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Shake Rattle and Roll

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:43:53 -0500

Start: 09/12/2008 - 9:00pm

End: 09/12/2008 - 11:59pm

A benefit for Young's/Parkinson's Research. More TBA including Karaoke! $5-10 suggested donation. Brought to by Wor.

PROTEST HEAVEN 9/13: Agathe Max + Chris Brokaw

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:12:44 -0500

Start: 09/13/2008 - 10:00pm

End: 09/13/2008 - 10:00pm

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

Agathe Max, solo violin (Lyon, France)

Chris Brokaw (Boston)

About the artists:

After 10 years of conventional classical music, AGATHE MAX started to improvise and develop a large range of different sounds with the accoustic violin. She's played with several bands, from pirate's performances with Arbrupt to gypsy blues folk music with Brown Recluse, with whom she did a US tour during the summer of 2005. At that time, she met the performer Rachel Rosenthal in her Los Angeles studio. She describes this as "the deepest human experience as an artistic point of view."

On her current project: "I've started this solo violin project in 2005 and since then i try to go further and further in this experiment that gives lots of possibilities."

She also does collaborations with Yoko Higashi (voices and effects) and actors, dancers (Juha Marsalo, Carolyn Carlson), videos (facteur prod)...

http://www.agathemax.com

CHRIS BROKAW was born and raised in and around new york city. after attending oberlin college, he moved to boston, massachusetts, where he continues to reside.
in 1990, he began recording and performing internationally with CODEINE, with whom he played drums and guitar on 2 records for SUB-POP. in 1992, he left that band to pursue songwriting, singing and guitar playing with COME, who recorded four albums for MATADOR and toured internationally over the course of 10 years.

since 2002, chris has recorded four solo albums: the instrumental "RED CITIES" (ATAVISTIC/KIMCHEE/12XU, 2002), the solo acoustic "WANDERING AS WATER"(NORMAL, 2004), the film score "I WAS BORN, BUT" (ATAVISTIC/12XU, 2004), and the rock/vocal "INCREDIBLE LOVE" (12XU/ROCK ACTION/ACUARELA, 2005).

http://www.chrisbrokaw.com

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5 suggested donation

Boombastic

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:26:30 -0500

Start: 09/14/2008 - 11:25am

End: 09/14/2008 - 11:25am

DJs

PROTEST HEAVEN 9/20: BAKER/JACKSON + OS + PATRICK NEAL BOWMAN + LAMONT/ZERANG

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:24:54 -0500

Start: 09/20/2008 - 9:00pm

End: 09/20/2008 - 9:00pm

A night packed to the brim with a diverse grouping of top-rate avant-garde acts from Chicago and beyond!

JIM BAKER AND KEEFE JACKSON, electronics, piano and reeds

PATRICK NEAL BOWMAN

BRUCE LAMONT AND MICHAEL ZERANG

Bruce Lamont / Michael Zerang Duo

Bruce Lamont joined yakuza in feb of 2000 and since the group has recorded 4 full lengths including their latest release "transmutations". He collaborates in various other projects with, e.g., dave rempis, fred lonberg-holm, kevin sharp, jeff parker, frank rosaly. Bruce has recorded wth the japanese black metal turned space-prog band sigh, east west blast test (on ipecac), ken vandermark for one of the next dalek records, jai-alai savant ( out now on GSL),cephalic carnage (relapse), minsk(relapse), Nachtmystium,and others. in july of 2006 he made is debut solo perfomance using a looper pedal and effects along with saxophones, guitar, voice, harp, and percussion. he has performed along side scott kelly (neurosis), battles, toby driver(kayo dot),OM, Daniel Higgs (lungfish), Lichens and appeared at the Relapse and Furniture record showcases @ the sxsw music festival.he has also jammed with stooges sax man steve mackay, the akron family,midnight snake, eugene robinson(oxbow),borbetomagus (recording out there somewhere), and teamed up with mark solotroff (bloodyminded, recording also out there somewhere) .in june 2007 he made his first offical solo debut (recorded by sanford parker) entitled "Feral Songs".
myspace.com/brucelamont

Michael Zerang has over sixty titles in his discography and has toured nationally and internationally since 1981 with and ever-widening pool of collaborators. He was the artistic director of the Link's Hall Performance Series from 1985-1989 where he produced over 300 concerts of jazz, traditional ethnic folk music, electronic music, and other forms of forward thinking music. He continued to produce concerts at Cafe Urbus Orbis from 1994-1996, and at his own space, The Candlestick Maker in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, from 2001 - 2005. He has taught as a guest artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance technique, sound design, and sound/music as it relates to puppetry; rhythmic analysis for dancers at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Northwestern University, and MoMing Dance and Arts Center; courses in Composer - Choreographer Collaborations at Northwestern University; music to children at The Jane Adams Hull House. He has held workshops in improvisational music and percussion technique and teaches private lessons in rhythmic analysis, music composition, and percussion technique.
myspace.com/michaelzerang

Bloomington, Indiana's dark side always sneaks in under the radar, ever present and ever fruitful... producing a few bands (and subsequent recordings) that blow a handful of minds and keep Bloomington pertinent to the underground as other bands continue to promote the city overground. OS produces a glorious muffled molasses sludge of sound. I am not so familiar with the 'doom' genre or whatever, but OS is one of the best of that sound I've heard, as well as seeping (slowly) into other genres I know full well about. And if you can't take the pace, play it at 45rpm. -drekka
myspace.com/lonsesomevalleyalchemist

Patrick Neal Bowman

Bowman's distinctly American experimentalism falls neatly alongside the traditions now explored so thoroughly by the likes of the Table of the Elements catalogue. Part electroacoustic improvisation, part cinematic eeriness, part Americana, Bowman's music rambles along and blooms slowly, like a dying walk in the desert.
myspace.com/patricknealbowman

Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker

Keefe Jackson is a saxophonist/clarinettist/composer. He arrived in Chicago in 2001 from his native Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has performed with many musicians, including Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Guillermo Gregorio, Jim Baker, Brian Dibblee, Jason Adasiewicz, Mike Reed, Todd Munnik, James Falzone, Ernst Karel, Jason Stein, Nori Tanaka, Matt Schneider, Jason Ajemian, Tatsuya Nakatani, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly, Nick Broste, Paul Hartsaw, Karl Seigfried, Kevin Davis, and Swiss musicians Marc Untern”hrer, Thomas Mejer, and many others. Ongoing groups include the Lucky 7s (Farragut, Lakeside Digital), the 774th Street Quartet (A Rare Thing, Bloody Murder Records), the Chicago Luzern Exchange (Several Lights, Delmark Records), and the Festival Quartet (Festival Quartet, Aspidistra Records). He also leads the large group Keefe Jackson's Project Project.

Jim Baker has been playing in and around Chicago as a pianist, keyboardist, and synthesist for more than two decades, mostly in improvisational contexts. He initially studied piano with Thomas Scott, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and studied composition with Morgan Powell and Herbert Brun at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
Jim can be seen and heard all over town, performing most regularly with Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt, at Hotti Biscotti each Tuesday night.

This (e)special(ly) BIG show starts at 9pm!
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5-10 suggested donation

Sean Twin Oaks Puppet Screening

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:34:27 -0500

Start: 09/26/2008 - 9:33pm

End: 09/26/2008 - 9:33pm

Sean Twin Oaks Puppet Screening

PROTEST HEAVEN 9/27: Lonberg-Holm/Hug/Mallozzi

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:21:18 -0500

Start: 09/27/2008 - 10:00pm

End: 09/27/2008 - 10:00pm

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello
Charlotte Hug, viola (Zurich/London)
Lou Mallozzi, electronics

CHARLOTTE HUG (born 1965) musician, composer, visual artist, lives in Zurich and London. She studied music and viola with Henrik Crafoord at the SMPV Berne and Paul Silverthorne in London, and received a training in "scenic design" at the University of Art and Design Zurich.

In addition to performing solo at international music festivals and in theatres and museums (at the Tage für Neue Musik in Zurich, the 10th LMC Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Feuer und Flamme Festival for Music in the Theatre at Kampnagel in Hamburg and the Festival internacional de creation en tiempo real at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid), Hug also collaborates with other artists.

Hug often seeks out unusual venues for her performances, places that lend surprising acoustic, visual or emotional accents to her playing. She has appeared in the icy caverns of the Rhône Glacier in the Upper Valais in Switzerland as well as in an acoustically insulated S&M torture chamber in Zurich's red light district. The labyrinthine subterranean passageways of the "House of Detention", a 250-year-old former dungeon in the London neighbourhood of Farringdon, have also played host to her productions.

Her work has been distinguished in a number of ways, with awards and grants, including a stipend from the Aargauer Kuratorium to study in London. The Swiss cultural funding agency Pro Helvetia supported the research necessary for her spatio-musical project with a composition prize; the work that emerged from this research, Sonorbit, was subsequently performed while she was artist in residence at the Kunstlabor forum:claque in Baden. 2004/05 she is "artist in residence" at the "Cité internationale des arts" Paris.

Charlotte Hug is a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra. She collaborates with other composers as well as with the Swiss Centre for Computer Musik and improvises, both freely and conceptually, with such performers as John Butcher, John Edwards, Phil Minton, Maggie Nicols, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Phil Wachsmann. Her domain encompasses the most diverse fields, including composition, improvisation, electro-acoustics, performance, music for film and musical theatre aswell as in visual art and sound installations.

http://www.myspace.com/fredlonbergholm
http://www.loumallozzi.com/
http://www.charlottehug.ch

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5 suggested donation