Sep 2005 Doings
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Listening

  • Eddie Palmieri & Brian Lynch @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Roscoe Mitchell Chicago Quartet [with Corey Wilkes, Harrison Bankhead, Vincent Davis] @ HotHouse
  • Burton Greene & Hanah Jon Taylor @ Hot House
  • "Chicago Jazz Festival" @ Grant Park:
    • Michael Zerang solo
    • Chicago Overtones [Daniele D'Agaro, Jeb Bishop, Kent Kessler, Robert Barry]
    • Ballin' the Jack
    • Great Black Music Ensemble
  • Fred Anderson, Harrison Bankhead & Hamid Drake trio + jam session @ Velvet Lounge
  • FME [Ken Vandermark, Nate McBride, Paal Nilsson Love] @ Empty Bottle
  • "Anthony Braxton at 60" @ Cromwell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University:
    • Anthony Braxton (as) solo
    • Comp. 103 for 7 trumpets [Taylor Ho Bynum, Tim Byrnes, Peter Evans, Sam Hoyt, John McDonough, Kelly Pratt, Nate Wooley] 
    • Diamond/Curtain Wall Trio [Anthony Braxton (cb-sx, bsx, bar), Taylor Ho Bynum (brass), Tom Crean (g)]
    • Ghost Trance 12tet [Anthony Braxton (as, sss, elec), Taylor Ho Bynum (brass), Andrew Raffo Dewar (ss, C-mel-sx, cl), Elizabeth Panzer (harp), Jessica Pavone (vla, vln), Jane Rigler (fl), Reut Regev (tb), Jay Rozen (tba), Sara Schoenbeck (bsn), Aaron Siegel (perc), Carl Testa (b, bcl), Libby Van Cleve (oboes)]
  • Fe-mail [Maja Ratkje & Hild Sofie Tajford]; Mike Svoboda @ UofC Renaissance Society
  • Domenico +2 @ Borders on State (World Music Festival)
  • "The Wire Adventures in Modern Music Festival" @ Empty Bottle:
    • Hisham Bharoocha, Tyondai Braxton & Robert Lowe
    • Diverse
    • Mandarin Movie [Rob Mazurek, Steve Swell, Alan Licht, Matt Lux, Jason Ajemian, Tim Daisy, Frank Rosaly]
  • John Cage's MUSICircus @ Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Vandermark 5 @ Green Mill

Reading

  • The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene

Watching

  • 2046 (Wong Kar-wei, 2004) @ Music Box
  • Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) @ Landmark Century Centre
  • "Various Visions" @ Chicago Underground Film Festival at Music Box:
    • Still Life w/Fruit (Eric Fleischer, 2005)
    • Milk and Honey (Kate McCabe, 2004)
    • Catalog (Stephanie Barber, 2005)
    • Dream (Tom Jarmusch, 1995/2004)
    • Take My Life Please or a List of Things to Do Today in One Act (Kelly Oliver & Keary Rosen, 2004, video)
    • Dead People (Roger Deutsch, 2003, 16mm on video)
    • What I'm Looking For (Shelly Silver, 2004, video)
        
  • "The Religious Imagination in Cinema: Introductory Program" @ Gene Siskel Film Center
    • All My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966)
    • Valse Triste (Bruce Conner, 1979)
    • Watersmith (Will Hindle, 1968)
    • "La ricotta" (Pier Paolo Pasolini) from Rogopag (omnibus, 1963)