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8:30pm.Joshua Abrams & the Natural Information Society Community Ensemble
Natural Information Society (NIS) represents a convergence of musicians & artists to create sonic harbor, meditative space & kinetic momentum music. Realizing compositions by composer Joshua Abrams, the group's core quartet lineup includes Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Mikel Patrick Avery & Jason Stein. Working the seams between minimalism, jazz & experimental practice, the group has become a reference for contemporary non-idiomatic creative music. The band has recorded 7 albums for eremite records, collaborations with Bitchin Bajas for Drag City Records and toured extensively in North America, Europe & Brazil. In 2021 Abrams formed an expanded version of NIS called the Natural Information Society Community Ensemble, adding more winds & Chicago tenor saxophone legend Ari Brown to the group as heard on 2023's Since Time Is Gravity. For the Frequency Festival Abrams will reconvene the NIS Community Ensemble to premiere new music written for the ensemble. The lineup for the festival includes Joshua Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Josh Berman, Ari Brown, Ben Lamar Gay, Nick Mazzarella, Jason Stein & Mai Sugimoto.
Zosha Warpeha
Zosha Warpeha is a Brooklyn-based composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. She explores transformations of time and tonality on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, often layered delicately with her own voice. Her current solo work is informed by the cyclical forms, rhythmic elasticity, and the physical momentum of Nordic folk music.
Warpeha’s solo debut silver dawn [https://zosha.bandcamp.com/album/silver-dawn](Relative Pitch Records, 2024) has been lauded as a “breathtaking dialogue between Warpeha and her instrument” (I Care if You Listen [https://icareifyoulisten.com/2024/04/5-question-to-zosha-warpeha-composer-performer/]), her compositional process “subverting tradition not as a political act, but as a point of departure” (Peter Margasak [https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/under-the-spell-of-violins]). She is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and her work has also been supported by the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-6409, United States,Chicago, Illinois
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