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Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward-thinking practices particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

08/31/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK - S&G 2026 🌟

Happy Sound & Gravity! The time has arrived. Are you ready?

9/3: Mick Turner & Heart Trio (William Parker, Hamid Drake, Cooper Moore)
9/4: Eliana Glass, Capatosta (Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Gregg Belisle-Chi) & Ana Roxanne
9/5: Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer, Contre Jour, Josh Johnson & Marc Ribot
9/6: David Moore, Otto Benson & Joan Shelley

Fest Passes are running low. Many Venue Tickets are sold out. Don't wait until it's too late! Catch us on the river beginning Thursday 😎

08/26/2026

f r i d a y ~

8/28: Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother - ) creates soundscapes using field sounds and archival sound collage in order to create sonic maps that allow us to journey to our buried histories and futures. She is an artist who, through writing, music, film, visual art, socially engaged art, and creative research, explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming oppressive linear temporalities into empowering, alternative temporalities. Her work seeks to inspire practical techniques of vision and agency against a forever expanding re -conquering of land, housing, and health in Black communities.

Check out this clip from "All The Money (feat. Alya Al-sultani)" for a taste of what's coming up.

Moor Mother will be joined by Blacks' Myths & Lily Finnegan for a night of unforgettable music.

If you've been asleep on this stacked bill, there are tickets linked in our bio. Move quick or miss out!

08/24/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

8/26: Michael Columbia Record Release Show w/ Null Mutants
8/28: Moor Mother w/ Blacks' Myths & Lily Finnegan

Full calendar and ticket link in bio ✨

08/17/2026

🌟THIS WEEK🌟

Jazz fans, look alive! We've got some inspiring performances happening this week.

8/20: Chamber Music America () hosts a Night at Constellation featuring performances by Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble (), Huu Bac Quintet (), & Andy Milne & Unison (.milne.music )
8/21: Arman Sangalang Quartet () Record Release show. Presented with help from our lovely friends over at WDCB Jazz ()

Ticket link and full calendar in bio ✨

08/12/2026

✨SUPPORT ADDED✨

9/28: Paige Alice Naylor () is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist, sound artist, technologist and educator. Through sound-making and performance, she investigates the dissolution of time and the breakdown of language with electronically processed voice, tape loops, handmade electronics, field recordings, text scores, multichannel sound, poetry, and repetitive, layered production. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate.

9/29: Hausu Mountain co-founder Max Allison () records under the name Mukqs. He twists elements of ambient, dance music, noise, and free-for-all sample collage into rapidly shifting productions united under the banner of his strictly live, hardware-focused practice which foregrounds improvisation and chance operation. Mukqs music has appeared on labels such as Orange Milk, Umor Rex, Jacktone, Doom Trip, & Husky Pants. His most recent album Juckport was released on Hausu Mountain in June 2026.

Ticket link and full calendar in bio 🌟

08/10/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

8/14: Chicago’s longest running puppet slam, Nasty, Brutish & Short, is an evening of contemporary short-form puppet and object-based theater for adult audiences.

Hosts:
Noah Ginex Puppet Company ()

Curators:
Caitlin McLeod ()
Myra Su (.y.su)

Featured Artists:
Honglan Huang
Theatre Nobody ()
Sion Silva () & Rachel Hartmann ()
Misa Sourour ()
Flora & Fauna ( , , , , )
Val deGroot ()
Lily Cox
Claire Saxe ()

Tickets and full calendar in our bio ✨

08/08/2026

🌟 JUST ANNOUNCED 🌟

3/28: Presenting their new album Deuce live for the first time in Chicago, Manu Delago and Max ZT, the two Grammy nominated instrument innovators unite in a bold new duo, reimagining their melodic and percussive instruments to create soundscapes of delicacy, depth and drive. Having met Max ZT 10 years ago when Manu Delago was touring in the US with Bjork, the two musicians formed a striking connection that draws from a lifetime of global collaboration, deep improvisation, and refined compositional craft. Together Manu Delago (handpan) and Max ZT (hammered dulcimer) create immersive, rhythmic, lush, meditative soundscapes.

Tickets and full calendar in bio ✨

08/06/2026

✨ JUST ANNOUNCED ✨

10/4: Now entering its tenth year, Curiosity is ~Nois Quartet's () annual concert series dedicated to featuring new (and new-ish) music featuring artists with ties to Chicago. What might you hear at a Curiosity show? An hour of drone music? Electronics with weird alien noises? A bad joke told from the stage purely to stall for time while Jordan tries to find a replacement reed because he broke his other one slap tonguing for five minutes straight on the first piece of the program? Well, probably a mix of all three. Whatever it is we play, we invite the listener to get curious with us as we explore the here and now with the groundbreaking new music coming out of the city we call home.

Tickets and full calendar in bio 🌟

08/03/2026

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟

8/8: Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker

This working quartet is a perfect example of what makes Chicago such a fertile breeding ground for improvised music; four musicians of widely varying ages, backgrounds, playing experiences, and musical interests join forces to deliver moments of both sublime beauty and volcanic energy, continually tempered by the seamless narrative momentum that they weave together in a seemingly effortless way.

Full calendar and ticket link in bio ✨

07/31/2026

🌟SUPPORT ADDED🌟

9/17: Squished between shifts at the carwash, physics papers, and soccer games, Racecourse () was formed in the winter of 2022. The indie rock quintet (Reya Langen, Graeme Stage, Jackson Pruett, Ben Chung, and Joaquin Jorgenson) huddled together through muddy Santa Cruz winters in Jackson's bedroom and Graeme's garage. Working with tape machines and laptops, they completed their debut record, July, December, in a cabin by the Yuba River in the winter of 2025. Now living in New York, Racecourse moves forward.

Tickets and full calendar via the link in bio ✨

Address

3111 N Western Avenue
Chicago, IL
60618

Website

http://constellation-chicago.com/, https://soundandgravity.org/

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