For the last dozen years, Chicago’s Hieroglyphic Being (Jamal Moss) has been tearing up his hometown’s world-famous house-music blueprint and devising new strategies. A restless experimenter, Moss has injected a wide range of bizarre tonalities and strangely angled rhythms into what has become a staid genre. (His “Imaginary Landscapes” series similarly weirds up ambient music.) At 2013’s Debacle Fest, Hieroglyphic Being fused Conrad Schnitzler’s infernal analog-synth machinations with Sun Ra’s unpredictable astral jazz; it was mind-boggling. Expect more of that spectacular boundary-busting tonight. (Kremwerk, 1809 Minor Ave, kremwerk.com, 9 pm, $10, 21+)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...