Back to All Events Improvised Music Series: Sri Perangur's Enargeia, Clark / Rubin + Dessel / Nguyen Thursday, June 11, 2026 8:30 PM 10:30 PM Google Calendar ICS Sri Perangur Photograph: Alice Bortel @alicegrrltakephoto (from upper left, clockwise) Chad M. Clark, Scott Rubin, Maya Nguyen, Erez Dessel Two improvised-music-and-video sets featuring: Chad M. Clark (guitar) and Scott Rubin (video) , plus Erez Dessel (keys) and Maya Nguyen (video) Sri Perangur (he/they) is a violinist, improviser, and composer trained in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) musical tradition. Following in the footsteps of premodern Indian painters, "Enargeia” seeks to imagine rāgas (melodic frameworks) not only as tastes, scents, and textures, but also as characters, ideas, and symbols. 8:30 pm: Sri Perangur’s Enargeia 9:15 pm: Clark / Rubin 10:00 pm: Dessel / Nguyen $15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door About The Artists Sri Perangur (he/they) is a violinist, improviser, and composer trained in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) musical tradition. Nurtured by violin maestros Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Vittal Ramamurthy, Sri carries forward the elegance and emotional depth of the Lalgudi school of music while blending it with his own explorations of poetry, history, and language. "Enargeia" is a project that celebrates the language of instrumental music. Following in the footsteps of premodern Indian painters, the project seeks to imagine rāgas (melodic frameworks) not only as tastes, scents, and textures, but also as characters, ideas, and symbols. "Enargeia" represents Sri's attempt to test tradition's ability to speak to contemporary senses and sensibilities. Maya Nguyen is a Chicago-based Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores sound, diasporic making, and lived ambiguity. She maps her own migrations across Hanoi, Moscow, and Chicago by weaving together speech fragments, urban recordings, video, and performance. Erez Dessel is a pianist, composer, and curator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BM in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. Dessel’s work explores the piano as a vehicle for human connection. A primary part of his practice is the history of the instrument as a tool for storytelling and world-building. Scott Rubin is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and improvising violist. His work explores the relationships between sound and movement by utilizing analog and digital technology, motion sensors, and live video. Chad M. Clark is a Chicago-based experimental guitarist whose practice expands the instrument into a site of physical inquiry, improvisation, and immersive sound. Attuned to the guitar’s material properties, Clark works with scale as both measure and sensation, moving between finite gestures and seemingly infinite fields of resonance. Tagged: improvised music series Previous Previous June 10 CLEAT Series: BARAS + Jared Kelley 'Irrational Machines' Next Next June 12 CLEAT Series: Duo Riso, SEth Andrew Davis
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