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Listening
- Archer Prewitt; Architecture in Helsinki; Liz Payne & Ben Vida @
Empty Bottle
- MusicNOW [cond.
Kent Nagano] @ Symphony Center:
- Galina Ustvol'skaya, "Symphony No. 4 (Prayer)"
- Györgi Ligeti, "Etudes No. 2, 4, 13 for Piano" [Amy
Dissanayake]
- David Rakowski, "Etudes No. 51, 37, 40 for Piano" [Amy
Dissanayake]
- Kurt Rohde, "Double Trouble"
- Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Vandermark 5 @ Empty Bottle
- "Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music":
- Brian Dibblee String Quartet
- Erik Friedlander solo
- Erik Friedlander with Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy
- Anthony Coleman/Klaas Heckmann/Frank Rosaly
- Kent Kessler Ensemble with Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Aram Shelton
- Ken Vandermark/Klaas Heckmann duo
- Fred Anderson solo; with Harrison Bankhead & Isaiah Spencer @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Kayhan Kalhor Ensemble @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Fred Anderson Trio; Von Freeman Quartet @ HotHouse
- George Antheil [Benedikt Koehlen] - Bad Boy's Piano Music (Col Legno)
- Dean/Riley/Rogers/Sanders - All the Tradition (Slam)
- Johnny Dyani Quartet - Song for Biko (SteepleChase)
- Douglas Ewart & Inventions Clarinet Choir - Angles of Entrance
(Arawak)
- Olivier Messiaen [InterContemporain Ensemble] - "Sept Haikai"
et al (Montaigne)
- The New York Composers Orchestra - First Program in Standard Time (New
World)
- Django Reinhardt - Volume 2: Paris and London, 1937-1948 (JSP)
- Wadada Leo Smith - Kabell Years: 1971-1979 (Tzadik)
- Art Tatum - Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces, discs 4-7 (Pablo)
- various artists - Columbia: The Vallenato (Ocora)
Reading
- From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future -
Stanley Aronowitz
- Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers - Stan Brakhage
- Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement - Suzan Erem
- Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions - Martha Nussbaum
- Arrowroot - Juni'chiro Tanizaki
- The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi - Juni'chiro Tanizaki
Watching
- Crimson Gold - Jafar Panahi (Music Box)
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Quentin Tarantino (City North 14)
- Dogville - Lars von Trier (Landmark Century Centre)
- Point Blank - John Boorman (Block Cinema)
- Vredens Dag [Day of Wrath] - Carl Theodor Dreyer (Block Cinema)
- The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke (Gene Siskel Film Center)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. - Barbara Kopple (Gene Siskel Film Center)
- Archangel - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
- Heart of the World [short] - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - Russ Meyer (Doc Films)
- The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges (Gene Siskel Film Center)
- Black Girl - Ousmane Sembene (Block Cinema)
- Borom sarret [short] - Ousmane Sembene (Block Cinema)
- Wavelength - Michael Snow (Block Cinema)
- "Experimental Film Conference" @ UofC Film Studies Center:
- Pause! - Peter Kubelka
- Geography of the Body - William Maas
- Excited Turkeys - William Maas
- A Valentine for Marie - William Maas & John Hawkins
- Hurry! Hurry! - Marie Menken
- Go Go Go - Marie Menken
- Arabesque for Kenneth Anger - Marie Menken
- The Man Who Invented Gold - Christopher Maclaine
- Where Did Our Love Go? - Warren Sonbert
- Noblesse Oblige - Warren Sonbert
- The Cup and the Lip - Warren Sonbert
- Friendly Witness - Warren Sonbert
- Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich (DVD)
- Les vampires episodes 1-5 - Louis Feuillade (DVD)
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