BloodLust!

The busy week ahead:

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Thursday February 23
Wheaton Grand Theater
123 N. Hale Street
Wheaton, IL 60187
630.221.0667
http://www.wheatongrand.net/
Doors: 7:30 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
$7.00
All Ages
BLOODYMINDED
appearing with
Is
Climax Denial (Milwaukee, WI)
Crippled Insectual (AKA Vertonen + Insect Deli)

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Friday February 24
James Brown Rape Tank
1630 N. Oakley (enter in back)
Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.roxannejeanpolise.com/
Show: 9:00 PM Sharp
$5.00 donation for out of town bands
All Ages
Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED screamer, solo - multiple microphone madness)
appearing with
Sisprum Vish (OH)
Charlie Draheim (MI)
Wigwam (MI)
Mildew (WI)
Roxanne Jean Polise/Rebel Griswold/Silvum

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Saturday February 25
WHPK Pictures and Sound Festival
The University of Chicago Film Studies Center
5811 South Ellis Ave.
Cobb Hall 307
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.8596
http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/
7:00 PM
Mark Solotroff
appearing with
LSDudes
Brian Labycz (AKA Koura)
Tangleweed
Note: I will be playing to two very rhythmic and very different short films: "Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street" (1905) by G. W. "Billy" Blitzer and "The Dante Quartet" (1987) by Stan Brakhage. My soundtracks will use heavily distorted analog drum machine, sort of in the style of the early- to mid-1980s Madrid scene (Uvegraf, Esplendor Geometrico, Macromassa, etc.)

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From: http://whpk.uchicago.edu/events/

Pictures and Sounds 2006

Saturday, February 25, 2006, 7:00 PM at Cobb Hall (5811 S. Ellis), Room 307

WHPK and the Film Studies Center are proud to present Pictures and Sounds, an annual multimedia event that presents silent films with live musical accompaniment. This year’s program promises to be spectacular, as a quartet of improvisers will be creating soundtracks to a group of films that represent over as century of experimental cinema. The films this year (all projected from 16 millimeter prints) are as diverse and fascinating as the musical artists who will be interpreting them. Mark Solotroff will be performing to Interior New York Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. by GW “Billy” Blitzer and The Dante Quartet by Stan Brakhage, Koura will be performing to Fog Line by Larry Gottheim, the LSDudes will accompany Joystick by Jeff Hudson, and Tangleweed will play to H20 by Ralph Steiner.

Mark Solotroff is a Chicago-based artist who works in visual, sound, and performance mediums. As a sound artist/musician, he founded the experimental noise band Intrinsic Action in 1984. His current band, BLOODYMINDED, was formed in New York, in 1995, when Intrinsic Action came to an end. Solotroff has recorded solo work under his own name, as well as under the names Surgical Stainless Steel and Super Eight Loop, and he has recently become more actively engaged in collaborations with a diverse group of performers and artists. For Pictures and Sounds, he has chosen to work in an entirely uncharacteristically rhythmic manner, primarily dictated by the films that he has chosen, and partially in homage to the frequently overlooked mid-1980’s Madrid, Spain, industrial scene, which included a number of distinctive artists often working with primitive, heavily distorted beats (e.g. Esplendor Geometrico, Comando Bruno, Macromassa, Depósito Dental, Recursos Ajenos, and Interacción). Solotroff’s musical activity can be charted via http://bloodlust.blogspot.com/.

The LSDudes formed around 1998. Jeff Hudson was messing around with electronic music using some very old keyboards and a Commodore computer and some friends joined in to see what would happen. “Drug movies” such as Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls provided the inspiration for the original songs. As time went on, the band moved on to composing songs about early video games and performing live accompanied by an Atari console’s primitive video game music. Video has always been a strong component of the LSDude’s show; every song they perform is accompanied by its own video. Some are video game screens, some are abstract psychedelic images, and some are tightly-edited collages of movie clips. The current band members are: Jeff Hudson (video, keyboard, beats, vocals), Rich Vogel (keyboards, bass guitar, vocals), and Chris Eddy (guitar). Photos, music samples, press clippings, and additional info can be found at http://www.lsdudes.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/lsdudes.

Currently located in Chicago (following an extended period in Gifu, Japan), Brian Labycz, also known as Koura, is an experimental artist primarily working with sound and performative media. With a background in Western and Japanese classical performance, his focus is on improvisation and live performance as well as composition and installation works. He draws from a range of sources utilizing field recordings, acoustic instruments, digital/analog manipulations, traditional systems, and interactive media to produce and explore various experiential forms. Brian has performed and exhibited in the US and Japan and has worked/performed with Bernhard Gal, Carl Stone, Christophe Charles, Dale Lloyd, Yannick Dauby, Kikuchi Yukinori, Yao Bin, TV Pow, and Sawako. He is actively involved in organizing performances/exhibitions in Chicago and has released works on and/oar, tiramizu, stasisfield, foreign lands, and boxmedia.

Tangleweed is a five-man acoustic Americana group from Chicago. Their new CD is called Just a Spoonful. Tangleweed formed after Ryan Fisher (banjo), Paul Wargaski (upright bass), and Billy Oh (fiddle) met on the set of the Jeff-nominated local theatre production The Cotton Patch Gospels. Once the production closed, the trio agreed there was a chemistry that should be explored further, and Tangleweed was born. Kenneth Rainey (mandolin, veteran of Chicago’s Kennett Brothers) was added to the line-up after he and Fisher found a common bond when they were admonished at a local bluegrass jam for attempting a Thelonious Monk tune. Rainey’s neighbor Scott Judd (long-time acoustic guitarist and cofounder of local psych-rock trio Magnetosphere) soon sat in at one of the band’s Sunday evening sets at Metropolis Coffee House, and was added as a permanent member then and there. The band has been sharpening their live sets by playing regularly in Chicago since early summer 2004, and has performed at a myriad of area venues, including the Hideout, Martyr’s, and Navy Pier. If the recent standing ovations are any indication, this band is a welcome breath of fresh air for local lovers of stomping bluegrass, banjo-jazz, and high lonesome harmonies. Their website can be found at http://www.tangleweed.org/.

The Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago is located in Cobb Hall, room 307, at 5811 South Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL (773-702-8596 or http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/ for directions). Cobb Hall, on the U. of C. campus Quadrangle, is located ½ block north of the Midway Plaisance. The building is directly across from the Hospital Brain Research Pavilion and just south of the Administration Building. Enter Cobb Hall on the north side. Ample parking is available on the Midway and 59th Street. This is a free, all-ages event, and the general public is welcome.

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