Live Concert. String Ensemble with Irene Setchfield on bass, Chelsea Bridge on violin, Billie Howard on violin, Johanna Brock on viola, & Brendan Finucane on cello

From October 5 - November 30, Bret Schneider's just-intoned player piano will be located at Comfort Station. The programming ranges from generative compositions running on afternoons, string ensemble concerts, and discussions on music experience in the 21st century.

Bret Schneider is a composer, essayist, & poet. For the first quarter of the 21st century, Schneider has attempted to synthesize the outer limits of third ear music with modern beauty. Via novel formal experiments, his music cultivates dreamspace & reverie. Recent works include live-composing to a just-intoned player piano. Schneider is also a co-founder of Caesura Magazine.

Chelsea Bridge is the solo project of Chicago based musician and experimental artist Mallory Linehan, a conservatory trained classical violinist who creates psychedelic and deeply cinematic soundscapes that range from subdued to erotically charged to harsh blasts of noise. -Bob Holmes

Irene Setchfield is a Chicago-based experimental musician with specialty in upright bass and piano, incorporating organic noise, storytelling and cinematic texture. Her aim is to embrace a state of tabula rasa when the natural impulse is to seek order, and in so doing to draw the upright bass out of the musical corner into which it has been painted. Since 2011 she has comprised half of the psycho-ambient Chicago duo Sister/Brother and most recently expanded into solo ambient work as fashioncitybakesale.

Billie Howard is a multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, music educator, and event producer. As Akosuen, she composes experimental music that focuses on breathing cycles, chronic pain, and mediation on both quiet and extremely loud sounds. Billie is a founding member of the contemporary music collective a.pe.ri.od.ic. and the experimental improvisation group NbN Trio. In addition to classical music, she writes and performs with her band The Paver and plays keyboards and violin with countless bands in both recording sessions and live performances.  She holds a M.Mus. in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and B.A. in piano and violin performance from Montana State University. She is a 2021 3Arts Make a Wave grant recipient.