THURSDAY 9pm SC Cinema
NINA NASTASIA (USA)/ THE CAPE MAY (USA) – concert
Nina Nastasia is easily one of the most significant American singer-songwriters working today, and this marks her fourth stop in Chicago, which has basically become a mandatory pitstop on every one of her European tours. Even though she recently jumped from Touch and Go over to Fat Cat Records—where she released the new album „On Leaving“—some things stay the same; she actually teamed up with the indispensable Steve Albini to produce this record.
Since she’s touring with the trio The Cape May as her backing band this time around, you'll actually get to hear them in Chicago for the first time, as they're playing their own set before joining Nina on stage.
„These intimate hushes and lilts would be remarkable even as instrumentals.... Yet it's Nastasia's voice--and the words that it sings--that really sucks the air out of the room.“ Mojo
“Spare, beautiful, outstanding.“ Uncut
„Curiously compelling for something so minimal, it's like nothing else around.“ Q Magazine
“Delicate songs with unexpected, unnerving strength.“ The Guardian
“Ms. Nastasia's songs reach back to the staples - waltzes and ballads, love and death - for music that verges on parables, set to a porchful of unplugged instruments.“ New York Times Best Of
10pm Teatar & TD-polukružna
KSET: „OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE“ - video listening session (80s American indie scene)
video listening session: OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE
Inspired by that legendary book of the same name, this video session will take you through 1980s America, back when a bunch of kids across the country staged a genuine little revolution. By tossing out the established rules for how bands should operate, they started launching their own labels and distribution networks, finding ways to stick it to Reagan-era America. Unlike British punk, which was mostly about the look, hardcore—which is what we're talking about here—was brewing in the suburbs of major cities on both coasts, and even in small towns in Middle America where something like this had been unthinkable before. It was born out of grit; massive brawls before, during, and after shows were just Tuesday for these kids, and police brutality was practically a given. Like any revolution, hardcore burned out fast, making way for a wave of even more creative bands that kept releasing music on SST, Dischord, Touch and Go, and other labels that became synonymous with freedom and independence within corporate America. These are the groups whose videos you'll get to see: Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Fugazi...
FRIDAY8pm Teatar & TD - large
Student Music Academy: TWISTED CAROLS (Christmas music competition)
For another year, the Student Music Academy is teaming up with Culture Change to host their big Christmas-themed music competition. They're inviting all the weird musicians out there to join in with their own fresh takes on those million times we've already heard standard holiday melodies. We're expecting plenty of unique vocal, instrumental, and hybrid combinations. There are great prizes for the best performers, plus a weird little party in the Teatar & TD semi-circular hall afterward!
9pm Teatar & TD-polukružna
DEATH DISCO + deMode 80's (jah, bambi, jon b, liik, mirzaa) – concert
music from and inspired by the 80's The eighties? Most people who were growing up and discovering the music scene back then would call it the absolute worst era in pop history. While the mainstream was being ravaged by total garbage, a different kind of scene was developing everything that remained once the dust from the big punk explosion finally settled. It was precisely those kinds of eighties that allowed us to keep our sanity amidst today's flood of musical cookie-cutter stuff, thanks to all those modern bands that caught a whiff of that old-school intensity.
Deep in the underground, everything was simmering. After the dust from the massive punk explosion finally settled, the American scene started churning out whatever was left: diverse post-punk experiments, intelligent disco (and I’m not just talking about Gang of Four), new wave, that total melancholy "vein-cutting" vibe of The Cure, the birth of dark sounds... all the way to the underground tidal waves crashing toward the mainland... The fusion of sound and image... sound, image, movement (think Le Ballet de l'Action), and the further evolution of electronic currents (like Kraftwerk)... and, uh, let’s not forget the most promising band of the 80s in the region (Idoli).
This time, deMode is bringing you music born from and inspired by the eighties as part of the 3rd Culture Fair. We’ll be spinning the 80s tracks that left the deepest marks on us—bands like The Cure, Kraftwerk, D.A.F., Joy Division, Pixies, Gang Of Four, The Clash, Bauhaus, Human League, and The Smiths. Alongside them, you’ll hear modern artists drawing breath from that era, such as The Knife, The Rapture, DFA 1979, Bloc Party, Juan Maclean, and FPU...
Death Disco is a Chicago-based band playing post-punk in the vein of Charles Akrobata and The Wire. They recently dropped their debut EP 'Red Signals' via 'Dirty Old Label' and they’ve got a bright
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To set the mood before the music starts, we’ll be screening the film 'Liquid Sky.' The plot: a model with questionable morals finds her partners being hunted by evil aliens, and the only thing saving the day is none other than a German scientist!
21h Club SC - KSET
KSET CAFFE
This program was curated by KSET members and categorized as a 'playground,' because every night is a gamble—you never quite know what the resident DJs have cooked up for that particular Thursday. From ridiculous hits to serious anthems from ridiculous and serious times, the music is guaranteed to keep everyone on the dance floor until the early hours. Don't miss it.
SATURDAY21h Teatar & TD-polukružna
JOHN GRZINICH: Sound Locations - Transpositions + AZOT (USA) – concert
Explicit Music
This work serves as an intersection of recent projects by sound artist and composer John Grzinich. The performance is a juxtaposition of site-specific recordings (both audio and video) paired with electronic processing of movement within the performance space. Much like how Grzinich constantly shifts his geographic location throughout the year (from Estonia to Portugal, Italy, or Japan), the material he records changes too. In that sense, "Sound Locations - Transpositions" is part of a continuous creative process, bridging the gap between recorded material and live performance.
"Sound Locations - Transpositions" explores various aspects of space and location and their relationship to imagery and sound. The performance combines three components: live computer-based sound processing, mobile sound reproduction (via portable devices), and recorded video.
John Grzinich is an American artist who lives and travels extensively through Europe. He is currently based in Estonia, where he works as a coordinator at MoKs, a non-profit art center. His work has been released on labels such as SIRR, Cloudmirror, Staalstaat, Erewhon, Intransitive, Cut, Elevator Bath, CMR, Orogenetics, and Pale Disc.
web:
http://maaheli.ee/* Explicit Music is a joint project of the Multimedia Institute [Chicago] and the contemporary music initiative CHINCH [Belgrade]
www.explicit-music.orgwww.chinch.org** This concert is produced in collaboration with the Culture Change at the Student Center in Chicago
www.sczg.hr*** Supported by the North American Trust for Democracy
Regional initiative Clubture
21,30h Club SC
n,jab: BICIKLOFON – audio visual performance
Performers: Matija Rubinić, Nikša Babić, Maja Stipković, Đuro Gavran
Biciklofon is designed as an audio-visual performance. We aren’t going to waste our breath justifying why we’re turning a bicycle into a musical instrument; let's be honest, nobody actually reads or takes eco-activist manifestos seriously anyway. We just want to play on and with a bike, backed by a mix of electric guitar, melodica, synths, and a few surprise instruments along the way.
An amplified bike, completely improvised sets, and video projections filmed while riding through the streets of Chicago—we’re pretty sure you haven’t experienced this before.
NJAB (A very, very alternative band) was founded back in 2001 by Nikša Babić, Matija Rubinić, and Đuro Gavran. NJAB is essentially a group of students who express themselves regardless of the medium or how much they know about media, mostly focusing their critiques on society, the structure of things, and the system at large.
10 PM Club SC - KSET
KSET SURPRISE PARTY