Alternating Currents Live presents Jim Baker and Chad M. Clark, who have performed together in the past in an improvised trio with Chicago drummer Bill Harris. This event marks the first time the two will perform together as a duo. Induced by the danger of the art form, the players will seek to shape acoustical anomalies and extemporized musical elements into meaningful form. Jim will be playing some combination of synth, midi piano, and viola, while Chad will be rotating between guitar and amplified zither.

Jim Baker has been living in Chicago and playing and writing music there for several decades, has played thousands of gigs, appeared on more than 80 recordings, played with a bunch of people whose names may be familiar to you (even if they might be otherwise mostly unknown to people who do not follow the 'improv' scene). His most recent previous performances at Woodland Pattern were with Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber in 2019, and, a few years earlier, with Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt playing as Extraordinary Popular Delusions, an improvising group which has played, for the past fifteen years, almost every Monday evening at Beat Kitchen, in Chicago.

Chad M. Clark is a Chicago-based guitarist and improviser. Immersed in the instrument's physical properties, his palette is a measure of size, encompassing both finite and infinite magnitudes. He has performed with Mark Feldman, Ayako Kato, Bill Harris, Damon Smith, Viv Corringham, Weasel Walter, Norman Long, Carol Genetti, and Jack Wright.

Concert: Alternating Currents Live presents Jim Baker and Chad M. Clark