Music in the Garden is back with a vengeance for our 5th anniversary. Get your daily tickets or festival passes here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-in-the-garden-2026-copresented-by-elastic-arts-homeroom-tickets-2004024488191
SATURDAY NIGHT: SONIC CURIOSITY
New York experimental musician, composer and creative technologist Qiujiang Levi Lu
Qiujiang Levi Lu presents an improvised solo electronic set developed from an evolving five-year feedback practice. Using self-built feedback trumpet and trombone systems, Tapescape, an intraoral speaker, and a joystick-controlled processing instrument, Lu builds recursive circuits between the body, acoustic instruments, electronics, and the surrounding space. The performance moves between sustained drone, fragile resonance, and volatile noise, unfolding through close attention to breath, touch, repetition, and the shifting balance between control and surrender.
Watch: https://youtu.be/3BXcFTV4Eb4?is=ngAD5VF8tesjwFR6
Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working across sound, performance, text, and visual art Isabel Crespo Pardo
Captivated by the realms of memory, spirit and ephemerality, Isabel Crespo Pardo creates rituals of transformation that center improvisation as a bridge to the subconscious. Inspired by latin american histories, black american art, and queer and trans thought, crespo treats performance as a site where vulnerability, interconnection, and form are negotiated in real time.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp40nsXWCqY
Chicago based duo Heavy Tiny
Heavy Tiny is a small dense thing, bigger inside than out. Heavy Tiny is a diorama of the outside of the room that we’re in. Heavy Tiny is field recordings, synths, walkie talkies, found objects, Nick Meryhew and Lia Kohl.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrL-tP-oDw
Read Interview: https://comfortstationlogansquare.org/features-blog/heavytinyinterview
Curated by Caroline Jesalva & Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Music in the Garden returns to Elastic and expands to 3 days of multidisciplinary art.
Join us at the Music in the Garden Festival Season 5 at Elastic Arts !
Music in the Garden presents 3 days of music, artisans, creative soirees and more with Chicago and New York-based artists. This year's Music in the Garden features spatial interventions by Chicago-based artist Ruby Jeune Tresch.
Come enjoy music, art and community. Presented by Elastic Arts Foundation and Homeroom Chicago.