Eli Winter Ensemble presents Ghost Notes

Ensemble:

Eli Winter - electric guitar and piano
Tyler Damon - drums
Gerrit Hatcher - tenor saxophone
Andrew Scott Young - upright bass
David Sexton - violin, bowed guitars
Sam Wagster - pedal steel guitar

Eli Winter is a writer, composer, and self-taught guitarist based in Chicago. Reaching across technical styles and musical idioms, Winter has developed a practice rooted in listening and collaboration, drawing inspiration from luminaries like fellow Houstonian Pauline Oliveros, his compatriots across Chicago’s jazz scene and beyond, and a host of guitar heroes. In his evolving work Ghost Notes, Winter explores new compositional methods, collaging and sculpting a bank of samples reaching back across years of recordings created with friends and fellow travelers, from studios to living rooms. This ensemble performance in Bond Chapel assembles a group of musicians who appeared on the original recordings, playing through the new works live as compositions for the first time and taking them as launchpads for further improvisation.

Presented in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio.

The 2024-2025 Music Series is generously supported by a grant from the University of Chicago Women’s Board.