Emily Rach Beisel's "Sumptuous Branching" w/ Mute Duo

Name: Emily Rach Beisel's "Sumptuous Branching" w/ Mute Duo
Start: 2026-04-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618

Schedule

Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618 | Chicago, IL

8:30pm.

Emily Rach Beisel celebrates the release of Sumptuous Branching (Amalgam) with a live performance of the album in its entirety - a visceral set born from late medieval chant, refracted through Beisel’s trademark resonant, multilayered bass clarinet alongside electronics, voice, and piccolo. Sharing the evening is the Chicago experimental heavy mainstay Mute Duo - Skyler Rowe (drums/percussion) and Sam Wagster (pedal steel) - whose music moves from sparse chime to pummeling drone with hypnotic rhythmic fluidity.

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Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances blending extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analogue electronics. Their works is described as "heavy stuff, sounds retrieved from the deeper places… Beisel pokes around in the sonic depths and brings leviathans out to play. (A Jazz Noise)” As a curator, Beisel seeks to increase the visibility and involvement of femme, trans and nonbinary artists in the creative performance community. They founded the Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, presenting monthly performances, community-based free improvisation sessions and a biennial PleiadesFest. Beisel holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, is a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 10-208 and is honored to be a 2024 3Arts Awardee in Music.

www.emilybeisel.com [http://www.emilybeisel.com/]
@beisel_m_ [https://www.instagram.com/beisel_m_/?hl=en]
https://emilyrachbeisel.bandcamp.com/album/sumptuous-branching

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Chicago's Mute Duo is Skyler Rowe (drums/percussion) and Sam Wagster (pedal steel). Building on simple, composed melodies, Mute Duo explores an atmosphere ranging from sparse chimes to pummeling drone with a free, rhythmic fluidity, and minimal electronic textures. They have released two LPs - ‘Lapse in Passage’ (2020), and ‘Migrant Flocks’(2023) - on American Dream Records, and in 2023, they also released the cassette ’5amSky,’ a live collaboration with Matthew Lux, Andrew Scott Young, and Chelsea Bridge on Astral Editions. In the summer of 2024, the Duo opened for REZN on an extensive three week West Coast tour, and in 2025 they opened the inaugural ‘Sound and Gravity’ festival. Earlier this year, they recorded their forthcoming LP with Cooper Crain at Electrical Audio.

@mute_duo [https://www.instagram.com/mute_duo/?hl=en]
https://muteduoadr.bandcamp.com/album/migrant-flocks