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Sid Yiddish W/$2 Cockroach
http://www.myspace.com/sid_yiddish

Suite For Furby On Shofar In D Minor

Sounds like rod mckuen on cactus juice.

More information: http://themishegasmaster.blogspot.com



Dahui
John Yost
http://www.drummingcircle.com

Dahui- Ensemble du Rhythm


Jennifer Karmin
http://www.antigravitysurprise.org



Laura Emelianoff and Right-Eye Rita
Laura Emelianoff
http://www.myspace.com/righteyerita

Laura Emelianoff and Right-Eye Rita
This acoustic duo of violin and Open Harp performs a series of short episodes built on verbal language, poetic meter, and semantic content in music.


James Falzone
http://www.allosmusica.org

James Falzone - Solo Clarinet
Solo pieces for normal, prepared and deconstructed clarinet.


GreenSugar
Julie Leonard
http://www.myspace.com/greensugarband

Classic rock with a blues undertone.


PROTMAN
Joe J Hahn
http://www.protman.com

PROTMAN
Custom applications to translate video game/controller info into midi for generating/sequencing sounds and samples.


The Tiny Mahler Orchestra
Leon Shernoff
http://www.tinymahler.com



John Kannenberg
http://www.johnkannenberg.com

A duo performance of "Score For John Cage" composed by the performers. Jim will be performing on synthesizer and processed guitar, John will be performing on synthesizer and laptop.

http://www.myspace.com/jschoenecker



Ben Kolak




Bonecrusher
Michelle Tupko & A D Jameson


Bonecrusher Anniversary Tour
During the performance, we will form a rock duo, teach ourselves how to play guitar, then play all our guitar rock hits. This will be our anniversary tour.


Christopher Preissing
http://www.chicagocomposers.org

Flute/text improvisation duo.


John Flynn


Music with spoken word.


Stephen Hastings-King
http://www.clairaudient.org

pianonoise.
foundsound noise.
householdimplementnoise.



Striation Industries
Frank Van Duerm
espressoblood@gmail.com


Johnny Tokyo
Twin Oscillators + Copper Touch plates + Delay Pedal + Amp


John Holzaepfel




Compliant
David Downs
http://www.myspace.com/compliant

Compliant
Compliant is a mixture of rock, punk, and industrial music.


Aleksander Garibashvili




Stringcode
Timothy Edwards


Stringcode
Stringcode is violinist/composer Tiffany Sevilla and laptop performer/composer Timothy Edwards.


The Chicago Cobra Ensemble
Nick Anaya




MIC Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
Julia Miller


Children's Classical guitar group


Sid Samberg


Composer-pianist playing original compositions.


Marjorie Rusche
http://www.marjorierusche.com

Musical and movement transitions


Sarah Weis
http://www.i-cubedhypermedia.com

The Official Back-Up Singer to the John Cage Musicircus


The Unknowns
Shaun Sinnott
stsinnott@gmail.com
http://myspace.com/sinnott1

http://www.myspace.com/sinnott1


7th Kind
Wilson Hogan
http://www.myspace.com/7thkind

7th Kind - Chicago-based art rock band


Brett Balogh
http://www.brettbalogh.com

Brett generates an shifting sonic landscape using his wide-band radio receivers, DIY radio transmitters and his aleatory compositional system for prepared radio.


Janet Schmid


lopsided tap dance with obstacles


David Robison


Twelve tone a cappella vocal music.


Preston Klik's Synphoric OM Choir
Preston Klik


A choir singing "om" with dijeridoo and sitar accompaniment, and a couple of dancers.


Travis Mingalone
http://www.myspace.com/engenderedspecies



Jeff Abell


John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano


Tony Chen




Northern Illinois University Percussion Group
Gregory Beyer
http://www.percussion.niu.edu



Aaron Zarzutzki


Improvised percussion triggered by electronics


The Uptown Strings
Ed Sullivan
http://www.myspace.com/theuptownstrings

The Uptown Strings, a non-traditional string quartet, plays Bistro Swing inspired by the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt featuring the soulful vocals of Martha Larson.



Ed Sullivan - bass

Han Vanderhill - guitar

Pat McClintock - guitar

Martha Larson - cello/vocals



Blayne Greiner


A one man masked paper-mache' aztek priest playing banjo (possibly with electronic backing or friends) singing songs about genetically modified horse racing, insidious forest rangers , and the CTA.


Nicholas DePeder


Live Painting


Gomez-Farr Project
Bruce Gomez


Acoustic Original Pop Duo


Roycemore School (Upper School Choir)
Rachel Troy




Slaughterhouse 5
Lico Saenz
http://www.piecesofchicago.com

Original compositions blending cultures and styles as diverse as the people of Chicago, including Funk, Jazz, Groove, Spoken Word, and Rock with ethnic percussion and a world music sensibility.


Jane Boxall
http://www.myspace.com/janeboxallmarimba

Jane Boxall
solo marimba


Danielle Haney


A modern dance/performance art piece


ecnDANCEWORKS
Erin Carlisle Norton
http://www.ecndanceworks.com

Single Beauty


End of the World Band
Abram Gibson


End of the World Band


Flag Ceremony
Alicia Poot


An original composition using multiple flutes, electric viola, and vibraphone.


Plasticene
Dexter Bullard
http://www.plasticene.com



HOWLOOSEANATION
Mark Baldridge


improvised music and performance, 4 to 8 people.


Big Kitchen
Anthony Tabor




The Chance Operations Collective of Kalamazoo
http://www.photomitch.com/chance_operations.htm

The Chance Operations Collective of Kalamazoo
Four6 by John Cage


gallery:abstractblack
Jayve Montgomery
www.jayvejohnmontgomery.com

The Negro with the Trumpet at His Lips


Back Pocket
Thomas Tabora
thomas_tabora@yahoo.com
http://www.myspace.com/backpocketsounds

An up and coming chicago rock/latin band.


Blank Line Collective
Amanda Lucas
http://www.blanklinecollective.com

Musically Inspired Theatrical Movement


Chicago Moving Company
Nana Shinelfug




Marci Ann
Marci Roesch
http://www.myspace.com/marciroesch

Marci Ann
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance!!


Sonic Inertia Performance Group
Matthew Coley
http://www.sonicinertia.com

SIPG will perform 3 works involving some combination and collaboration between live music, dance, and electronic media.


Dyadic
James Murray
http://www.collateralwork.blogspot.com

http://margaritabenitez.com


(GD)SEMC New Music Trio
Eric Malmquist




Eric Leonardson
http://www.ericleonardson.org

Springboard
Solo Improvisation


Dustin Monk


Experimental folk rock band delving into evangelicism and Captain Beefheart to free jazz and traditional appalachia. Root Shoot Leaf will melt your face and save your soul.


International Contemporary Ensemble
Phyllis Chen


The Uncaged Toy Piano
Music by Wolfe, Cage, Pertout, Chen for toy piano and electronics
Featuring surprise special guests on additional toy pianos and accordions



RodneyLee and the Intuitive Afro Collage
Rodney Jones
http://www.rodneyleejonesjr.com

RodneyLee and the Intuitive Afro Collage


OgreOgress Productions
Glenn Freeman
http://cdbaby.com/group/ogreogress



TSAI-YUN HUANG




Julian Cumpian
http://www.myspace.com/hooly777



Jonathan Hey




Irina Feoktistova


Piano solo


Bill MacKay
http://www.billmackay.com



Linda M. Smith
http://www.lindamsmith.com

"Tragedy to Triumph - The Story of Artemisia" is a multi-media performance piece combining original music, narration and video which explores the life and works about Artemisia Gentileschi,an extratraordinary 17th century female Italian painter.


We Can and We Must Podcast
Ryan Ingebritsen
http://www.wcawm.com

We Can and We Must
Podcast/Radio-Drama.


Charles Smith
http://www.myspace.com/53485862

Original piano compositions with performance art/dance.


Fifth House Ensemble
Melissa Snoza
melissa@fifth-house.com
http://www.fifth-house.com

Works for chamber ensemble.


Chicago Bass Ensemble
Jacque Harper
http://www.chicagobassensemble.com

Chicago Bass Ensemble


Sarah Weis
http://www.i-cubedhypermedia.com/sarah



Tess Dworman




Kin Kon
Robbie Hamilton




Third Coast Percussion
Peter Martin


Performing contemporary repertoire for percussion ensemble including John Cage's Third Construction (1941)


Roni Bomboni
http://www.gmaric.com



Peter Storms
http://www.peterstorms.com

Peter J. Storms (and friends?)
Showtunes, pop songs, and other familiar musical tropes deconstructed, destroyed, and demonstrated using found recordings, electronic manipulation, archaic and modern instruments, and the more obscure reaches of the human voice.


Monika Ekks
MK3redux@yahoo.com


Who Gets the Privilege of Disappointing Me Next?
An on going multi-media project documenting attempts to find healthy intimate relationships.


Sabertooth
Steven Wirth
under construction



Marita Bolles


Cage essays mixed with original essays about New Music read through a megaphone


Steve Butters


Steve Butters-Pan Chicago
Caribbean Favorites performed on tenor steel drum.


Daniel Fandino
http://www.myspace.com/danielfandino



Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Joshua Simonds
http://www.cyso.org



CUBE
Patricia Morehead
http://www.cubeensemble.com



Performance-Art-Society
Anthony Cobb


Performance-Art-Society
Speak now or... (forever)


Columbia College Chicago
Bart Bradfield
http://www.colum.edu



FIGORA
Nate Euhus


FIGORA
PARTY NOISE!


THE POW-WOWS
lauretta tagli
http://www.thepowwows.com



Steven Tod


stationary. dynamically variant. metallic strings. inductive coil. 120V powered am-plication...


Margaret Noble
http://www.myspace.com/margaretnoble

Electro-acoustic free form solo performance.


Alexa Chermak


Dance Improvisation


Kaiju Daiko
John Yost
http://www.drummingcircle.com

Kaiju Daiko


Bella Fuegas
http://myspace.com/bellafuegas



Merkaba
Eric Gelehrter


Merkaba Live Visuals
live video and solo piano


Jessica Hudson




backGammon
Stephen Syverud
http://myspace.com/bkgmn

Free Improvisation Ensemble featuring electronics, computers, acoustic instruments, voice


CircEsteem
Quenby Dolgushkin
http://www.circesteem.org

juggling, balancing globes, clowns, german wheel


Marvin Tate
http://www.frameofirreverance.com/marvin_tate

Original spoken word/songs while accompanied by a minimalist musical landscape.


Gunnelpumpers
Douglas Johnson
http://www.myspace.com/gunnelpumpers

free-improvisation group


All Systems Halt
Ron Gavrilovic
http://www.myspace.com/allsystemshalt

A multimedia show including electronica - Industrial - Techno - Trance.


Sonicon
http://www.jcloewe.com

J.C. Loewe & Chris Hite

Improvisational Laptop Duo



Chris Powers


Transformations and generations of sounds ...


Carole McCurdy


DJ plays tandas of classic Argentine tango, vals, and milonga for those who wish to dance.


Guillermo Gregorio


Miscellaneous Cage scores and some of G. Gregorio's scores.
G. Gregorio (clarinet, composer) and Christopher Lange (live electronics)



Ginger Punch
Anya Solotaire
http://www.myspace.com/gingerpunchsucks



dissonant memoir
Neal Gustafson


Selection of piano works that utilize special effects in the vain of Cage


Ron Terman
http://www.myspace.com/belmondos



dal niente
Kirsten Broberg
http://www.dalniente.com

Water Walk by John Cage


New Millennium Orchestra
Dominic Johnson
http://www.nmorchestra.org

An ensemble of improvisers from the NMO will conjure up a site-specific sound selection.


Gail Fried




The Navel Academy
TJ Ducote
sanuranavelacademy.com (under construction)

Contemporary American Bellydance


Saalik Ziyad
http://www.the5after7project.com

A group of singers will come together to sing various styles of music in a improvisational free style.



Joshua Manchester
http://www.joshuamanchester.com

Chance-driven percussionist performing novel, virtuosity-proof instruments.


Mahjabeen Karim




Wannapa P-Eubanks


Manimal [World Premier]
Butoh


Lois Veenhoven Guderian


Mix and Match: Songs, piano pieces and musical theatre numbers by Lois Veenhoven Guderian.


Beatriz Albuquerque
http://www.beatrizalbuquerque.web.pt

COLOUR


LesterJAY
Lester Jenkins Jr
http://myspace.com/lesterjay

Urban R&B/soul vocalist


David Patterson




Silverspace/Asimina
Asimina Chremos
http://www.asiminachremosdance.net



Dr. Silly
Carl R. Hatfield


Dr. Silly





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