Since 2010 this invaluable Chicago ensemble directed by composer Nomi Epstein has been the city’s most stalwart advocate for post-John Cage experimental music, working at various times with text scores, indeterminacy, and other open-ended modes of composition. For this unusual concert Aperiodic joins new-music scholar Jennie Gottschalk to illustrate some of the threads from her book Experimental Music Since 1970 (Bloomsbury), an accessible survey of some of the most interesting if misunderstood through lines in new music over the last five decades.…
Since 2010 this invaluable Chicago ensemble directed by composer Nomi Epstein has been the city’s most stalwart advocate for post-John Cage experimental music, working at various times with text scores, indeterminacy, and other open-ended modes of composition. For this unusual concert Aperiodic joins new-music scholar Jennie Gottschalk to illustrate some of the threads from her book Experimental Music Since 1970 (Bloomsbury), an accessible survey of some of the most interesting if misunderstood through lines in new music over the last five decades.…