PT.FWD

🔊 This Saturday, Sept. 27, computer music pioneer John Bischoff & will kick off the 2025-2026 pt.fwd season! 🔊

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FREE ADMISSION
1613 East Emerson Street, Bloomington, IL
Saturday Sept. 27, 7pm

Bischoff (Oakland, CA) will perform new compositions for DIY electronics and laptop software. star tilde (Bloomington-Normal, IL) will perform new ambient pieces written using custom software instruments and plugins.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025pulice &

Saxophonist, composer and improviser Cole Pulice (Oakland, CA) traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On “Land’s End Eternal”, their first album for Leaving Records , Pulice expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. Swim Ignorant Fire (Bloomington-Normal, IL) will perform new tracks arranged for an ensemble of performers.

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Date TBD, Spring 2026
👀 Mystery Artist 👀

Stay very tuned!!! You won’t want to miss this one... 👀

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Saturday, May 9, 2026

Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble

NCHS students will play arrangements of American classics and improvisations with faculty members Stefen Robinson and Zachary Sargent and guest artists.

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All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

pt.fwd’s 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 and other local venues, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting.

Visit the links in our bio or www.ptfwd.org for full details! 📌

.fwd presents John Bischoff &
Saturday, Sept 27, 2025

Opening for John Bischoff, star tilde (Jael Oriekaose) is a music technologist and digital instrument designer based in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. A recent graduate from .creativetech , he will perform new ambient pieces written using custom software instruments and plugins.

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All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

pt.fwd's 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 and other local venues, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting.

Visit the links in our bio or www.ptfwd.org for full details! 📌

As we gear up to announce more of our 2025-2026 programming season at pt.fwd, join us for a look back at some of the wonderful images made during last year’s shows.

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All .fwd concerts are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

pt.fwd’s 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.

www.ptfwd.org

✨ Upcoming Season sneak peak! ✨

pt.fwd presents Cole Pulice
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 6:30pm
McLean County Museum of History
200 N. Main St
Bloomington, IL

Saxophonist, composer and improviser .pulice (Oakland, CA) traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land’s End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records (released May 9th), the Oakland, CA-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Cole’s previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork and included in the publication’s Best Songs Of The 2020s. Cole has also released a smattering of solo and collaborative work on beloved labels including Moon Glyph, Aural Canyon and Cached Media. Their performance history includes appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival (UK), Rewire (NL), ÜBERJAZZ (DE), Drone Not Drones (US), & Noise Pop Festival (US).

This concert is generously funded by the Mirza Foundation.

Don't miss it!!!

Link in bio! 🔗

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All .fwd concerts are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

pt.fwd's 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.

www.ptfwd.org

On Saturday, May 3, 2025, the NCHS
Experimental Ensemble will perform a concert in the at 7pm. 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.

Full event details are available on pt.fwd’s website.

Since 2018, pt.fwd has been a vibrant force in the Central Illinois arts community. We are an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes music events in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. pt.fwd’s 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 and other local venues, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in historic, and acoustically curious, settings. All of our events are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an artist-run, independent non-profit program that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public. pt.fwd’s programming is generously supported by the Mirza Foundation and the Town of Normal’s Harmon Arts Grant.