
Hunter Diamond is a saxophonist and improvising composer based in Chicago. His work blurs the line between chamber composition and free improvisation while focusing on the primary elements of melody and rhythm. Originally coming from a jazz sensibility, Diamond continues to expand his artistic palette through studies of both American and international music traditions.
Doors 7PM, Show 7:30 PM, $10 suggested donation
Homeroom is curating weekly Thursdays in April at Comfort Station, as part of our annual takeover of their Comfort Music Series. This year, we’re presenting an additional dimension — music acts combined w/ another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry!
in conjunction with Comfort Station, presented by Experimental Sound Studio's Quarantine Concerts
7:30pm Tuli Bera - movement, Adam Shead - percussion
8:00pm Marvin Tate - voice, Molly Jones - saxophone
8:30 Sara Zalek - movement, Cher Jey - vocals
9:00pm Low: Alexander Hayashi - movement, Takashi Shallow - electronics
9:30 Cristal Sabbagh - movement, Scott Rubin - viola
Thursday, April 9th on Twitch.tv $donate what you can
Homeroom is curating weekly Thursdays in April at Comfort Station (online), as part of our annual takeover of their Comfort Music Series. This year, we’re presenting an additional dimension — music acts combined w/ another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry!
Artist Bios:
Tuli Bera is a Bengali-American dance artist based in Chicago. She co-runs the J e l l o Performance Series alongside fellow chicago artist, Sarah Stearn. Bera is a core dancer core dancer with Ishti. And she serves as Program Coordinator and Aerial Instructor at Aerial Dance Chicago. Adam Shead is among the newest generation of Chicago improvisers, bringing his unique approach to the drum set to such groups as Adam Shead’s “Finding Home”, Wark/Dawid/Heinemann/Shead, Ben Zucker’s “Fifth Season”, the Stein/Shead duo, and the Adiaphora Orchestra. Shead’s background in hardcore punk, contemporary classical, jazz, and improvised music provides him with the ability to move fluidily throughout a myriad of musical styles while utilizing extended techniques, blistering speed, and dynamic control in a manner often unheard on the drum set. Shead has performed at renowned music festivals such as The Present is Present in Amsterdam, NL, The Ann Arbor Edge Fest, Homebody Festival in South Bend, IN, and The Chicago Jazz Festival. Shead has performed alongside such luminaries as Jason Stein, Tim Daisy, Steve Swell, John Dikeman, Jasper Stadhouders, Mary Oliver, Anna Webber, Angel Bat Dawid, and Matt Piet. Shead is the founder and conductor of the twenty piece Adiaphora Orchestra and currently works as the Director of Outreach at Slate Arts and Performance in Chicago, IL.
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Marvin Tate is a multi-disciplinarian artist, from the city’s West-side. Influenced by the likes of: Amiri Baraka, Shel Silverstein, Funkidellic, Captain Beef Heart, Oscar Brown Jr., Roland Kirk, and Nina Simone; Tate effortlessly blends literary musings, social commentary and dark humor into his songs, art and storytelling.
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Molly Jones is an improviser, saxophonist, and electroacoustic composer based in Chicago.
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Sara Zalek (they/them/we/our/us), is a performing artist and facilitator, rooted in physical investigations of trauma, resilience, hybrids, and our complicated relationship to knowing. Our work challenges the capitalist quest for the eternal elixir, and asserts the intentional act of disruption to create social and ecological change. We connect national and international teaching artists with Chicago art-makers across genres in the independent and fringe arenas (including dance, Butoh, Physical Theater, Experimental Music). We foster positive communication and arts integration within Chicago’s complex, overlapping sectors. We create opportunities for workshops, performances, and conversations about the body, for the body.
www.butohchicago.com
www.saratonin.com
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Cher Jey is a Chicago based, multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD. She investigates expression through sound, movement and line. Her research explores improvisational and vocal styling elements of storytelling through black classical music, world music (with emphasis on Afro Cuban Lucumi song and dance) and stream of consciousness writing. She performs as vocalist and dancer for Chicago innovators David Boykin's Sebau and Expanse projects and Marvin Tate's Kitchen Sink, as well as Baltimore based multi-instrumentalist /composer Jamal Moore's Mojuba Ensemble. She produced and performed Cher Jey & The Abbey Project presents: THE MESSAGE, a tribute to vocalist/composer/actress Abbey Lincoln. Cher Jey is vocalist, conceptualist and intuitive composer for LUA, with guitarist Alex Wing and Sekhmet RISING, a collaborative project with percussion and wind instrumentalists Jamal Moore, Nik Francis and Bashi Rose.
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Low is an inquiry of lowness in body, sound, light and affect. Alexander Hayashi & Takashi Shallow utilize improvisational movement and music to navigate the collision of form and identity. The floor is the space for this dialogue to play out, questioning how culture and ideology shape the value of being low.
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Cristal Sabbagh is a teaching interdisciplinary artist influenced by film, history, politics, Butoh and improvised sound. In her performances, her goal is to embody transformational memories, challenge power structures, and awaken viewers senses. Cristal's found that working with live improvised music has inspired her best work, which has become vital to her practice. She’s currently curating and performing in Freedom From and Freedom To, an improvisational, cross-medium performance piece. It’s an opportunity to combine most of her creative interests in a risk-taking and vulnerable way. It uses an ensemble of dancers and improvising musicians that are remarkably diverse in their approaches to dance, instrumentation, and backgrounds. She's a core member of Marie Casimir’s Djasporas dance collective, seen at the Instigation Festivals in Chicago & New Orleans over the past four years. For the past three years, she's also been a member of Move Move Collaborative, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Scott Rubin is an interdisciplinary artist and improvising violist whose work interrogates relationships between sound and movement through analog and digital means. His recent projects have involved interdisciplinary collaborations with musicians and dancers, often incorporating interactive acoustic/electronic improvisation, expanded performance practices, motion-sensors, and live video. In these projects, he engages themes of intimacy, control, and the sublime.
set one
Art Union Humanscape
Ayako Kato - movement, Jason Roebke - double bass
set two
Scan Lines Duo
Kim Alpert - video, Paul Giallorenzo - electronics
Ayako Kato :
Ayako Kato is a Japanese-native and Chicago-based dancer, choreographer, and improviser. She has been an artistic director of Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape since 1998 and presented her work in Europe, Japan, and the United States. In 2017, she was selected for a Links Hall Co-MISSION Fellowship and a 3Arts Residency Fellowship to work at Camargo Foundation in the summer of 2018. In 2016, she received a 3Arts Award in Dance, Meier Achievement Award, and was named Top 5 Choreographers of Chicago by Newcity Stage. In January 2016, the New England Foundation for the Arts, together with the Chicago Dancemakers Forum (CDF), selected Ayako as one of 12 artists for the Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI) of its National Dance Project (NDP).
Jason Roebke:
The diversity of Jason Roebke’s musical associations make him one of the most sought after bassists in Chicago and beyond. He composes music for two ensembles, Jason Roebke Combination and the Jason Roebke Octet. Solo performance and a duo with dancer Ayako Kato are also at the forefront of his creative activities. His playing is intensely physical, audacious, and sparse. The Chicago Reader described his work as “a carefully orchestrated rummage through a hardware store.” He is a member of the Jeb Bishop Trio, Jason Adasiewicz Rolldown, Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore, Mike Reed’s People, Places, and Things, and Jorrit Dijkstra’s Flatlands Collective & Pillow Circles. Roebke studied privately with saxophonist and composer Roscoe Mitchell as well as legendary double bass pedagogue Stuart Sankey. In 2009, he was awarded the Fellowship in Music Composition from the Illinois Arts Council. Roebke tours widely in the US and Europe.
Kim Alpert:
Kim Alpert believes in human-centric design and integrating technology with strategy in her time-based projects. With a background in fine art, music, and carpentry Kim brings an attention to detail and diverse styles to both her art and commercial work. Kim holds a degree in Digital Art & Design from Full Sail University and was inducted into their hall of fame in 2013. She has shown art at places like Stony Island Arts Bank, SOFA Expo, The Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago and Facets Cinematheque. She has an interactive room to visualize and create sound as part of the permanent collection at the National Music Center/Studio Bell in Canada. Kim tours internationally with performance projects building digital and analog video systems. Her performance practice include works with Mike Reed, Rob Mazurek, Matthew Lux, The Instigation Orchestra and a host of other artists.
Paul Giallorenzo:
Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, producer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a diverse range of contexts with a wide array of Chicago and international musicians. He performs improvised, avant-jazz, experimental, and electro/acoustic music, performing regularly locally and throughout North America and Europe. Giallorenzo’s work has been praised for its “inside-out” nature – his ability to push the boundaries of “conventional” jazz toward more freedom but also, on the other side, to bring a measure of structure to more avant-garde material. In addition, he is a co-founder of the important Chicago performance space and gallery Elastic Arts. Writing in the online journal Point Of Departure, John Litweiler said, “His solos and aggressive duets are gems of after-Bop, after-Bley melody,” while AllAboutJazz.org lauded music that “smudges the lines between the tradition and the avant-garde.” His work can be found on the Chicago-based Delmark Records and Austin-based Astral Spirits labels, as well as various other imprints including Leo Records (UK), Not Two Records (Poland), and 482 Music (NY).
Homeroom is curating weekly Thursdays in April at Comfort Station, as part of our annual takeover of the Comfort Music Series. This year, we’re presenting an additional dimension — musicians collaborating with performers from another medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: Black Diamond & Billie Howard
Doors open at 7pm. Free, though donations to support the musicians are strongly encouraged.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: Eli Namay & The Bridge featuring Simon Seiger.
Doors open at 7pm. Free, though donations to support the musicians are strongly encouraged.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: Andrew Clinkman & Floatie.
Doors open at 7pm. Free, though donations to support the musicians are strongly encouraged.
Homeroom and The Bridge are proud to collaboratively present an evening of music from three prominent French and Chicago improvisers meeting for the first time at Comfort Station in Logan Square.
Geof Bradfield — tenor saxophone
Didier Petit — cello
Phil Sudderberg — drumset
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: Vivian Garcia & Nick Alvarez Group. Doors open at 7pm. Free, but donations to support the musicians are encouraged.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: Jacob Wick and Zacbe Pichardo. Doors open at 7pm. Free, but donations to support the musicians are encouraged.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Half Gringa and Mai Sugimoto/Katie Ernst. Doors open at 7pm. Free, but donations to support the musicians are encouraged.
Homeroom and Comfort Station present Comfort Music: VV Lightbody & The Bridge (featuring Daunik Lazro, Joshua Abrams, and Lisa Alvarado). Doors open at 7pm. Free, but donations to support the musicians are encouraged.
Ace da Vinci weaves R&B and jazz into rich hip-hop tapestries while rapping about self-discovery and the desire for peace-of-mind and personal and community growth.
Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, and producer using piano, synthesizer, keyboards, and electronics in a wide variety of groups and contexts, ranging from jazz and improvised music to electro-acoustic/noise to sound and video performance.
Peter Maunu is a veteran guitarist and violinist and was highly respected in the inner music circles of Los Angeles for session work ranging from Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Claus Ogerman, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Mark Isham to Bobby McFerrin, the Commodores, and the Pointer Sisters. After years of working LA, Maunu moved to Chicago in 2010’s and immediately immersed himself in the experimental jazz scene.
Homeroom is proud to present Comfort Music on Thursdays in May at Comfort Station (2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647). Each evening will see a Chicago hip-hop or soul performer paired with a jazz or improv act. This free series aims to bring together musicians and audiences who rarely share the same venue while presenting two genres thriving in Chicago.
This program was made possible in part due to a grant from Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Kai, the Mind is a young Chicago hip-hop and visual artist and founder of Black Tide Entertainment, a creative production company. Kai’s upbeat and playful music exudes ambition and sexuality.
The Bridge is a network French and American musicians structured around collaborative projects designed exchange, production, and diffusion to build a transatlantic bridge. The Bridge encourages meetings and relationships between creative musicians for the purpose of building enduring collaborations. Jean-Luc Guionnet, saxophone and organ, and Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, saxophone will perform.
Sean Masterson is an illusionist and theater performer.
Homeroom is proud to present Comfort Music on Thursdays in May at Comfort Station (2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647). Each evening will see a Chicago hip-hop or soul performer paired with a jazz or improv act. This free series aims to bring together musicians and audiences who rarely share the same venue while presenting two genres thriving in Chicago.
This program was made possible in part due to a grant from Illinois Arts Council Agency.
“Photos, left to right, by Mike Bump and Krzysztof Penarski”
Vagabond Maurice explores narratives of nerd mythos and Afro-futurism while paying homage to his jazz-hop and soul influences. Vagabond Maurice cathartically traverses with nostalgia-laced rhymes through atmospheric instrumentals helmed by Chinsaku. (Photo by Mike Bump)
Tim Daisy is a Chicago-based drummer, marimbist, and composer working in the fields of improvised and composed music. He has performed and recorded original music for modern dance, sound installations, film, and improvised music ensembles of various configurations since 1997. Tim also owns and operates Relay Records, documenting much of the creative work he has been involved with in Chicago and abroad since 2011. (Photo by Krzystof Penarski)
Homeroom is proud to present Comfort Music on Thursdays in May at Comfort Station (2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647). Each evening will see a Chicago hip-hop or soul performer paired with a jazz or improv act. This free series aims to bring together musicians and audiences who rarely share the same venue while presenting two genres thriving in Chicago.
Homeroom joins forces with Comfort Music, Comfort Station’s weekly music series to curate musical performances every Thursday for the month of May. Improvisers from Chicago’s jazz scene split bills with R&B and hip hop artists in four unique evenings of music that highlight Homeroom’s ability to facilitate artistic dialogue between artists and performers across genres.
