In spring 2013, Reader music critic Peter Margasak launched the Frequency Series at north-side venue Constellation, opened earlier that year by drummer, composer, and impresario Mike Reed. His intent was to bring experimental and new classical music together on a stage that also hosted jazz and improvised music, reasoning that audiences would find commonalities between them.
- A track from Oren Ambarchi’s 2019 album Simian Angel
Sand/Layna by crys cole
Charles Curtis plays Eliane Radigue
Thu 2/27, 7 PM, Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, $5-$10, all ages
French composer Eliane Radigue (b. 1932) recorded exclusively long-form electronic music until 2004. That year she began devising similarly durational acoustic music for a select group of players, among them cellist Charles Curtis and trumpeter Nate Wooley (both Americans) and violist Julia Eckhardt (who lives in Belgium). At these concerts, the musicians will each perform pieces written specifically for them.
Rajna Swaminathan & Ganavya Doraiswamy
Sun 3/1, 2 PM, Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, free, all ages
Mridangam player Rajna Swaminathan is an associate of jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. Her recent album Of Agency and Abstraction (Biophilia), which features singer Ganavya Doraiswamy on a couple tracks, proposes a combination of jazz and Carnatic (southern Indian classical) music.
