Sep 2003 Doings
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Listening

  • The Ex with Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark & ZU @ Empty Bottle
  • "Chicago World Music Festival":
    • Friends of the Gamelan @ Chicago Cultural Center
    • Habibullah Wardak & Puran Vyas @ Chicago Cultural Center
    • Radio Maqam @ Chicago Cultural Center
    • Razbar Ensemble @ Daley Plaza
    • Taller de Compas de Almanjayar @ Museum of Broadcast Communications
    • Super Uba y Su Conjunto @ Museum of Broadcast Communications
    • Kushal Das & Samar Saha @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Hamid Drake solo @ Fine Arts Building
  • Ornette Coleman Quartet @ Symphony Center
  • Kahil El-Zabar conducting Bluiett, Ari Brown, Ernest Dawkins, Malachi Favors, Isaiah Jackson, Dushun Moseley, Duke Payne, Avreeayl Ra, Malachi Thompson @ Ascension Loft
  • John Butcher solo @ home of Fred Lonberg-Holm
  • "BOXmedia Under the Wire Festival" @ Heaven Gallery:
    • Kyle Bruckmann
    • Jason Soliday
    • Jim Baker
    • Bruckmann/Soliday/Baker
  • "The Wire Adventures in Modern Music Festival" @ Empty Bottle:
    • Wolf Eyes
    • Themselves
    • Black Dice
    • Kim Hiorthøy
    • Fred Anderson, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake
    • James Chance & Terminal City
    • High Priest
    • Text of Light [Glenn Kotche, Alan Licht, Doug McCombs, Marina Rosenfeld, films by Stan Brakhage]
    • Lightning Bolt
    • Stewart Walker
    • Califone
    • Six Organs of Admittance
    • Michael Zerang, Jim Baker, Kyle Bruckmann
    • Michael Gira
         
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reese and the Smooth Ones (Fuel 2000)
  • Sidney Bechet - At Storyville (1201 Music)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven [Quartetto Italiano] - The Late Quartets vol. 1 (Philips)
  • Jaap Blonk - Vocalor (Staalplaat)
  • Anthony Braxton - Two Compositions (Trio) 1998 (Leo)
  • R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim (Fat Possum)
  • Jaki Byard - Sunshine of My Soul (Prestige/OJC)
  • Tristram Cary - Soundings: Electroacoustic Works 1955-1996 (Tall Poppies)
  • Elmo Hope Ensemble - Sounds from Rikers Island (Fresh Sound)
  • ICP Orchestra - Jubilee Varia (hatOLOGY) 
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings (Mercury)
  • Jason Moran - Black Stars (Blue Note)
  • Orchestra Baobab - Bamba (Stern's Africa)
  • Sergei Prokofiev [Elena Varvarova] - Sonatas 3 & 6 (Le Chant du Monde)
  • Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites (Evidence)
  • This Heat - Made Available: John Peel Sessions (These)
  • Ken Vandermark/Brian Dibblee - Duets (Future Reference)
  • Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet - Breakthrough! (32 Jazz)
  • Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High (ECM)
  • various artists - Deep Concentration (Om)
  • various artists - Éthiopiques 3 (Buda Musique)

Reading

  • Charles Ives and His Music - Henry Cowell
  • Film Form: Essays in Film Theory - Sergei Eisenstein
  • Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism - Daniel Harris
  • Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 - P. Adams Sitney
  • Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography
  • Richard Serra - Hal Foster, ed.
  • American Magus: Harry Smith, a Modern Alchemist - Paola Igliori, ed.

Watching

  • The School of Rock - Richard Linklater (Doc Films)
  • "Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival" program (Columbia College):
    • The Chinese Series - Stan Brakhage
    • What Goes Up - Robert Breer
    • Megalopolis - Jim Jennings
    • Film Number 15: Untitled Seminole Patchwork Film - Harry Smith
    • A Tom Tom Chaser [video] - Ken Jacobs
    • WVLNT (Wavelength [video] - Michael Snow
    • Worst Case Scenario [video] - John Smith
    • Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables) [video] - Owen Land
  • "Recent Work by Julie Murray" (Onion City Festival @ Chicago Filmmakers):
    • If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water
    • I Began to Wish
    • Untitled (Blood)
    • Micromoth
    • Binoculate [audio]
    • Otherrehto [video]
    • Fl. oz.
    • Untitled (light)
    • + Slime Mold: Plant or Animal? - Thomas J. Stanton
  • "Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival" program (Chicago Filmmakers):
    • Endless Present: Biography of an Unknown Filmmaker, a film by Cornealius Thistle - Kathryn Ramey
    • Threnody [video] - Janis Crystal Lipzin
    • Lost and Found (Study for an Iceland Project #1) - Pablo de Ocampo
    • I Am a Conjuror [video] - Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
    • Metaphysical Education - Thad Povey
    • Praise! Praise!! Praise!!! [video] - Mizuki Akihama
    • Collaborating with the Enemy [video] - Kyle Harris
  • "Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival" program (Chicago Filmmakers):
    • Marvelous Creatures [video] - Wago Kreider
    • Studies for Serene Velocity [video] - Ichiro Sueoka
    • Nature Walk [video] - Sarah Hanssen
    • The Galilean Satellites: Europa - Courtney Hoskins
    • Arrêté - Bernhard Schreiner
    • And Then... - Abraham Ravett
    • For to There - Pablo de Ocampo
    • old dam flood 82 april [video] - Chris Rice
    • Untitled 2002 - Adele Friedman
    • Sun [video] - Siegfried Fruhauf
    • White Blight Manifesto [video] - Paul Lloyd Sargent
    • Go Fall Apart [video] - Edward Rankus
  • "Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival" program (Chicago Filmmakers):
    • I Am Lost to the World [Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen] - Ichiro Sueoka
    • Without Title [video] - Eva Teppe
    • Splinters [video] - Luis Recoder
    • I Am a Boyband [video] - Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
    • Switch Center - Ericka Beckman
    • Long Live His Majesty [video] - Kyung Man Kim
    • Calcutta Intersection [video] - Alfred Guzzetti
    • Feathered Water [video] - Joanna Griffin
    • Letters Are Yellow - Jennifer Fieber
    • Motel Flora [video] - Michael Robinson
    • Like All Bad Men He Looks Attractive [video] - Michele Smith
         
  • Dead Birds - Robert Gardner (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Suzaku - Naomi Kawase (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (Doc Films)
  • Heavenly Creatures - Jack Smith (Doc Films)
  • The Leopard - Luchino Visconti (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai (Block Cinema)
       
  • Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Eisenstein (DVD)
  • Out of the Blue - Dennis Hopper (DVD)