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Sabertooth
Steven Wirth
under construction



David Patterson




Danielle Haney


A modern dance/performance art piece


Steven Tod


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


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

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


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

Original piano compositions with performance art/dance.


Irina Feoktistova


Piano solo


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.


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

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


Third Coast Percussion
Peter Martin


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


Sonicon
http://www.jcloewe.com

J.C. Loewe & Chris Hite

Improvisational Laptop Duo



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.


Bill MacKay
http://www.billmackay.com



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

We Can and We Must
Podcast/Radio-Drama.


Jeff Abell


John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano


Eric Leonardson
http://www.ericleonardson.org

Springboard
Solo Improvisation


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.


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



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



Wannapa P-Eubanks


Manimal [World Premier]
Butoh


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

Kaiju Daiko


Alexa Chermak


Dance Improvisation


Merkaba
Eric Gelehrter


Merkaba Live Visuals
live video and solo piano


Sid Samberg


Composer-pianist playing original compositions.


gallery:abstractblack
Jayve Montgomery
www.jayvejohnmontgomery.com

The Negro with the Trumpet at His Lips


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.


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



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



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



Mahjabeen Karim




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.


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



Big Kitchen
Anthony Tabor




Marita Bolles


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


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

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


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



Joshua Manchester
http://www.joshuamanchester.com

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


Chicago Moving Company
Nana Shinelfug




dissonant memoir
Neal Gustafson


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


Guillermo Gregorio


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



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.


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.


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

Single Beauty


Lois Veenhoven Guderian


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


Carole McCurdy


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


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



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

7th Kind - Chicago-based art rock band


Jonathan Hey




Roni Bomboni
http://www.gmaric.com



Aleksander Garibashvili




Performance-Art-Society
Anthony Cobb


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


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

The Chance Operations Collective of Kalamazoo
Four6 by John Cage


Dr. Silly
Carl R. Hatfield


Dr. Silly


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



Flag Ceremony
Alicia Poot


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


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

Works for chamber ensemble.


(GD)SEMC New Music Trio
Eric Malmquist




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

Classic rock with a blues undertone.


End of the World Band
Abram Gibson


End of the World Band


Gomez-Farr Project
Bruce Gomez


Acoustic Original Pop Duo


Roycemore School (Upper School Choir)
Rachel Troy




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

free-improvisation group


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



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



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

Water Walk by John Cage


MIC Suzuki Guitar Ensemble
Julia Miller


Children's Classical guitar group


Striation Industries
Frank Van Duerm
espressoblood@gmail.com


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


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

COLOUR


Nicholas DePeder


Live Painting


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

Chicago Bass Ensemble


Tony Chen




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

http://www.myspace.com/sinnott1


HOWLOOSEANATION
Mark Baldridge


improvised music and performance, 4 to 8 people.


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

Dahui- Ensemble du Rhythm


TSAI-YUN HUANG




Ben Kolak




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.


Aaron Zarzutzki


Improvised percussion triggered by electronics


Chris Powers


Transformations and generations of sounds ...


John Holzaepfel




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



Christopher Preissing
http://www.chicagocomposers.org

Flute/text improvisation duo.


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



Saalik Ziyad
http://www.the5after7project.com

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



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



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

RodneyLee and the Intuitive Afro Collage


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

Musically Inspired Theatrical Movement


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

pianonoise.
foundsound noise.
householdimplementnoise.



Steve Butters


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


James Falzone
http://www.allosmusica.org

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


Tess Dworman




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

juggling, balancing globes, clowns, german wheel


Marjorie Rusche
http://www.marjorierusche.com

Musical and movement transitions


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


Kin Kon
Robbie Hamilton




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

Marci Ann
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance!!


David Robison


Twelve tone a cappella vocal music.


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



Jennifer Karmin
http://www.antigravitysurprise.org



Preston Klik's Synphoric OM Choir
Preston Klik


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


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

An up and coming chicago rock/latin band.


Gail Fried




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



Bella Fuegas
http://myspace.com/bellafuegas



Stringcode
Timothy Edwards


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


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

Contemporary American Bellydance


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

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


Janet Schmid


lopsided tap dance with obstacles


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



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

http://margaritabenitez.com


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

Jane Boxall
solo marimba


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

Urban R&B/soul vocalist


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.


Jessica Hudson




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

Electro-acoustic free form solo performance.


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.


FIGORA
Nate Euhus


FIGORA
PARTY NOISE!


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

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


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



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

The Official Back-Up Singer to the John Cage Musicircus


The Chicago Cobra Ensemble
Nick Anaya




John Flynn


Music with spoken word.





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