OPTION: BCMC (Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain)

BCMC are evolving as a band, currently writing new material, preparing their next recording, and discovering new ways of presenting work which is both composed and improvisational. This concert will visit where they’ve been and where they’re going.

This performance and interview are presented in the ESS garden, and will premiere online on ESS's YouTube.

The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.

Sunday, August 17

Doors at 2pm, Music at 3pm

Experimental Sound Studio Garden
5925 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago

BCMC, featuring Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay, unite to create provocative epilogues, warm avant-garde noir, and fiery over-driven jams to recall life’s sunnier and stranger days. Crain's organ and synths mix with MacKay’s guitars as they draw songs from elegiac themes and spontaneous statements that are equal parts east-west, deep space, avant-rock, raga, fugue, field recording, blues and beyond.

OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos and presented by Experimental Sound Studio. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a 'salon' format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform. Click here for past OPTION performances.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Experimental Sound Studio, 5925 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, United States