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The Beat Bank

INTERESTING SIGHTS AND SOUNDS SINCE 1998
CHICAGO
Our Mission
Sandbox Symphony III

 

OUR MISSION

Highlight Live PA, Experimental Electronic, and progressive music while activating spaces for artist to create, perform and refine their art.

We have expanded to include outreach programs that teach multiple subjects to youth audiences centered around electronic music, science and wellness. One of our ultimate goals is to unlock potential greatness within youth and artist communities in Chicago by empowering them with alternative thinking.

Upcoming Events

  • Brother El's Sandbox Symphony VIII
    Aug 12, 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
    Chicago, Oakwood Beach, Chicago, IL 60653, USA
    A celebration in accessible art practice for healing and inspiration.
  • Brother El's Sandbox Symphony VII
    Aug 13, 2022, 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
    Chicago, Oakwood Beach, Chicago, IL 60653, USA
  • mind for time
    Sat, May 14
    Chicago
    May 14, 2022, 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    Chicago, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Brother El's Sonic Abstractions II "mind for time" is two immersive Live PA electronic music pieces exploring childhood innocence, color, form, environment, and social stimuli of the time through Bob Thompson's art.
  • Elastro AV
    Fri, Nov 19
    Chicago
    Nov 19, 2021, 8:00 PM – Nov 20, 2021, 12:00 AM
    Chicago, 3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
    Brother El is debuting a new sound piece constructed with 16.1 channels of audio in mind. The goal is to place the listener inside a matrix of immersive of healing sound.
  • Sounds Natural 2
    Sat, May 29
    Chicago
    May 29, 2021, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT
    Chicago, S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, USA
    A live music, art, and nature activation featuring performances by Brother El, AQ & Binky.
  • Sounds Natural
    Sun, Apr 18
    Chicago
    Apr 18, 2021, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Chicago, 3900 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60615, USA
    Live Electronic Music, Art, and Nature Activities At Bronzewood Gathering Space
  • Brother El's Collaborative iPad Symphony
    Sat, Nov 23
    Apple Michigan Avenue
    Nov 23, 2019, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    Apple Michigan Avenue, 401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    Explore how to create an electronic symphony with musician and spontaneous composer Brother El.
  • Live PA Institute Day
    Sat, Nov 16
    Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
    Nov 16, 2019, 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM CST
    Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Artists will gather at 11 am at the Logan Center for the Arts for a day of collaboration experimenting with sound. The day will feature hands-on workshops, live musician sampling sessions, marketing tutelage, a participant dinner, and evening performances that will be open to the public.
  • Sandbox Symphony IV
    Sat, Aug 10
    Oakwood Beach
    Aug 10, 2019, 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Oakwood Beach, Oakwood Beach, Chicago, IL 60653, USA
    This free, public spectacular features live electronic music, demonstrations by local visual artists, yoga, a mini pop-up farmers market with free nutritious snacks, jewelry making, and mobile toy creation cart.
  • Bronzeville: An Inquiry in Sound with “Brother El”
    Sun, Jul 21
    The Art Institute of Chicago
    Jul 21, 2019, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
    Listen to the live electronic music of Lional “Brother El” Freeman along with compositions written and recorded by Dyett High School for the Arts students.
  • Sliver Room Block Party
    Sat, Jul 20
    Hyde Park
    Jul 20, 2019, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
    Hyde Park, Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, USA
    Brother El rocking a special Live PA set for the Silver Room Block Party
  • Brother El: Sonic Abstractions (April)
    Sat, Apr 27
    Smart Museum of Art, The University of C
    Apr 27, 2019, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Smart Museum of Art, The University of C, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Lional "Brother El" Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's exhibition 'Solidary & Solitary.'
  • Brother El: Sonic Abstractions
    Sun, Mar 17
    Smart Museum of Art, The University of C
    Mar 17, 2019, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Smart Museum of Art, The University of C, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Lional "Brother El" Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's exhibition 'Solidary & Solitary.'
  • Mobilizing Through Improvisation: A Global South and Southside Chicago Collaboration
    Nov 14, 2018, 6:00 PM
    Grey Ceneter, 929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Stages an improvisational collaboration between local electronic musician Brother El from the south side of Chicago with actors and musicians from Ilkhom and Bata theaters of the post-Soviet south, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
  • Eat Your Words 2018
    Thu, Oct 04
    Chicago Cultural Center
    Oct 04, 2018, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA
    A benefit to celebrate and support the students of 826CHI.
  • Objects in the Midst of Other Objects (Artists Talk + After Party)
    Sep 28, 2018, 9:00 PM – Sep 29, 2018, 12:00 AM
    Rootwork Gallery, 645 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
    Objects in the Midst of other Objects: Black Male Formations and Subjectivities in Hyper-racial America Featuring the art work of Stephen Flemister + Spencer Paul Hutchinson with an original sound installation by Lional “Brother El” Freeman.
  • Quantum Englewood
    Sat, Sep 15
    Lindblom Math and Science Academy
    Sep 15, 2018, 8:00 PM
    Lindblom Math and Science Academy, 6130 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60636, USA
    A Journey Through 100 Years Of South Side Musical History (World Premiere Performance by Ernest Dawkins and Rahul Sharma)
  • 27th Annual 4th Ward Health & Wellness Fair
    Sat, Aug 25
    Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts
    Aug 25, 2018, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
    Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts, 555 E 51st St, Chicago, IL 60615, USA
    Alderman Sophia King hosts the 4th Ward Health & Housing Fair and the Brother El will be providing DJ'd vibrations.

Live PA Institute Day

Public Performances

NOVEMBER 16, 2019 @ 7 PM

The “Live PA Institute Day,” will be a day of building among peers, sharing process, technique, love and encouragement. The evening performances with be open to the public.

Guests and performers will be nominated from within the community.

Live PA InSTITUTE DAY ConFERENCE

WHEN

WHERE

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Conference: 11 am - 5 pm

Dinner: 5:30 pm

Logan Center (University of Chicago)

Chicago, IL 

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Additionally, The Beat Bank and Lional "Brother El" Freeman has worked with multiple Chicago institutions including but not limited to:

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