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ChiBlog Roundup:Music & Arts 02/14/2013

February 14th, 2013 General Tags:

Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers.

  • In Rotation: Audio engineer Tim Iseler on "Darth Vader’s Cock and Balls"

    Audio engineers Tim Iseler and Jeremy Lemos on “Darth Vader’s Cock and Balls” and the Dirty Projectors at the Sydney Opera
    by Miles Raymer
    Miles Raymer,
    Reader music writer, is obsessed with . . . Townes Van Zandt, Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 For a bunch of demos and outtakes from aborted sessions, Sunshine Boy is surprisingly revelatory, as well as infinitely more listenable than such things usually are.…

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  • Virtuosity without borders

    Violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt combines avant-garde pop, contemporary classical, and dreams in a new commissioned work for ICE.
    by Peter Margasak
    Violinist, vocalist, and composer Carla Kihlstedt has traversed styles and defied hierarchies for her entire career. She came into her own in the Bay Area in the mid-90s and now lives near Boston, teaching improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music.…

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  • Carla Kihlstedt’s At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire

    This is video of all nine movements from last month’s premiere at the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York City.

    Saturday at the MCA, violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt will give the Chicago premiere of the nine-part song cycle At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire, accompanied by nine members of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Kihlstedt wrote the piece as a 2013 participant in the ensemble’s ICElab commission program.…

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