The Museum, in partnership with pt.fwd, is excited to present the NCHS Experimental Ensemble. This concert will conclude pt.fwd’s seventh season of music in Bloomington-Normal. This free concert will be at the Museum in the second-floor courtroom on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.
This concert will showcase NCHS’s young noise-makers as they explore new sounds, instruments, and performance techniques. Local artist Colin Winkelman will open the concert with new songs and electronic compositions. This concert is free and open to the public.
Since 2021, the Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble has provided students with the opportunity to learn about and perform a variety of musical and sonic traditions, including free improvisation, electroacoustic performance, and sound installations.
Students will play arrangements of American classics and improvisations with faculty members Stefen Robinson and Zachary Sargent, and guest artists.
pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Their mission is to celebrate the communal experience of coming together to listen to powerful new sonic art. In partnership with the McLean County Museum of History, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting. All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public.
To learn more, please visit ptfwd.org.
Questions? Please contact the Education Department.