Events

9:00 PM, $7 suggested

Elastic Arts
2830 N Milwaukee

Songwriter Showcase and Open Mic featuring Rock Falls and Barilium

Rockfalls, the musical vehicle for songwriter Annie Reese, performs with a hushed, soulful delivery that belies a massive emotional power. Her original compositions are evocative of the croonings of Roy Orbison and Jeff Buckley as well as the intimacy of Iron and Wine, Mazzy Star, and Nina Nastasia. From the hopeful sway of “Message in a Bottle” to the longing of “Tonight, Tonight” her voice is at once timeless and immediate.

Barilium is named for a naturally occurring element in gas form, which was named for its narcissistic discoverer. Barillium’s music is worldly and whimsical. The cadence is soft, but lively, and the melodies are beautiful and slightly strange.

9:00 PM, Free

Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont

Archaeology of Chicago Music 101

October’s 101 will feature Rob Sevier (Numero Group)
Steve Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave (Secret HIstory of Chicago Music)to discuss the history of Chicago music. Both are venerated historians of Chicago’s music, particularly those musicians and songs that most people have forgotten about or never knew about. Please come out to learn the history you never knew.

7:30 PM, $12 suggested

The Viaduct Theater
3111 N Western Ave

Physics for Listeners: a Composer's Concert

Homeroom brings together six composers, three jazz and three contemporary classical, to write and arrange music for a single ensemble. Keefe Jackson, Frank Rosaly, Guillermo Gregorio, Eric Malmquist, James Falzone and Kyle Vegter will be featured.

Homeroom recognizes that Chicago has two thriving music scenes in improvised jazz and contemporary classical. But these two rarely interact. Our goal is a to create a concert of musical dialogue featuring composers and musicians from both disciplines. With a single ensemble performing all the composers’ works, the audience will gain insight into the defining similarities and differences amongst the composers.

7:30 PM, $12 suggested

The Viaduct Theater
3111 N Western Ave

Physics for Listeners: a Composer's Concert

Homeroom brings together six composers, three jazz and three contemporary classical, to write and arrange music for a single ensemble. Keefe Jackson, Frank Rosaly, Guillermo Gregorio, Eric Malmquist, James Falzone and Kyle Vegter will be featured.

Homeroom recognizes that Chicago has two thriving music scenes in improvised jazz and contemporary classical. But these two rarely interact. Our goal is a to create a concert of musical dialogue featuring composers and musicians from both disciplines. With a single ensemble performing all the composers’ works, the audience will gain insight into the defining similarities and differences amoungst the composers.

7:00 PM, Free

Nighingale
1084 N Milwaukee

YouTube Assembly with Lori Felker and Nicholas O'Brien

Oh Snap! Another YouTube Assembly featuring Lori Felker and Nicholas O’Brien. Felker and O’Brien will be presenting on the topic of DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER, delving into many different layers of parody, slander, and character hacking.

The night will involve many different depictions and reenactments, all piled together to explore how YouTube has effected and influenced the growing unstable nature of self-dom and common character… types. They will weave a dense history that will at once seem familiar but will also unravel as the night goes on. The event aims to leave viewers uncertain where origins and copies begin and end, eventually complicating the otherwise formulaic paradigms of what constitutes authentic portraits of people and their behaviors.

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Lori studied English Literature and German as an undergraduate, which then led her to study Film Studies in Berlin on a Fulbright (2000). Increasingly interested in combining her love of writing and film history with creativity & handcraft, she eventually took up filmmaking in 2001 by taking some night classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. After sliding into the film/media production world and sustaining that for a few years, she up and went to graduate school for Film Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2007). She currently lives, makes films/videos, teaches, projects, volunteers for film festivals, and compulsively collaborates in Chicago.

Nicholas O’Brien is interested in different layers of digital experience and the false dichtomy that lies between what is “real” and “virtual.” He relates the relationship between land and architectural space as belonging to the same virtuality that takes place in the process of memory/remembering. These approaches are all exploring different modes of identity through a multi-disciplinary newMedia practice. While maintaining equal interest in history (or hystories) and “amateur” culture (a non-judgmental claim), Nicholas hopes to address some of the mythic expectations and manifestations that happen in contemporary media representations. His work has been included in multiple national and international venues including The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Xth Biennial in Lyon net art project mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com, Lampo, Tank.tv, and the Centro Multimedia in Mexico City. He currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado and on the Internet.See More