Performance: An Evening of Experimental Music at IMSS

Kory Reeder, Nick Zoulek, Jeff Kimmel, Graham Stephenson, and Jack Langdon: An Evening of Experimental Music at IMSS

February 1, 2026

7:00-9:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Student - use code STUDENT at checkout

(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door)

$10 IMSS Members Presale - use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout

(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door)

$15 GA Presale

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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door

$20 GA at Door

An evening of experimental music featuring Texas-based performer Kory Reeder joined by Chicago musicians Nick Zoulek, Jeff Kimmel, Graham Stephenson, and Jack Langdon. The first set will feature intense drone from Zoulek and Reeder, with the second set featuring sparse, lowercase-inspired musics from Kimmel, Stephenson, Langdon, and Reeder.

Kory Reeder, cello/objectsKory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory, is often introspective with a “rarefied atmosphere” (Bandcamp), investigating ideas of objectivity and immediacy, while exploring the social implications of musical interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber works to field recording, text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.https://www.koryreeder.com

Jack Langdon, bibigwan Jack Langdon is an Ojibwe composer of experimental music. His work investigates incompleteness, indifference, mimesis, stagnation, and material brevity. He is currently devising systematic approaches to non-harmony. As a performer, his mediums are the pipe organ and the Ojibwe wooden flute, the bibigwan.www.jacklangdon.info

Jeff Kimmel Jeff Kimmel is a Chicago-based clarinetist whose work encompasses improvisation, new and experimental music, and interdisciplinary collaborations. His discography includes releases on New Focus Recordings, Dinzu Artefacts, Amalgam, Peira and Low Impact. His work has been supported by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and he was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to work with Roscoe Mitchell. He holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory.
https://www.jeffkimmel.com

Nick Zoulek, saxophone Nick Zoulek builds worlds out of brass, breath, and reeds. Based in Chicago, Zoulek is a saxophonist whose music feels physical, visceral, and urgent. Tender one moment, tectonic the next, his sounds are simultaneously alive and mechanized. Allan Kozinn wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “Zoulek’s performance, on saxophones in every range, is stunningly virtuosic, whatever the genre.” A musician of “pure mindfulness and talent” (PopMatters), his intuitive playing results in a “no-holds barred engine of avant-garde exploration.” (Portland Press Herald)https://nickzoulek.com

Graham Stephenson Graham Stephenson is a trumpet player living in Chicago, Illinois. He started playing trumpet in 1990, in the fifth grade, and studied with Larry Prescott. He has performed the electroacoustic improvised music on trumpet since 2005 with Dave Barnes, members of the Green Pasture Happiness, Richard Kamerman, and others. His solo recording debut was released in 2011 by Pilgrim Talk. He also plays trumpet in folk-music bands.

This project is partially supported by a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

The International Museum of Surgical Science acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.