May 2003 Doings
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Listening

  • Urs Leimgruber/Barre Phillips/Jacques Demiere trio @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Věra Bilá @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • "New Music Marathon: from A to Z!" (Northwestern Univ.):
    • Stephen Syverud perf. "42 for Henry Flynt" by Lamonte Young
    • Frances-Marie Uitti perf. "Orenda" by Jay Alan Yim 
    • Frances-Marie Uitti & Mark Dresser
    • Winston Choi perf. "Carny" by John Zorn
    • Douglas Torrance/Jared Davis/Emily Threinen/Przemyslaw Bosak clarinet 4tet perf. "Kol Nidre" by John Zorn
    • Frances-Marie Uitti perf. "Untitled (1999)" by John Zorn
    • NU Contemporary Music Ensemble perf. "For Your Eyes Only" by John Zorn
    • various musicians perf. "Cobra" by John Zorn
          
  • Nat Adderley - Introducing Nat Adderley (Verve)
  • Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Paris Jazz Concert vol. 1/2 (Malaco)
  • Bombshelter DJs Z-Trip & Radar - Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession vol. 2
  • Anthony Braxton - Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 vol.1 (Leo)
  • Don Byas - 1944-1945 (Classics)
  • John Carter - Castles of Ghana (Gramavision)
  • Mapathé Diop - Sabar Wolof: Dance Drumming of Senegal (Village Pulse)
  • Kenny Dorham Quintet - Showboat (Bainbridge)
  • 8 Bold Souls - Last Option (Thrill Jockey)
  • Ostad Elahi - The Paths of Divine Love (Le chant du monde)
  • FJF - Blow Horn (Okkadisk)
  • FME - Live at the Glenn Miller Café (Okkadisk)
  • Gillespie/Rollins/Stitt - Sonny Side Up (Verve)
  • Paul Gonsalves/Ray Nance - Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' (Black Lion)
  • Billie Holiday - Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 (Columbia, discs 1-5)
  • Toshio Hosokawa - Landscape I (Auvidis Montaigne)
  • Steve Lacy - Associates (Felmay/New Tone)
  • Witold Lutoslawski [Los Angeles Philharmonic] - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (Sony Classical)
  • Nirvana - In Utero (Geffen)
  • Tom Prehn Quartet - Tom Prehn Quartet (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
  • Willie "The Lion" Smith - Pork and Beans (1201 Music)
  • Joseph Spence - Happy All The Time (Water)
  • Cecil Taylor - Two Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza, discs 6-10)
  • Jack Teagarden/Pee Wee Russell - Jack Teagarden's Big Eight/Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers (Riverside/OJC)
  • Tommy Turrentine - Tommy Turrentine (Bainbridge)
  • Andre Williams - Bait and Switch (Norton)
  • John Zorn - Cartoon/S&M: Chamber Music (Tzadik)
  • various artists - Masters of Turkish Music (Rounder)

Reading

  • Why Duchamp - Gianfranco Baruchello & Henry Martin
  • Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth - Paula Marantz Cohen
  • Abbas Kiarostami - Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa & Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • Rap Attack 3 - David Toop

Watching

  • From the Other Side [De l'autre côté] - Chantal Akerman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "Tribute and Benefit for Stan Brakhage" (Gene Siskel Film Center):
    • The Jesus Trilogy and Coda
    • Ascension
    • Resurrectus Est
    • Max
    • Panels for the Walls of Heaven
  • Blackboards - Samira Makhmalbaf (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Decay of Fiction - Pat O'Neill (Block Cinema)
  • Safe Conduct- Bertrand Tavernier (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "Alternative Imaging: Low-Tech and Handmade Films" (Chicago Filmmakers @ Columbia College):
    • Skate - Cade Bursell
    • Tablecloth - Sandra Gibson
    • Sections Through a Cone Taken Down Without Regard for Frames Then Projected at 24 Frames Per Second - Bruce McClure
    • The Or Cloud - Fred Worden
    • Patina - Peter Herwitz
    • Hojas de Maiz - Eric Theise; live music by Fred Lonberg-Holm
    • Moon Streams - Mary Beth Reed
    • Gossamer Conglomerate - Courtney Hoskins
    • Light Magic - Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
    • film from Plate series - Ryusuke Ito
  • "Experimental Shorts" (WIDC Theater):
    • The Fine Arts - Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, video
    • Language Lessons - Jeanne C. Finley & John Muse, video)
    • Pellet - Kobayashi Kazushi, video
    • The Blessing - Sandra Contreras (video projection)
    • Vessel Wrestling - Lisa Yu (video projection)
    • Switch Center - Ericka Beckman (video projection)
    • In Order Not To Be Here - Deborah Stratman (video projection)
         
  • L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni (Doc Films)
  • Cremaster 1 - Matthew Barney (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Cremaster 2 - Matthew Barney (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Cremaster 3 - Matthew Barney (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Forty Guns - Samuel Fuller (Doc Films)
  • "Films by Ernie Gehr" (Film Studies Center @ Univ. of Chicago):
    • Morning
    • Transparency
    • Field
    • Table
    • Rear Window
    • Untitled: Part One
    • This Side of Paradise
  • Le cercle rouge - Jean-Pierre Melville (Music Box)
  • Bildnis einer Trinkerin [Ticket of No Return] - Ulrike Ottinger ("New German Cinema" class @ UofC Film Studies Center)
  • Greed - Erich von Stroheim (Music Box)
  • High School - Frederick Wiseman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Titicut Follies - Frederick Wiseman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "Films by Jack Smith & Ron Rice" (Film Studies Center @ Univ. of Chicago):
    • Chumlum - Ron Rice
    • Scotch Tape - Jack Smith
    • Overstimulated - Jack Smith
    • I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo - Jack Smith
    • The Flower Thief - Ron Rice
         
  • 42nd Street - Lloyd Bacon (DVD)
  • Monsieur Verdoux - Charles Chaplin (DVD)
  • Hearts of the World - D.W. Griffith (CATV)
  • Angel Face - Otto Preminger (CATV)
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - Walter Ruttmann (DVD)
  • Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (DVD)