events
Jan
14
Sun
1366 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Free Event
A multimedia event of energetic new percussive music comes January 14th to Emporium-Wicker Park as guest artists composer Elliot Cole and percussionist Peter Ferry join beyond this point, featuring Ferry as a soloist in the first-ever performance of Cole’s new work for percussion and film, The Future is Bright. Cole will also be featured singing in his Hanuman’s Leap, a dramatically percussive retelling of the 2,500 year-old Indian “Hanuman” myth. True to the program’s eclectic nature, this work draws on epic song, hip hop and reggae, throat singing, choral and experimental music to create something both ancient and new.
Feb
21
Wed
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
Tickets $15 General Admission
beyond this point presents a set of works exploring the ritualistic, contemplative, and sometimes quirky worlds of minimalist percussion. Each piece in the program seeks to investigate the diversity, prospective, and performance practice found within miniature percussion instruments while highlighting their unique and innately beautiful sonic capabilities.
Program
Wah by Juri Seo
Shui by Juri Seo
Shi by Alexandre Lunsqui
Circle by Seung-Won Oh
Mar
15
Thurs
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
An investigation of the relationship of humans to the natural world, this evening-length program brings together a set of repertoire that connects the performers to the base materials of percussion–woods, skins, metals, water, stones, seeds–through staged interactions. Paul Lansky’s Threads serves as the framework of a journey through a program including works by Matthew Burtner, Toro Takemitsu, Juri Seo, John Cage (Child of Tree), Erik Griswold, and Richard Reed Parry. Excerpted material from lectures by Alan Watts–perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophy for the contemporary West–serves as a guiding voice in a program designed to create space for audiences to consider and explore their own connection with the external environment.
4000 S M-137 Hwy, Interlochen, MI
Encapsulating the adventurous and cutting-edge music of composer Steve Reich, beyond this point joins Grammy-winning ensembles Eighth Blackbird and Third Coast Percussion in bringing Reich's rich and complex Music for 18 Musicians to the stage.
Apr
6
Fri
38 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL
An investigation of the relationship of humans to the natural world, this evening-length program brings together a set of repertoire that connects the performers to the base materials of percussion–woods, skins, metals, water, stones, seeds–through staged interactions. Paul Lansky’s Threads serves as the framework of a journey through a program including works by Matthew Burtner, Toro Takemitsu, Juri Seo, John Cage (Child of Tree), Erik Griswold, and Richard Reed Parry. Excerpted material from lectures by Alan Watts–perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophy for the contemporary West–serves as a guiding voice in a program designed to create space for audiences to consider and explore their own connection with the external environment. The program runs approximately 70 minutes and is followed by a post-show reception.
May
4
Fri
1020 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL
Free Event
beyond this point once again joins forces with Matthew Duvall of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird in a collaboration celebrating the numerous, varied approaches to percussion performance. The program will feature a collection of immersive, contemplative, and powerful works that explore the very substance of what defines the world of percussion: the base materials (stone, seed, metal, skin, cactus, wood) activated to musical purpose.
Sept
8
Fri
4766 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Modeled loosely after the long-running sketch comedy television program Whose Line Is It Anyway?, this percussion-based, audience-participatory variety show features a talented team of musicians and actors in humorous and provocative improvised games, puzzles, and skits. Working in partnership with innovative composer Danny Clay and veteran Chicago actor Kirk Anderson, beyond this point presents an immersive program that invites curious audiences to embrace the unexpected and challenge the status quo for the concert experience. Borrowing from the improvised sketch comedy genre, Whose Gong Is It Anyway? casts audiences as co-curators and co-stars by encouraging spectator reactions, suggestions, and participation.
Sept
8
Fri
Sept
9
Sat
4766 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Modeled loosely after the long-running sketch comedy television program Whose Line Is It Anyway?, this percussion-based, audience-participatory variety show features a talented team of musicians and actors in humorous and provocative improvised games, puzzles, and skits. Working in partnership with innovative composer Danny Clay and veteran Chicago actor Kirk Anderson, beyond this point presents an immersive program that invites curious audiences to embrace the unexpected and challenge the status quo for the concert experience. Borrowing from the improvised sketch comedy genre, Whose Gong Is It Anyway? casts audiences as co-curators and co-stars by encouraging spectator reactions, suggestions, and participation.
4766 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
Modeled loosely after the long-running sketch comedy television program Whose Line Is It Anyway?, this percussion-based, audience-participatory variety show features a talented team of musicians and actors in humorous and provocative improvised games, puzzles, and skits. Working in partnership with innovative composer Danny Clay and veteran Chicago actor Kirk Anderson, beyond this point presents an immersive program that invites curious audiences to embrace the unexpected and challenge the status quo for the concert experience. Borrowing from the improvised sketch comedy genre, Whose Gong Is It Anyway? casts audiences as co-curators and co-stars by encouraging spectator reactions, suggestions, and participation.
Sept
10
Sun
Dec
10
Sun
1770 W Berteau Ave, Chicago, IL
Suggested Donation $5-10
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Century Mallet, a mallet and percussion tuning, repair and restoration shop in the Deagon building (Ravenswood), is hosting Emanation for the 7th time. This beautiful space is filled with vintage seasoned and novel percussion instruments and on December 10th will be filled with fantastic music and good people.