The Links Hill Studio Archive contains recordings of over 135 events of spoken word, performance, and music that took place at Chicago’s Link’s Hall, a multi-disciplinary project space founded in 1978 by Bob Eisen, Carol Bobrow, and Charlie Vernon. In 1985, Links Hall artistic director Michael Zerang initiated the The Link’s Hall Performance Series, a curated series that expanded Links Hall programming of dance and movement to include contemporary and experimental music, traditional ethnic folk music, literary readings, and performance art. The Performance Series was initiated to provide artists a consistent performance venue dedicated to the exhibition and dissemination of diverse artistic genres. Through the inception of the Performance Series, Links Hall provided Chicago audiences a series of events to experience the creative output of emerging musical, literary, and performance artists. Although the Performance Series began in 1985, unattended recordings created by Michael Zerang in a VHS audio format began in 1987. These recordings form the bulk of CAA's Links Hall Performance Series archive. In 1989, Jim de Jong took over Zerang's role as artistic director. The collection reflects Zerang's extensive holdings of recorded material from unattended recordings that began in 1987.
The diverse collection of recordings mirrors the artistic mission of the Performance Series as a forum for experimental exhibition and exchange. The extensive nature of the collection is indebted to its creator Michael Zerang, who remained the artistic director of the Performance series from its inception in 1985 until 1989. In CAA's holdings, the collection includes early literary recordings of Gerald Nicosia and David Sedaris, to the poetry of Clark Coolidge; the music of Perry Venson, Jeff Abell, Nga Jiiwa, and Derek Bailey; percussion improvisations by Thurman Barker and Andrew Cyrille; and international sound sessions from the Caribbean and the Middle East. Additional artists include: Eugene Chadbourne, Christian Marclay, Kahil El Zabar, Ray McNiece, Sandra Binion, and Andrei Codrescu.By browsing through the finding aid, one will discover the breadth of the recordings included in the archive. The collection also includes original program schedules.
The collection is filed chronologically as the Performance Series was recorded beginning in 1987. Unique accession numbers were assigned according to individual performances as first recorded on original sound videocassete. Therefore, accession number reflects the original VHS tape the individual performance was recorded on. For example LH1(a) refers to Links Hall VHS tape number one, performance one (a) and so forth. Track listings referred to as "Contents" were retrieved from digital surrogates that were identified by Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall interns. Titles of performances and related notes were retrieved from original published material related to the "Performance Series" see
Related Materials>The archive is open to the public by appointment.
Assorted original printed material from the Links Hall Performance Series is included in the archive.
Originals and surrogate duplicates are located at ESS.
The bulk of the collection was acquired by ESS on in an audio VHS format. The collection was reformatted into three digial surrogate formats by ESS.
Sonia Yoon managed the organization of the collection and supervised the cataloging and digital preservation of the material. ESS interns Aaron (? [Get last name from Lou]) and Cesar Devila (did they also re-format the collection?) identified each recording by artist, date, location, duration, track listing and number. Links Hall intern, Virginia DePriest, provided database entry support to consolidate the transcribed identification reports Aaron and Devila initially transcribed and identified. Ryan Schultz and Katy Lynch provided technical programming support of database design and configuration.
The collection is cataloged by event. Supplemantary information related to each performance was taken from originally published program schedules.
Jerome Cooper, flute, musette, drumset, talking drum, balaphon
Recorded live 1987.03.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (10 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 55 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 0 sec)
Master drummer Jerome Cooper opens our percussion series with two sets of structured improvisations. Jerome has perfomed with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Steve Lacy, Sam Rivers, Cecil Taylor, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Anthony Braxton to name a few. He was also one of the three founders of theh REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Dan Scanlan, trumpet, cornet, slide guitar ; Bill Barnes, trombone ; Steve Hunt, percussion ; Erik Neuman, cello ; Michael Zerang, percussion
Recorded live 1987.03.27, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Felt so bad..."] (14 min. 57 sec.) -- [Untitled] (26 min. 41 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 9 sec.)
Trumpeteer, Violinst, Guitarist, Composer Scanlan will be joined by trombonist Barnes, Cellist Nuemann and percussionist Hunt for an evening of compositions and structured improvisations that will be featured on his upcoming album. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987}
Jeffrey Brown, speaker ; Howard Edwards, speaker ; Reggie Smith, speaker ; Paris Smith, speaker ; Reggie Young, speaker ; Dan Curry, speaker
Recorded live 1987.03.26, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Reggie Young (4 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Last time I saw Jesus...,"] / Reggie Young (0 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (0 min. 42 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 43 sec.) -- ["Morning Boogie"] / Reggie Young (0 min. 46 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Tribal Differences"] / Reggie Young (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Young (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Rupert's Christmas"] / Paris Smith (16 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["One Man Dead"] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 49 sec.) -- "The Rules of the Game"] / Reggie Smith (0 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Rain"] / Reggie Smith (0 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Fear"] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Kill the Innocent"] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Burnt Poem"] / Reggie Smith (0 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Southbound Train"] / Reggie Smith (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Reggie Smith (4 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Bluesville Info"] / Reggie Young (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (0 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Bitches Brew"] / Howard Edwards (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Howard Edwards (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Intro for Dan Curry"] / Reggie Young (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Salvation"] / Dan Curry (28 min. 23 sec.) -- [End, Links Hall Calender] (4 min. 5 sec.)
This magazine [Bluesville] attempts to represent Chicago's culturally neglected Westside as a literary journal, while showcasing young urban writers and artists. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Donald Deering, speaker ; Amy Sedaris, performer ; David Sedaris, speaker
Recorded live 1987.04.02, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Note: First two tracks are empty sound] -- ["Life"] / Amy Sedaris (1 min. 57 sec.) -- ["Receipt Over Phone"] / Amy Sedaris (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Nancy Sipes/Amway"] / Amy Sedaris (14 min. 56 sec.) -- [Crows Noise/Envelopes] (2 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Silent Reading"] / Donald Deering (9 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Confidential Letter"] / David Sedaris (6 min. 12 sec.) -- ["An Installation Artist..."] / David Sedaris (3 min. 53 sec.) -- ["Filipino Coup"] / David Sedaris (7 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Communist Thanksgiving"] / David Sedaris (6 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Amy was in a car accident last night..."] / David Sedaris (4 min. 30 sec.) -- [Links Hall/Goodnight] (1 min. 37 sec.)
Amy writes and performs characters using improvisation. Her brother David lectures from his personal diary. Donald performs his poetry. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Andrew Cyrille, percussion
Recorded live 1987.03.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Don Meckley (1 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Andrew Cyrille (3 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Andrew Cyrille (51 min. 0 sec.) -- [Applause/Cyrille talking/Break] (2 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Andrew Cyrille (21 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Andrew Cyrille (38 min. 23 sec.)
Currently performing in a trio with Fred Hopkins and Henry Threadgill, and in a quartet led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Andrew describes himself as a "Crazy Conservative." He has organized a number of highly unorthodox ensembles, includeing "DOUBLE DUO" with Famouduo Don Moye, Joseph Jarman and Jimmy Lyons, and percussion ensembles with Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Kenny Clarke and others. He is best known for the decade he spent with the CECIL TAYLOR UNIT.[Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
John Girono, speaker, performer
Recorded live 1987.04.03, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [House Introduction] (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Berlin"] (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Strength of Pleasure"] (3 min. 7 sec.) -- ["(Last Night) I Gambled"] (4 min. 41 sec.) -- ["Stretching it Wider"] (5 min. 5 sec.) -- ["How to make a killer rat"] (2 min. 5 sec.) -- ["It's a mistake to think you're special"] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Sucking Mud"] (2 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Exiled in domestic life"] (3 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Scum and Slime"] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Life is a killer"] (3 min. 19 sec.) -- [Applause] (1 min. 2 sec.)
Founder of the GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS, producers of over 200 poets and musicians who work with the sound of their voice and wisdom content. They have produced 21 LP's, cassettes, videopaks and books. Giorno has published 11 books including the recent release YOU GOT TO BURN TO SHINE. He is also responsible for the DIAL-A-POEM project and is the star of Andy Warhol's 1963 film, SLEEP. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Joseph Celli, composer, editor, oboe, bass clarinet ; Marty Walker, accompaniment
Recorded live 1987.04.10, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Milling about/setup/trains] (13 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 25 sec.) -- [Information] (3 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 4 sec.) -- [Applause and break] (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Snare drum for Camus"] (13 min. 28 sec.) -- [Information] (3 min. 18 sec.) -- [Open improv] (9 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 39 sec.) -- [Q and A] (9 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Short piece with oboe player"] (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Announcement] (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Milling about] (1 min. 37 sec.)
Following his recent appearance at Carnegie Hall, where he conducted the Kronos Quartet in works by Omette Coleman, Celli will perform 7 pieces for film, video, oboe, bass clarinet and tape accompanied by Marty Walker. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Michael Lally, speaker ; Jack Skelly, speaker ; David Trinidad, speaker
Recorded live 1987.04.09, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Milling about] (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Introduction to program] (0 min. 35 sec.) -- [Introduction to Jack Skelly] (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jack Skelly (1 min. 17 sec.) -- [First reading] / Jack Skelly (3 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Reason is an old fart"] / Jack Skelly (2 min. 21 sec.) -- ["To Marie Osmond"] / Jack Skelly (2 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Heartbeat"] / Jack Skelly (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Intro Led Zep"] / Jack Skelly (1 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Bonzo"] / Jack Skelly (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Jimmy Page"] / Jack Skelly (2 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Food Reading/Tower Records"] / Jack Skelly (5 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Freeway Stranger"] /Jack Skelly (1 min. 14 sec.) -- [David Trinidad Introduction] (1 min. 1 sec.) -- [Introduction] / David Trinidad (0 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Point of Light"] / David Trinidad (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Manson"] / David Trinidad (2 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Haiku Series"] / Davis Trinidad (1 min. 49 sec.) -- ["11 days"] / David Trinidad (25 min. 4 sec.) -- [Break/Intermission] (7 min. 4 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Michael Lally (0 min. 33 sec.) -- ["I'm Cool"] / Michael Lally (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["My Life"] / Michael Lally (7 min. 59 sec.) -- ["Illness Reading"] / Michael Lally (3 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Don't Fuck"] / Michael Lally (6 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Life is a bitch"] / Michael Lally (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["No other love"] / Michael Lally (2 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Michael Lally (1 min. 41 sec.) -- ["Anti-semitism"] / Michael Lally (5 min. 26 sec.)
This is the first installment featuring poets from the Los Angeles Area. Michael Lally has been called "The Francois Villon of our time." Twenty collections of his work have been published since 1970. He has received the New York Poetry Center "Discovery Award" in 1972; National Endowment for the Arts Award in '74 and '81. His work has been denounced as "obscene" in the US Congress. Jack Skelly has been active in the west coast literary scene writing as well as publishing since 1977. David Trinidad founded Sherwood Press in 1981 and has published seven titles. His work appeared in anthologies internationally, and he has had numerous readings across the country. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Amy Gerstler, speaker ; Benjamin Weissman, speaker
Recorded live 1987.04.16, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [L.A. poets introduction] (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Benjamin Weissman (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Haiku"] / Benjamin Weissman (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Haiku"] / Benjamin Weissman (0 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Benjamin Weissman (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["The Libertines"] / Benjamin Weissman (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Museum Boy"] / Benjamin Weissman (1 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Museum Boy" continued] / Benjamin Weissman (31 min. 10 sec) -- [Intermission] (0 min. 52 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Amy Gerstler (1 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Amy Gerstler (2 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Amy Gerstler (1 min. 48 sec.) -- ["Saints"] / Amy Gerstler (1 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Marriage"] / Amy Gerstler (3 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Overcome"] / Amy Gerstler (1 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Lost in the Forest"] / Amy Gerstler (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Grocery Store"] / Amy Gerstler (12 min. 5 sec.) -- ["A father at his son's baptism"] / Amy Gerstler (2 min. 10 sec.) -- [Crowd] (0 min. 16 sec.)
Amy has performed her work nationally and is widely published. Benjamin coordinates the Beyond Baroque Poetry Series. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Lorrie Jackson, speaker ; Sharon Mesmer, speaker ; Brigid Murphy, speaker
Recorded live 1987.04.23, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sharon Mesmer (4 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Nervous"] / Sharon Mesmer (3 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Chinese Restaurant"] / Sharon Mesmer (4 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Video Segment"] / Sharon Mesmer (4 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Creepy Song"] / Sharon Mesmer (4 min. 2 sec.) -- [Audience Participation] (5 min. 35 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Lorrie Jackson (2 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorrie Jackson (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorrie Jackson (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorrie Jackson (3 min. 17 sec.) -- ["I had a very important poem to write"] / Lorrie Jackson (1 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorrie Jackson (3 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorrie Jackson (4 min. 24 sec.) -- ["The Acid Epic"] / Lorrie Jackson (3 min. 37 sec.) -- ["By the hair"] / Lorrie Jackson (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Bad cup of coffee"] / Lorrie Jackson (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Love and speed"] / Lorrie Jackson (4 min. 10 sec.) -- [Intermission] (0 min. 33 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Brigid Murphy (0 min. 33 sec.) -- ["As the banana peels"] / Brigid Murphy (9 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Chicken bones blocking kisses"] / Brigid Murphy (6 min. 12 sec.) -- [Outro] (6 min. 12 sec.)
Lorrie is one of Chicago's most forthright and charismatic young poets; Sharon utilizes music, monologues and comedy in her poetry performances; Brigid combines comedy and drama and an array of characters of both genders in her performances. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Don Hedeker, composer ; Lydia Tomkiw, performer
Recorded live 1987.05.01, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Introduction #2] (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Manic Sway"] (4 min. 17 sec.) -- ["In bed with boys"] (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["No War Bride"] (2 min. 13 sec.) -- ["After Charles"] (1 min. 41 sec.) -- ["Sombrose"] (3 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Proverbial..."] (2 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Tractor Pull"] (2 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Tales of Great Ullyses] (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Amusing one's self"] (3 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Little dead bodies"] (5 min. 26 sec.) -- [Crowd noise/introduction to part two] (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Tonight"] (3 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Love's Trans Am"] (2 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Father's by the door"] (5 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Delmar"] (3 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Adgitation"] (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Tuesday tastes good"] (3 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Lethargy"] (2 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Dream vacation"] (4 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 7 sec.)
Since its formation in 1982, Algebra Suicide has appeared on many new music compilations throughout the U.S. and Europe. Tomkiw's poetry and fiction has appeared internationally in over 40 publications. Hedeker is currently composing the soundtrack to the film "Art And Crisis." [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Kai El Zabar, speaker ; Kahil El Zabar, musical accompaniment
Recorded live 1987.05.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Ten year run"] (3 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Sunday, Feb. 1st"] (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Dear"] (3 min. 34. sec.) -- ["The Danakil"] (16 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Setup and any questions between things"] (1 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Scented Essence"] (43 min. 13 sec.)
"2 X El Zabar = Kahil &Kai = Els in Duet." Kai is the editor of Alance, and teaches at Roosevelt University and Northeastern University. She is also an Arts Administrator for FEPA—a key producer of the annual underground fest. Providing musical accompaniment to her reading will be Kahil El Zabar. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Ladonna Smith, violin, viola, guitar, toys ; Davey Williams, violin, viola, guitar, toys
Recorded live 1987.04.11, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction/Untitled] (14 min. 36 sec.) -- [Vocal/String (violin)] (14 min. 3 sec.) -- [Vocal/String (violin), cont.] (8 min. 39 sec.) -- [Cycle noises/love story (Ladonna)] (9 min. 7 sec.) -- [Intermission] (2 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Object discussion"] (16 min. 9 sec.) -- [Instrument/spoken word] (7 min. 31 sec.) -- [Violin/spoken word (Davey)] (16 min. 4 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 5 sec.)
The Dixie Surrealists are back with an evening of improvised solos and duets for violin, viola, guitar and toys. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Ed sanders, speaker
Recorded live 1987.04.17, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 12 sec.) ["Speaks"] (2 min. 44 sec.) -- ["Hudson River"] (8 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Poem-Diary"] (8 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Religion translated"] (6 min. 38 sec.) -- ["The Hook"] (12 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Instrument talk"] (5 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Political talk"] (6 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Sampling"] (0 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Magazine"] (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["War-Slums"] (18 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Love/Hate"] (4 min. 57 sec.) -- [Outro] (9 min. 0 sec.)
Ed Sanders is a poet of the Beat Generation and a founding member of the legendary rock group THE FUGS. He is well-known for his outstanding poetry readings, including the use of a musical tie and other musical effects, as well as for his appearance in the Ron Mann movie "Poetry in Motion." [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Yako [?] ; Barbara [?] ; Philip [?] ; Dixie [?]
Recorded live 1987.04.18, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL. 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 48 sec.) -- [Composer talks] (1 min. 10 sec.) -- [Vocals/Strings] (20 min. 2 sec.) -- [Break #1] (1 min. 56 sec.) -- [Wind instrument (flute)] (6 min. 5 sec.) -- [Break #2] (2 min. 36 sec.) -- [Electronic sounds] (5 min. 40 sec.) -- [Break #3] (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Violin/Flute/Clarinet] (7 min. 6 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 33 sec.) -- [Percussion] (10 min. 1 sec.) -- [Break #4] (4 min. 32 sec.) -- [Vibrations] (15 min. 1 sec.) -- [Break #5 and #6] (3 min. 34 sec.) -- [Hey!/Acapella] (10 min. 14 sec.)
In conjunction with the New Music Chicago Spring Festival, LHPS presents this evening of solo and ensemble pieces by composers chosen by New Music Chicago. Several fine local performers have been engaged to present this works. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Andre Caporaso, performer ; Steve Hunt, performer ; Larry Nordstrom, performer ; Gwynne Winsberg, performer
Recorded live 1987.03.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introducton] (1 min. 34 sec.) -- [Fading elements/instruments] (11 min. 27 sec.) -- [Funk vibe/voice] (12 min. 38 sec.) -- [Heavy bass, "Urban Spaces"] (8 min. 3 sec.) -- [Country song] (6 min. 8 sec.) -- [Break] (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Various noises/brass instruments] (13 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Hopeless in New York"] (6 min. 2 sec. ) -- [Keyboard/Dance] (12 min. 27 sec.) -- [Band talks] (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Without boundaries"] (9 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Our next show..."] (2 min. 17 sec.) -- [Final improv] (14 min. 59 sec.)
Desperate Measures can be obtuse, witty, satirical or just good fun as they parody and transform heavy metal and punk songs into new art songs of lost loves, sex and politics. All four members are shameless improvisors from jazz backgrounds. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Thurman Barker, percussion
Recorded live 1987.03.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["The Hunt"] (11 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 42 sec.) -- ["Blue in green"] (12 min. 5 sec.) -- [Intermission] (2 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Kalingalinga"] (17 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Hocus Pocus"] (21 min. 15 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 19 sec.)
Barker's recent activities include a trio with Joseph Jarman and Amina Claudine Meyers, and solo work on marimba, traps and xylophone. He has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Billy Bang, John Lindberg and the World Bass Violin Ensemble, to name a few. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Samm Bennett, percussion
Recorded live 1987.05.02, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction/First Song] (7 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Thinking with the hands"] (16 min. 10 sec.)
Bennett performs with BOSHO, a rhythm based group with percussionists Yuval Gabay and Kumiko Kimoto and guitarist/violinist Hahn Rowe, also Elliott Sharp and Ned Rothenberg as SEMANTICS. In addition to solo work, Samm has performed with John Zorn, Shelly Hirsch, Tom Cora, George Cartwright, David van Tieghen and David Zambrano. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Phil Cohran, trumpet ; Sister Maia, vocals, percussion ; Aquilla Saddala, vocals, percussion
Recorded live 1987.05.08, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Conjurer's Song/Alayo] (9 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Beautiful Africa"] (4 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Black Orpheus"] (7 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 13 sec.) -- ["The eagle who thought he was a chicken"] (8 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Nature"] (5 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Black Music"] (9 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 31 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Angela"] (9 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Lean on me"] (3 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Hound dog"] (2 min. 6 sec.) -- ["African blues"] (8 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Jazz monlogue/'Round Midnight intro."] (6 min. 41 sec.) -- ["'Round Midnight"] (5 min. 55 sec.) -- ["Mystic's Song"] (11 min. 34 sec.)
Co-founder of the AACM, Phil is a teacher, Trumpeter and composer living and working in Chicago. He will be joined by Sister Maia and Aquilla Saddala, vocalists who dance and play percussion. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Kahil El Zabar, percussion
Recorded live 1987.05.15, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] (60 min. 43 sec.) -- [Introduction/Second Set] (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (42 min. 39 sec.) --
"So Low -- But Never Alone" is the title of this solo concert by Kahil El Zabar. Known for his work with the ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE, Kahil has recently released the album "The Ritual," featuring Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Robert Klein Engler, speaker ; M.H. Marchnight, speaker
Recorded live 1987.05.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] / M.J. Marchnight-- (1 min. 30 sec.) -- [Talking] / M.J. Marchnight (1 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.J. Marchnight (2 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.J. Marchnight (2 min. 14 sec.) -- ["There is infinite hope butu not for us"] / M.J. Marchnight (5 min. 26 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Robert Klein Engler (0 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Robert Klein Engler (0 min. 25 sec.) -- ["A serenade for Elvis Presley"] / Robert Klein Engler (2 min. 27 sec.) -- ["On the 10th anniversary of his marriage and the 1st of his enforced celebacy Part 1 and 2"] / Robert Klein Engler (6 min. 15 sec.) -- ["A lil Akbar"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Little elogy for a child who skips rope"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["After great pain"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Hands"] / Robert Klein Engler (2 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Perfect flower of human time"] / Robert Klein Engler (3 min. 13 sec.) -- ["The rocking chair"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Trist"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Robert Klein Engler (3 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Jana"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Amazon at dawn"] / Robert Klein Engler (2 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Sea change"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 18 sec.) ["On the long march"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Flower from Africa"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["I was Big Foot's sex slave"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Resurrection"] / Robert Klein Engler (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Monday storm"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Before the last attack"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Safe"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Arab"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Rhythm methods"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Roberet Klein Engler (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Nicholas Lindsey returns home to Illinois"] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Robert Klein Engler (1 min. 13 sec.)
Engler teaches at Daley City College and administrates AlphaBeta Press. Marchnight is a member of the Axe Street Arena Collective. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Alix PiQuion, speaker ; David Hernandez, speaker ; Alejandro Velasquez, percussion
Recorded live 1987.05.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 40 sec.) -- ["A French story"] / Alix PiQuion (5 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Sunset story"] / Alix PiQuion (4 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Dream story"] / Alix PiQuion (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Intermission] (0 min. 19 sec.) -- [Warming Up] / Davis Hernandez with band (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Chi-town brown"] / David Hernandez with band (4 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Ode to my penis-celibacy"] / David Hernandez with band (2 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Worthless"] / David Hernandez with band (9 min. 13 sec.) -- ["I want to be a real poet"] / David Hernandez with band (3 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / David Hernandez with band (6 min. 11 sec.) -- ["A present and metaphysical question"] / David Hernandez with band (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["...manhood..."] / David Hernandez with band (3 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / David Hernandez with band (11 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Homies"] / David Hernandez with band (10 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Goddess"] / David Hernandez with band (13 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Song for Chicago"] / David Hernandez with band (7 min. 20 sec.) -- [Clapping] (0 min. 32 sec.)
Each season the LHPS [Links Hall Performance Series] travels to a differentn part of the globe to find Traditional Folk Music to augment the otherwise experimental nature of the series. This season, we will feature the poetry and music of the CARIBBEAN, which will include a CONGA QUARTET, a HAITIAN FOLK MUSIC ENSEMBLE, a PUERTO RICAN STREET BAND, and CALYPSO MUSIC FROM TRINIDAD. Assisting us in this series is the Caribbean Arts Association of Chicago. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Jeff Abell, speaker ; Tim W. Brown, speaker ; Joe Gastiger, speaker ; John Jacob, speaker ; Dan Ursini, speaker ; Tim Brown, speaker ; Tomorrow Magazine, organizer
Recorded live 1987.05.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Tim Brown (3 min. 36 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Dan Ursini (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Selections from novel"] / Dan Ursini (16 min. 35 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Joe Gastiger (4 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Singing the messiah..."] / Joe Gastiger (2 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Joe Gastiger (2 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Winter highway night"] / Joe Gastiger (2 min. 46 sec.) -- ["The children of mechanics"] / Joe Gastiger (3 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Cinder path through the trees"] / Joe Gastiger (1 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Through the walls"] / Joe Gastiger (1 min. 46 sec.) -- ["Tear gas"] / Joe Gastiger (1 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Clean slate"] / Joe Gastiger (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["My thai, derby..."] / Joe Gastiger (3 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Great players"] / Joe Gastiger (3 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Angel"] / Joe Gastiger (1 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Heartbeat"] / Joe Gastiger (2 min. 27 sec.) -- [Introduction] / John Jacob (2 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Conjureville"] / John Jacob (3 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Low point"] / John Jacob (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Rutland"] / John Jacob (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Emerald City"] / John Jacob (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["96 tears"] / John Jacob (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["I'm going down to the station"] / John Jacob (1 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Roll over"] / John Jacob (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Visual relationships"] / John Jacob (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["From Chicago sequence"] / John Jacob (1 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Kent"] / John Jacob (1 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Jacob (1 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Mies Van der Rohe Place"] / John Jacob (1 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Cry me a river"] / John Jacob (1 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Jacob (1 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Shoot the piano player"] / John Jacob (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["This is to say..."] / John Jacob (4 min. 27 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jeff Abell (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Note to student"] / Jeff Abell (3 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Found poems-1"] / Jeff Abell (1 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Found poems-2"] / Jeff Abell (4 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Found Text-Grandma Music"] / Jeff Abell (3 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Found Text-Radio"] / Jeff Abell (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Found Text-Pianist"] / Jeff Abell (2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["System seven Chicago"] / Jeff Abell (3 min. 13 sec.) -- ["3-voice"] / Jeff Abell (7 min. 1 sec.) -- [Outro] / Tim Brown (1 min. 31 sec.)
Editor Tim Brown will M.C. this evening of writers featured in Chicago's own Tomorrow Magazine [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Alice Notley, speaker ; Maureen Owen, speaker
Recorded live 1987.06.04, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction/New American Writing] (3 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Alice Notley (0 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Macho Daisy Duck"] / Alice Notley (5 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Love song"] / Alice Notley (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Song after a dream"] / Alice Notley (1 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Fallen angel"] / Alice Notley (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Chair"] / Alice Notley (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Horn/Candle/Paper Roses"] / Alice Notley (7 min. 37 sec.) -- ["I, the people"] / Alice Notley (2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Three poems"] / Alice Notley (1 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Poem"] / Alice Notley (2 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Poem," cont.] / Alice Notley (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Alice Notley (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["At night the states"] / Alice Notley (7 min. 38 sec.) -- [Audience noise] (1 min. 58 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["We can't find the traitor..."] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Syran wrap"] / Maureen Owen (0 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Stone letter in a pot"] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["African Sunday"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["November for a straight life"] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (0 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Trash guys"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Chrome"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["To love summer"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Internal damage"] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Everyday"] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 6 sec.) -- ["From gossip notes of court life"] / Maureen Owen (2 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (3 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Imaginary income"] / Maureen Owen (0 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["No one ever eats the end ofo the grapes"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Blue nice"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (0 min. 41 sec.) -- ["Martha"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Was the book full of birds"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Tall white"] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (0 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Maureen Owen (1 min. 30 sec.)
Alice Notley is one of the finest poets of her generation and an important sustainer of the traditions of William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Frank O'Hara. Maureen Owen is a former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, and the author of several outstanding books of poetry. Her book AE (Amelia Earhart), 1984, was the winner of a Before Columbus American Book Award, and in 1979 she won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Geoffrey Young, speaker ; [Note: Clark Coolidge is not represented on this recording]
Recorded live 1987.06.11, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 10 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Geoffrey Young (5 min. 25 sec.) -- ["The French Impressionism of Walter Payton"] / Geoffrey Young (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Geoffrey Young (7 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Geoffrey Young (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Geoffrey Young (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Geoffrey Young (4 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Sefarieatis"] / Geoffrey Young (2 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Drive it said"] / Geoffrey Young (17 min. 18 sec.) -- [Crowd noise and silence] (1 min. 23 sec.)
Clark Coolidge is one of the few poets to have affected the poetry of his time. Through the publication of his many books of poetry, he has been an important influence on the "language poets," a group that produced some of the most interesting and controversial work of the past ten years. Geoffrey Young lives in Massachusetts, where he edits The Figures, one of the outstanding avant-garde poetry publishers of the last decade. He was a Fulbright Scholar in France and has translated, with Michael Palmer, the Vicente Huidobro collection, Relativity of Spring. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Elliott Sharp, composer, solo instrumentalist
Recorded live 1987.05.16, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Introduction, cont.] (0 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (20 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (32 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 43 sec.) -- [Crowd noise] (0 min. 52 sec.) -- [Second set] (29 min. 29 sec.) -- [End] (0 min. 14 sec.)
Recorded live 1987.05.22, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Solo rhythm"] (7 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Group rhythm"] (2 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Fast rhythm"] (5 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Stick and hand drums/Merengue"] (4 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Rhumba"] (5 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Heavy rhythm"] (5 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Upbeat rhythm"] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Very fast rhythm"] (3 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Steady rhythm"] (7 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Jumpy rhythm"] (3 min. 55 sec.) -- ["Links Hall events"] (1 min. 33 sec.)
Recorded live 1987.05.23, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Tuning up"] (1 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] (17 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Preparing to play"] (2 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (16 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Tuning up"] (0 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 58 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Goodbye song"] (1 min. 52 sec.) -- [End] (0 min. 32 sec.)
Cathy and Clyde, keyboard, drum machine, steel drum
Recorded live 1987.05.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (5 min. 7 sec.) -- [Introduction] (1 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 40 sec.) -- ["I can see clearly now"] (7 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Watermelon man"] (4 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 49 sec.) -- [Short break] (0 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Girl from Ipanema"] (6 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 16 sec.) -- [6 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Links Hall announcements"] (2 min. 6 sec.)
Recorded live 1987.05.30, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (5 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Break/Tuning up"] (0 min. 39 sec.) -- ["if you don't love me, forget it"] (6 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] ("La hija de Plena"] (6 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 24 sec.)
Recorded live 1987.06.13, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["The Freedom Principle"] (35 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Sun Ra"] (19 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (26 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 47 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 7 sec.)
HAL is back with a new surprise suite for a premiere at Links Hall. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Christian Marclay, performer, phonographs
Recorded live 1987.06.06, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Silence] (0 min. 26 sec.) -- [Introduction] (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Silence] (1 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (20 min. 32 sec.) -- [Silence] (1 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Silence] (1 min. 57 sec.) -- [Untitled] (31 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Thank you"] (1 min. 14 sec.)
Since 1979, Christian has been experimenting, composing and performing withi phonograph records. His interest in records, both as objects and as bearers of sound, is expressed through sculpture, performance, video and music. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Clark Coolidge, speaker ; [Note: Geoffrey Young is not represented on this recording]
Recorded live 1987.06.11, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction to Clark Coolidge] (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["At Egypt"] / Clark Coolidge (38 min. 5 sec.) -- [Crowd noise] (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Silence] (0 min. 18 sec.) -- [Silence] (0 min. 3 sec.)
Clark Coolidge is one of the few poets to have affected the poetry of his time. Through the publication of his many books of poetry, he has been an important influence on the "language poets," a group that produced some of the most interesting and controversial work of the past ten years. Geoffrey Young lives in Massachusetts, where he edits The Figures, one of the outstanding avant-garde poetry publishers of the last decade. He was a Fulbright Scholar in France and has translated, with Michael Palmer, the Vicente Huidobro collection, Relativity of Spring. [Links Hall Program Schedule, March-June 1987]
Eugene Chadbourne, speaker, performer
Recorded live 1987.09.18, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 40 sec.)0 -- [Untitled] (6 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Ollie's playhouse"] (1 min. 50 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 27 sec.) -- ["America stands tall"] (4 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Are you experienced"] (1 min. 48 sec.) -- ["Communist harmonicas"] (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Hostage situation"] (0 min. 21 sec.) -- [Medley: "Philipino labor/Ring of fire/Flow river flow/Eight miles high"] (10 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Phone calls"] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Banter with the crows"] (1 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Chopping down weeds"] (3 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Happy New Year"] (2 min. 44 sec.) -- ["Ten most wanted list"] (4 min. 51 sec.) -- [Medley: "Roger Miller/Pop cultural impressions"] (5 min. 36 sec.) -- ["On the road again"] (5 min. 6 sec.) -- ["When I'm gone"] (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Somewhere over the rainbow"] (1 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Noise"] (2 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Stunt car driver"] (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Banjo solo/Breakin' the Law"] (4 min. 22 sec.) -- ["We keep the KKK in line"] (5 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Grainy noise"] (4 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 20 sec.) -- ["This old smokey bar"] (9 min. 23 sec.) -- ["My brand new shirt/I'm a bully"] (5 min. 39 sec.) -- [Encore: "A time to sin/Be saved"] (7 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 3 sec.)
To open our fall 1987 season, Mad Dr. Chad will present an evening of solo song, noice, humor, and hot licks. Chadbourne has extensively toured this country as well as Europe and Canada, performing solo or with a wide range of musicians includingn Jon Rose, David Moss, 2/3rds of the Violent Femmes and Shockabilly. He has produced several albums and hundreds of cassettes which will be available at this concert. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Derek Bailey, guitar
Recorded live 1987.09.19, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (38 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (18 min. 2 sec.) -- [End] (1 min. 32 sec.)
This solo concert features onen of the pioneers of music improvisation for the guitar. During his long career, Bailey has recorded over 70 albums on different labels including INCUS, a British label of improvised music, owned and operated by musicians. INCUS RECORDS was founded in 1970 by Bailey, Evan Parker and Tony Oxley and was the first independant, musician owned record company in Britain. In 1976, Bailey formed COMPANY, a changing ensemble of improvising musiciansn from many backgrounds, featuring players from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Japan. He is the author of the book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music, published in 1980. He was also nominated for a "Grammy" award in 1982 for the recording "View from 6 Windows." [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Eugene Chadbourne, speaker, performer
Recorded live 1987.09.18, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
This recording is a duplicate of LH12(a).
Larry Heinemann, speaker ; James McManus, speaker ; Maxine Chernoff, speaker
Recorded live 1987.09.24, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 10 sec.) -- [Introduction] / James McManus (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [First reading] / James McManus (6 min. 30 sec.) -- ["The Wedding"] / James McManus (14 min. 22 sec.) -- [Last reading] / James McManus (21 min. 39 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Maxine Chernoff (2 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Jury duty"] / Maxine Chernoff (8 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Something to admire"] / Maxine Chernoff (21 min. 37 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Larry Heinemann (2 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Larry Heinemann (4 min. 49 sec.) -- [Excerpt from "Paco's Story"] / Larry Heinemann (23 min. 30 sec.) -- [End] (1 min. 11 sec.)
Larry Heinemann is the award winning Vietnam novelist, author of Close Quarters and Paco's Story. He is now working on a non-fiction book about post Vietnam street syndrome. James McManus has published the novels Out of the Blue and Chin Music, recently reissued by Grove Press. Maxine Chernoff is the author of Bop, a short story collection published by Vintage.[Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Illusion of safety, performers
Recorded live 1987.09.25, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 43 sec.) -- ["Agony looped"] (6 min. 59 sec.) -- ["Humming and whistling"] (8 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Epic droning"] (6 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Large room speaking"] (33 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Operatic"] (26 min. 20 sec.)
Illusion of Safety produce sound fields of mental imagery reflecting inner psychological states. Their interest is in mirroring and exploring the deviation and bent values that the Human Condition necessitates. They work with both severe and pacifying sounds, intentionally juxtaposing many musical styles, and externalizing and anti-purism that rejects constraints placed on them by their peers, institutions, and themselves. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Balkan Rhythm Band, saxophone, clarinet, guitar, bass, drums, kaval, darabuka, ocarina
Recorded live 1987.10.09, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (5 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Take 5"] (3 min. 21 sec.) -- ["A few of my favorite things"] (3 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Ode to myself"] (4 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 5 sec.) -- [Break] (1 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Nefertiti"] (4 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Another Brubeck tune"] (5 min. 46 sec.) -- ["Night in Tunisia"] (6 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 90 sec.) -- ["Shadow of Change"] (4 min. 91 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 97 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 23 sec.) -- [Encore] (5 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Upcoming shows"] (2 min. 8 sec.)
By fusing jazz to Bulgarian and Yugoslavian musical concepts, the Balkan Rhythm Band creates a fresh and exciting sound. Their unique music is characterized by asymmetrical time signatures and diverse instrumentation. Saxoophones, clarinet, guitar, bass and drums are contrasted with the traditional Kaval (a Balkan flute), Darabuka (a drum) and Ocarina. The band's first album "The Jazziest Balkan Dance Band Around" is available on Flying Fish records. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Richard Huttel, speaker ; Diane Raptosh, speaker ; Diane Meyer, speaker ; Lorri Jackson, speaker ; Edward J. Halbig III, speaker
Recorded live 1987.10.01, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Rehearsal by Chernoff"] / Richard Huttel (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Modern Times"] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (2 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (3 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (2 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (2 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (2 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (1 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Richard Huttel (4 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Edward J. Halbig III (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Jordan] / Edward J. Halbig III (3 min. 29 sec.) -- ["St. Louis 1979"] / Edward J. Halbig III (8 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Dairy God slogan"] / Edward J. Halbig III (12 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Dream story (Jenny's world)"] / Edward J. Halbig III (5 min. 5 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Stuttering"] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (2 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (2 min. 42 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (1 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (7 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (2 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (1 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (2 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / [Diane Meyer or Diane Raptosh] (1 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["She wants a boyfriend"] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Queen of hearts"] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (4 min. 11 sec.) -- [End] (1 min. 11 sec.)
Links Hall presents a reading of poetry and fiction from the writers featured in Vice Versa magazine. Founded in 1985 by Gene Lyons, Vice Versa emphasizes dramatic monologues and action themes. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
M.L. Liebler, speaker ; John Sinclair, speaker ; Tyrone Williams, speaker ; Bob Rudnick, speaker
Recorded live 1987.10.08, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (1 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Death Drive"] / Tyrone Williams (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["In my line of vision"] / Tyrone Williams (3 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Collage"] / Tyrone Williams (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Convalescence"] / Tyrone Williams (2 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (2 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (4 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (3 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tyrone Williams (1 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (1 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (3 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (1 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (1 min. 35 sec.) -- ["My dad's a prick"] / M.L. Liebler (1 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] / M.L. Liebler (2 min. 54 sec.) -- ["I'm not worried anymore"] / M.L. Liebler (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Breaking the voodoo"] / M.L. Liebler (6 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 17 sec.) -- ["For the food/Fascists of the north"] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["You can't take it in the ass..."] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Summer of '59"] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Politics in the key of "o"] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 52 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (0 min. 44 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (3 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (0 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (0 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["The grand old lady"] / Bob Rudnick (3 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Getting over on kitty"] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Pontiac's speech to the white man"] / Bob Rudnick (4 min. 5 sec.) -- [Short break] (3 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (3 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Bob Rudnick (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction] / John Sinclair (2 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (1 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (4 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (6 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (3 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (4 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (5 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (2 min. 55 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Sinclair (3 min. 26 sec.) -- [End] (8 min. 28 sec.)
M.L. Liebler is the author of six small press books of poetry. He has also edited Save the Frescoes that are Us: a Detroid Tribute to Jack Kerouac with Frankie Parker-Kerouac. Liebler teaches writing at Wayne State University in Detroit. Tyrone Williams is the author of Convalescences and Other Poems (1987). He teaches literature and writing at Xavier University in Cincinnati. John Sinclair is the author of Guitar Army (1972). His first book of poetry, Thelonius: A Book of Monk, is forthcoming on Ridgeway Press. Bob Rudnick, originally from Detroit, is an active poet living and working in Chicago. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Carlos Cumpian, speaker ; Carlos Cortez, speaker
Recorded live 1987.10.15, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Welcome] (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Introduction to Cortez"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Carlos Cortez (2 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cortez (2 min. 24 sec.) -- ["This is the land"] / Carlos Cortez (4 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Requiem cahnt for a half breed warrior"] / Carlos Cortez (5 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Three spirits"] / Carlos Cortez (6 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Introduction to Cumpian"] / Carlos Cortez (1 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cumpian (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["First poem/Invitation"] / Carlos Cumpian (6 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Second poem"] / Carlos Cumpian (3 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Coyote rides the bus"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Veterano"] / Carlos Cumpian (4 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Cinco de Mayo"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cumpian (5 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Next year in Jerusalem"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 28 sec.) -- ["News item"] / Carlos Cumpian (5 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Two December songs, 1982"] / Carlos Cumpian (4 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Dia de la raza"] / Carlos Cumpian (6 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cumpian (3 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Interview: us and them"] / Carlos Cumpian (8 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Understanding my feet all day"] / Carlos Cumpian (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Driving between Jimmy Dean and Bob Evans"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Pin-up"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Incantation"] / Carlos Cumpian (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Kilotons and then some"] / Carlos Cumpian (3 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cortez (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [End] (0 min. 54 sec.)
Carlos Cumpian is a poet, editor and promoter and is active with "El Moveimento Artistico Chicano" (March) and Abrazo Press. He has been published in Sppon River Quarterly, Nit and Wit, and Notebook, a Little Magazine. He will read from his recent book Coyote Sun. Carlos Cortez (Koyokyokatl) has literary credits that span four decades. He has been published in Canto al Pueblo, Ecos and many other small press journals. He will be reading from his recent book De Kansas a Califas-and back to Chicago. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Steve Nelson Raney, saxophone ; Kent Kessler, conductor ; Katherine Hughes, violin ; Daniel Scanlan, violin ; Erik Neumann, cello
Recorded live 1987.10.10, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 50 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Steve Nelson Raney (9 min. 54 sec.) -- ["December 15th, Kayak capsizes for first time"] / Steve Nelson Raney (12 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Inuit Piece, number one"] / Steve Nelson Raney (4 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Steve Nelson Raney (9 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Songs/series clairvoyant"] / Steve Nelson Raney (6 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Inuit piece, number three"] / Steve Nelson Raney (6 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Steve Nelson Raney (8 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Solitarity plug"] / Steve Nelson Raney (2 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (5 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (4 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (4 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Totally lost"] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (5 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (3 min. 58 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (4 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (4 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (8 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Phantom Ranch String Quartet (3 min. 10 sec.) -- [End] (0 min. 53 sec.)
Links Hall presents a special double-bill. From Milwaukee, Steve Nelson Raney will perform a solo set of improvisations for the saxophone. In 1975, Nelson Raney founded Cornfields, a distribution cooperative for new art, music and poetry from the Midwest. In 1979 he released a self-produced album of piano imporvisations and founded Cody Records/Books. His compositions have been performed in the United States and Europe. The Phantom Ranch String Quartet, under the direction of Kent Kessler, is a Chicago based group that explores the sonic range of the string family through structured and non-structured improvisations. Members of the Quartet include violinists Katherine Hughes, Daniel Scanlan, and cellist Erik Neumann. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Jack Wright, saxophone
Recorded live 1987.10.16, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] / Jack Wright (30 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (14 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (5 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (6 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (4 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (7 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (6 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jack Wright (4 min. 14 sec.)
Philadelphia Saxophonist Jack Wright is one of the most staunch advocates on improvised music in America today. He travels across the country and abroad meeting and performing with other improvisers, performance artists, dancers and poets in an ever-changing number of circumstances. He has produced several albums and cassettes as a documentation of his travels. He has also written articles that have appeared in the Improvisor, Sound Choice, and other periodicals. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Santez, tenor saxophone ; Josef Ben Israel, bass ; Hamid Drake, percussion ; Marvin Sewell, guitar
Recorded live 1987.10.23, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Note: Master does not have introduction or beginning of performance] [Untitled] (22 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Giant steps"] (20 min. 35 sec.) -- [Third piece] (13 min. 26 sec.)
Composer, saxophonist, Santex will lead this ensemble which includes bassist Josef Ben Israel, percussionist Hamid Drake and guitarist Marvin Sewell in an evening of original compositions. Santez has performed extensively in festivals across Europe and the United States. He has recorded with the likes of the X-Citers, Johnny Twist, Chaka Khan, Lock and Chain, The Impressions and Streetdancer to name a few. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Santez, tenor saxophone ; Josef Ben Israel, bass ; Hamid Drake, percussion ; Marvin Sewell, guitar
Recorded live 1987.10.23, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [First piece] (12 min. 45 sec.) -- [Second piece] (13 min. 8 sec.) -- [Third piece] (18 min. 11 sec.) -- [Fourth piece] (15 min. 28 sec.) -- [Fifth piece] (18 min. 9 sec.)
Composer, saxophonist, Santex will lead this ensemble which includes bassist Josef Ben Israel, percussionist Hamid Drake and guitarist Marvin Sewell in an evening of original compositions. Santez has performed extensively in festivals across Europe and the United States. He has recorded with the likes of the X-Citers, Johnny Twist, Chaka Khan, Lock and Chain, The Impressions and Streetdancer to name a few. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Recorded live 1987.10.24, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction and first piece] (24 min. 33 sec.) -- [Second piece] (15 min. 14 sec.) -- [Third piece] (17 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Band presentation"] (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["My one and only love"] (13 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Deep jungle"] (17 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Freedom live"] (15 min. 4 sec.) -- [Outro an dband presentation] (1 min. 33 sec.)
This is the premiere of Chicago's newest Big Band. Lead by Chicago percussionist, Art "Turk" Burton, new arrangements of old standards as well as new innovative work will be presented in the intimate confines of Links Hall. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Mark Roth, performer ; Deborah Pintonelli, performer ; Paul McComas, performer
Recorded live 1987.10.17, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Deborah Pintonelli (4 min. 55 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Deborah Pintonelli (3 min. 23 sec.) -- ["H.O.D."] / Deborah Pintonelli (4 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mark Roth (25 min. 47 sec.) -- [Interlude] (10 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Paul McComas (6 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Paul McComas (13 min. 36 sec.) -- [Outro] / Paul McComas (4 min. 35 sec.)
These three "Talking Performance Artists" represent the first in a series of three performance art events at Link's Hall this season. Mark Roth is the master of walking, talking stream of consciousness monologues. Deborah Pintonelli will present character studies that are contained in her new book Meat and Memory and Paul McComas will present excerpts from the full-length performance work "Pieces." [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Connie Deanovich, speaker ; Lydia Tomkiw, speaker ; Jeffrey Brown, speaker ; Ed Moore, speaker ; Jacqui Disler, speaker ; Barry Silesky, speaker ; Diane Williams, speaker ; Karen Murai, speaker ; Art Lange, speaker ; Jane Joritz, speaker ; San Juanita Garza, speaker ; Sharon Solwitz, speaker
Recorded live 1987.10.22, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (7 min. 46 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Lydia Tomkiw (6 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lydia Tomkiw (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Connie Deanovich (7 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Connie Deanovich (1 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Karen Murai (5 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Karen Murai (1 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jacqui Disler (5 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] / San Juanita Garza (8 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / San Juanita Garza (2 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Ed Moore (5 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Ed Moore (1 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sharon Solwitz (12 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sharon Solwitz (1 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Barry Silesky (7 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Barry Silesky (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Diane Williams (5 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Diane Williams (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jane Joritz (6 min. 37 sec.) -- [Outro] (4 min. 6 sec.)
12 Chicago poets and fiction writers featuring: Connie Deanovich, Lydia Tomkiw, Jeffrey Brown, Ed Moore, Jacqui Disler, Barry Silesky, Diane Williams, Karen Murai, Art Lange, Jane Joritz, San Juanita Garza and Sharon Solwitz. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Tony Fitzpatrick, speaker ; Margaret Sullivan, speaker ; Carl Watson, speaker
Recorded live 1987.10.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 5 sec) -- ["...of my life"] / Tony Fitzpatrick (1 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Wrigley Field"] / Tony Fitzpatrick (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Elvis song"] / Tony Fitzpatrick (1 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tony Fitzpatrick (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tony Fitzpatrick (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Boys hunting"] / Tony Fitzpatrick (0 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Green boy"] / Tony Fitzpatrick (2 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Tony Fitzpatrick (2 min. 28 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Margaret Sullivan (0 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Margaret Sullivan (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Margaret Sullivan (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["You're nothing but a sperm and an egg"] / Margaret Sullivan (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["The mmon is a building"] / Margaret Sullivan (3 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Margaret Sullivan (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["There was a ... in the tunnel"] / Margaret Sullivan (0 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Margaret Sullivan (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["The girl that wanted/unprotected"] / Margaret Sullivan (3 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Margaret Sullivan (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Dear Consuelo"] / Margaret Sullivan (1 min. 37 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Carl Watson (1 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carl Watson (3 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carl Watson (2 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carl Watson (13 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carl Watson (2 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carl Watson (2 min. 27 sec.)
Three of Chicago's most intriguing poets will read their works. Fitzpatrick will read from his recent collection entitled The Neighborhood. Sullivan has been a teacher at Columbia College for the past four years where she teaches Propaganda Theory. She was recently published in DeRailed. Watson is the author of the book Anarcadium Pan but will probably read something else. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Elaine Equi, speaker ; Jerome Sala, speaker
Recorded live 1987.11.05, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Elaine Equi (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Approaching orgasm"] / Elaine Equi (2 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Lesbian corn"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Crowley slept here"] / Elaine Equi (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["The monster dances"] / Elaine Equi (0 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Relieved I left..."] / Elaine Equi (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Telephones"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Elaine Equi (0 min. 46 sec.) -- ["After a promising..."] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Cannibals in space"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["The dancer (Martha Graham), part one"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["The dancer (Martha Graham), part two"] / Elaine Equi (0 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Canaries sing..."] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Things to do in the Bible"] / Elaine Equi (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Devout to my head"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["...of objects"] / Elaine Equi (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Interlude] / Elaine Equi (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jerome Sala (4 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Clone"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["First vacation on Mars"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Hercules against the tigers of Babylon"] / Jerome Sala (2 min. 55 sec.) -- ["The great"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 59 sec.) -- ["The new cola"] / Jerome Sala (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Plastic coke"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Cherry coke"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 50 sec.) -- ["The '60s"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["John Lennon"] / Jerome Sala (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["The Hobbit"] / Jerome Sala (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Museum of Jacqui"] / Jerome Sala (3 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jerome Sala (5 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Applauses"] / Jerome Sala (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["The trip"] / Jerome Sala (2 min. 16 sec.) -- [Outro] / Jerome Sala (3 min. 8 sec.)
highlander Press will celebrate the release of Chicago Poet Jerome Sala's long awaited 3rd collection, with readings by Jerome, Elaine Equi and other entertainers. Previewing this new book Gerald Nicosia writes: "Sala's minimalist portraits of modern lost souls are as clean and precise as if one had fed Goya into a new-music synthesizer; and his ability to divine the enduring and profound in the ephemerae of daily life is uncanny, canny, and happily corny as a can of Coca-Cola--take your choice." [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Perry Venson, piano, performer ; Jack Wright, saxophone ; Eric Leonardson, performer ; Lou Mallozzi, performer
Recorded live 1987.10.30, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (22 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 45 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (26 min. 2 sec.) -- [Outro] (7 min. 2 sec.)
Perry Venson is a sound artist, performer, composer and founding member of The Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), a public access studio in Chicago. Culture with Shadows is a live sound piece for scratch turntables. Utilizing extended techniques the Scratch Orchestra will tear into many found sounds reconstructing a "Sonic Barrage" of orchestral proportions. Included in the scratch masters line-up is Eric Leonardson, drummer for the band "Hand to Mouth" and founding member of ESS. Sonorism for Artaud is a live electronic piece for digital samplers and instruments. Using sampled sounds of guitars and basses, along with live guitar and bass, the piece explores extremes of density, intensity and space. Another ESS founder, Lou Mallozzi will participate in this piece. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Kahil El Zabar, performer
Recorded live 1987.10.31, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (47 min. 34 sec.) -- [Band presentation] (3 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (24 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (24 min. 2 sec.) -- [Band presentation/Outro] (46 min. 17 sec.) -- [Party] (23 min. 21 sec.)
To celebrate our second anniversary, come and dance to the progressive funky sounds of "The Beat" lead by Chicago percussionist/composer Kahil El Zabar. El Zabar performs with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and the Orchestra Infinity to name a few. This evening's house party coincides with that most important holiday -- Halloween, so dress accordingly. There will also be a few surprise guests so don't miss it! [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Adwar Hana, performer ; George el-Masery, performer ; Siyad Raffa, performer ; Ashid Astinay, performer
Recorded live 1987.11.06, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 2 sec.) -- [Introduction] (2 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 47 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 6 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 33 sec.)
Each season Links Hall Performance Series conducts a mini-series featuring world music existing in authentic form and npractised by Chicago residents. This season we venture to the Middle-East and find local practitioners, some of which have been here since the fifties, to display, perform and speak about these ancient art forms. Representatives from all over Arabia will display their virtuosity on such instruments as the Kanoon, Darabuka, Oud, Saz and Ney. Once again Linnks Hall links the very, very old with the very, very new. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Saif Terazi, performer ; Walid Habbib, performer ; George el-Masery, performer ; Adel Fadel, performer ; Adwar Hana, performer
Recorded live 1987.11.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 28 sec.)
Each season Links Hall Performance Series conducts a mini-series featuring world music existing in authentic form and npractised by Chicago residents. This season we venture to the Middle-East and find local practitioners, some of which have been here since the fifties, to display, perform and speak about these ancient art forms. Representatives from all over Arabia will display their virtuosity on such instruments as the Kanoon, Darabuka, Oud, Saz and Ney. Once again Linnks Hall links the very, very old with the very, very new. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Saif Terazi, kanoon ; Walid Habbib, oud
Recorded live 1987.11.13, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] / Saif Terazi (28 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Walid Habbib (24 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Saif Terazi and Walid Habbib (2 min. 13 sec.)
Each season Links Hall Performance Series conducts a mini-series featuring world music existing in authentic form and npractised by Chicago residents. This season we venture to the Middle-East and find local practitioners, some of which have been here since the fifties, to display, perform and speak about these ancient art forms. Representatives from all over Arabia will display their virtuosity on such instruments as the Kanoon, Darabuka, Oud, Saz and Ney. Once again Linnks Hall links the very, very old with the very, very new. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Saif Terazi, kanoon ; Adwar Hana, darabuka ; Walid Habbib, oud ; Majid Sanaty, vocals
Recorded live 1987.11.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Instrumental] (4 min. 34 sec.) -- [Instrumental] (7 min. 22 sec.) -- [Instrumental with vocals] (4 min. 38 sec.) -- [Instrumental with vocals] (8 min. 17 sec.) -- [Instrumental with vocals] (7 min. 15 sec.) -- [Instrumental with vocals] (5 min. 39 sec.) -- [Instrumental with vocals] (4 min. 4 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 33 sec.)
Each season Links Hall Performance Series conducts a mini-series featuring world music existing in authentic form and npractised by Chicago residents. This season we venture to the Middle-East and find local practitioners, some of which have been here since the fifties, to display, perform and speak about these ancient art forms. Representatives from all over Arabia will display their virtuosity on such instruments as the Kanoon, Darabuka, Oud, Saz and Ney. Once again Linnks Hall links the very, very old with the very, very new. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Gerald Nicosia, speaker ; John Jacob, speaker
Recorded live 1987.11.19, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Jacob (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Long ride back"] / John Jacob (29 min. 11 min.) -- [Untitled] / John Jacob (0 min. 25 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Gerald Nicosia (3 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gerald Nicosia (29 min. 6 sec.) -- [Introduction] / John Jacob (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Split screen"] / John Jacob (13 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Said so..."] / John Jacob (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / John Jacob (2 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 9 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Gerald Nicosia (0 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gerald Nicosia (10 min. 10 sec.)
Gerald Nicosia is a published poet, fiction writer, playwright and critic. In 1983 his award winning biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe, was published by Grove Press. He wrote and narrated the Public Television documentary West Coast; Beat and Beyond, and this fall the American Blues Theatre will stage a reading of his play about Kerouac, Jack in Ghost Town. He will be reading from his latest unpublished novel The Spiritual Athlete. John Jacob will read from his novel tentatively titled Cut Menu. Sections of the book have won two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. He will also read other short fiction, parts of an unpublished novella and short stories. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Jeff Abell, speaker ; Phil Pilcher, saxophone ; Chris Hyatt, keyboards, ; Damon Short, percussion
Recorded live 1987.11.20, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Misreadings"] / Jeff Abell (17 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Mr. Berryman's Dream Songs, Part One"] / Jeff Abell (17 min. 60 sec.) -- ["Mr. Berryman's Dream Songs, Part Two"] / Jeff Abell (30 min. 12 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 32 sec.)
Abell will present two works -- Misreadings, a short monologue and Mr. Berryman's Dream Songs, and hour long performance featuring the jazz trio Phil Pilcher on sax, Chris Hyatt, keyboards, and Damon Short, percussion. Mr. Berryman's Dream Songs is a recreation of a piece Abell wrote seven years ago. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Sandra Binion, performer, accordion ; Laurence D. (Butch) Morris, coronet
Recorded live 1987.11.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Accordion solo] / Sandra Binion (13 min. 8 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Sandra Binion (7 min. 46 sec.) -- [Coronet solo/whispering voices] / Sandra Binion and Lawerence Morris (24 min. 17 sec.) -- [Outro] / Sandra Binion (0 min. 5 sec.) -- [End] (3 min. 1 sec.)
Performance artist Sandra Binion will present two new works. Could Have Just Thrown the Ball... is a triptych using two and three dimensional elements in the form of film, silhouette and live musicians. This piece will be a world premiere. The Result of the Search of Something Simple and Uncomplicated is an action piece for four characters incorporating film and performance. The piece features Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris on coronet, and was premiered in Berlin in 1986. Since 1978 Binion has performed in festivals and galleries across Europe and North America. [Links Hall Program Schedule, September-November 1987]
Ron Allen, speaker ; Inka Alasade [Teri Davis], speaker ; James Cornolo, bass ; Winston Damen, percussion, trombone, guitar, recorders
Recorded live 1988.04.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Trilogy of a Black Woman: I hate me lovin' you"] / Ron Allen (4 min. 37 sec.) -- ["The culinary images of you"] / Ron Allen (3 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Number thirteen"] / Ron Allen (3 min. 32 sec.) -- ["I want my body back"] / Ron Allen (3 min. 2 sec.) -- ["The lucky"] / Ron Allen (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Bobby sang the silent ear"] / Ron Allen (2 min. 27 sec.) -- ["You!"] / Ron Allen (2 min. 23 sec.) -- ["South Africa plays the music"] / Ron Allen (5 min. 8 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Inka Alasade (1 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (5 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (5 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Lovely balls"] / Inka Alasade (3 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (5 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Horizontal"] / Inka Alasade (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Sick society"] / Inka Alasade (8 min 33 sec.) -- ["Introducing the band"] / Inka Alasade (0 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (1 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (9 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Inka Alasade (9 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Personal problem/drum solo"] / Inka Alasade and Winston Damen (5 min. 36 sec.) -- ["The township regime"] / Inka Alasade (4 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Intro poem"] / Inka Alasade (2 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Harbor shark come down Somalia way"] / Inka Alasade (10 min. 56 sec.)
Ron Allen (Detroit), poet and essayist, believes "Performance poetry and poetry are one compelling act through the expression of all mediums." Ron is the Director of Horizons in Poetry (HIP) reading series in Detroit. He has been published in City Arts Quarterly, The Rag, L'Auteur, Solid Ground, The Damu and is currently working on a play. He will be performing with two local musicians.
Inka Alasade (Chicago) is part of a new generation of poets who wield the spoken word in an exploration of contemporary themes. Accompanied by bassist James Cornolo and drummer Winston Damen, Alasade employs diverse means to express her personal/political vision. AKA Teri Davis, she has gained notoriety as the six-time Champion of the Green Mill Poetry Slam.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Jacqui Disler, speaker ; Jane Joritz, speaker ; [Note: Marie Grudzien is not represented in the sound recording]
Recorded live 1988.04.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Jane Joritz (2 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Problems in science"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Valentine's Day"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Military confession"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Relevant pose"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Actions we recommend"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Steps regurgitated"] / Jane Joritz (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["A history of olfaction"] / Jane Joritz (3 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Marginal poem"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Eigh reasons why"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jane Joritz (2 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Waiting for"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Silly poem"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["St. Patrick's day"] / Jane Joritz (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jacqui Disler (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Abstraction"] / Jacqui Disler (2 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Apolitical"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Stay of execution"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Somersault"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Gestalt"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["The birth of tragedy"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 28 sec.) -- ["A fragment"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Middle pages"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Blue TV idol or bad compnany"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Masi ritual notees on 'The Unending'"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Music lesson"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Church was in a bar"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 53 sec.) -- ["Home will come"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Ax for Jim Carroll"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Dream"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 27 sec.) -- ["A lament"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Network"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 41 sec.) -- ["Epilogue"] / Jacqui Disler (0 minn. 58 sec.) -- ["Global destruction"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Trappist"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Grade of an opening jar"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Head storms"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Escape routes"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 42 sec.) -- ["A Chicago poem"] / Jacqui Disler (0 min. 51 sec.) -- ["An American love poem"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 56 sec.)
Jacqui Disler, with jaded incredulity, internalizes the errogenous zones of our sexual, industrial and political landscapes, calling them Hot Flesh Buildings in the electronic cool. Wacked out personae contact each other across lunch counters, in bars, in memory and in mirrors, where the old gods still sometimes float to the surface and get shot. Hers is a post-modern lament. Many people call her just to see if she is still alive. Come and hear her before she gets it.
Marie Grudzien has a background in painting, writing and street theatre. She started using voice and sound and has worked on mini street pieces as well as large scale theatrical works. She has been doing neo-cabaret one-woman opera style songs/stories/wailings/screamings with piano, and often accompanied by other noice apparatus.
Jane Joritz-Age-Old Enough; Health- Can bench press 75 lbs; Occupation- Pedant ?; Student at- UIC: BA from-Columbia College, Writing Dept.; Sexual Hangups- None; Biggest Fear-Dying while still in Graduate School; Major Goal in Life- Looking Attractive; Recently Published Poetry in-New American Writing and B-City.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Jon Worrell, reeds ; Irene Robbins, voal, piano ; Marion Hayden, bass ; Lawrence Williams, percussion ;
Recorded live 1988.04.15, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (17 min. 20 sec.) -- [Presentation of band members] (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Samba azul"] (8 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Lonely moment"] (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Cutting free"] (10 min. 7 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 28 sec.)
Detroit's exciting new music group was formed in 1986 when co-leaders Jon Worrell (reeds) and Irene Robbins (piano/voice) met and discovered their shared fascination with exploring jazz's frontiers; united with Marion Hayden (bass), Lawrence Williams (drums) and Marcus Belgrave (trumpet) to further the revolution which began nearly thirty years ago with the new ideas of John Coltrane, Miles Davis andn Sun Ra. All native of Detroit, each is a known composer/performer in his/her own right, bringing together a wide range of ideas, sounds and experiences. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Kent Mueller, speaker ; Leslie Reese, speaker ; Cindy Salach, speaker
Recorded live 1988.04.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Leslie Reese (5 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Portnoy"] / Leslie Reese (9 min. 51 sec.) -- ["Five percent of my brain"] / Leslie Reese (1 min. 47 sec.) -- [Introduction: "Silly untitled poems"] / Leslie Reese (0 min. 44 sec.) -- ["Silly untitled poem" (1)] / Leslie Reese (1 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Silly untitled poem" (2)] / Leslie Reese (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Silly untitled poem" (3)] / Leslie Reese (4 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Silly untitled poem" (4)] / Leslie Reese (1 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Silly untitled poem" (5)] / Leslie Reese (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["The hypnotically changing song"] / Leslie Reese (3 min. 23 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Kent Mueller (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Chicago cutlet"] / Kent Mueller (0 min. 56 sec.) -- ["From five to zero"] / Kent Mueller (2 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Five unnecessary thoughts on the eve of marriage"] / Kent Mueller (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["That Catholic bastard"] / Kent Mueller ( 2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Culture at the university in April"] / Kent Mueller (1 min. 42 sec.) -- ["Running poem for Joe Gould"] / Kent Mueller (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Lucky you"] / Kent Mueller (3 min. 29 sec.) -- ["A match"] / Kent Mueller (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Circus studies/Six things that happen to the ground"] / Kent Mueller (2 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kent Mueller (3 min. 21 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Cindy Salach (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Just missed"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Cindy Salach (1 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Taking advantage"] / Cindy Salach (1 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Russian things"] / Cindy Salach (1 min. 18 sec.) -- ["My hair's on fire"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Workman's comp"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Enter the 'Loofah Method'"] / Cindy Salach (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["The subway song"] / Cindy Salach (3 min. 6 sec.) -- ["A live birth"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 27 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 13 sec.)
Kent Mueller (Milwaukee) is a member of the Goal Zero poetry collective in Milwaukee. He has performed with the collective across the Midwest. Kent also operates the Metropolitan Gallery.
Leslie Reese (Detroit) is one of the up-and-coming poets on the Detroit scene. She has been featured in the Horizons in Poetry series in Detroit and is expecting the release of her first collection of poetry.
Cindy Salach (Chicago) is a poet, lunatic and lover...not necessarily in that order. She is a recent graduate of the Green Mill School of "Poetry Slamming." She also performs with the "Loofah Method" a combination of poetry, music, film, etc. ..., annd "Janxz," a newly formed poetry ensemble.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
The Talent Family, performers ; David Sedaris, performer ; Amy Sedaris, performer ; Paul Sedaris, performer ; Ray Waller, speaker [Note: Christopher McNamara is not represented in this event]
Recorded live 1988.05.12, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Ray Waller (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Like John Lennon said"] / Ray Waller (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Abstract blues, Captain Kangaroo"] / Ray Waller (3 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Tolstoy was here"] / Ray Waller (1 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Ray Waller (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["The nigger who fell to earth"] / Ray Waller (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Hegemony is a board game"] / Ray Waller (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Astronomy"] / Ray Waller (2 min. 56 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Ray Waller (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Thinking about Frank O'Hare"] / Ray Waller (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Death, death"] / Ray Waller (4 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Kaufman tell me"] / Ray Waller (3 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Big brother"] / Ray Waller (4 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Like this here, or like this, here"] / Ray Waller (3 min. 3 sec.) -- [Introduction] / The Talent Family [David, Amy, and Paul Sedaris] (0 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / The Talent Family [David, Amy, and Paul Sedaris] (43 min. 17 sec.)
Christopher McNamara (Windsor) edits Generations, an annual literary publication of the University of Windsor. He has organized several poetry readings in Detroit and Windsor. McNamara is also a photographer who has exhibited his works in many galleries. He has recently received awards for his documentary film Tattoo.
The Talent Family (Chicago), David, Amy and Paul Sedaris, have read and performed in North Carolina and Chicago. David has published stories in The Gentle Woman of California, Farm, White Walls, and The Journal. Amy, a graduate of the Wigfield Academy, has written extensively and performed most recently in On The Farm and My Perfect Boyfriend. Paul is the acting Director of the Haveloch Arts Center in Raleigh, N.C.
Ray Waller (Detroit) is one of the bright stars on the Detroit literary scene. He has won 11 Tompkins Awards for fiction, poetry, essay and drama and 5 Brueton Awards in the same media; second prize in the Black Reading Month competition, 1986 The Judith Siegal Pearson Award for fiction in 1986. He has been featured in a number of public readings and published in several small presses and magazines.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Damon Short, percussion ; Jeff Newell, reeds ; Chuck Burdelik, reeds ; Chris Hyatt, keyboard, percussion ; Gary Nordstrom, bass
Recorded live 1988.04.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (10 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 20 sec.)
Penguin Shuffle is the debut album of drummer/composer Damon Short. Recorded in 1986, the album is a combination of two separate recording sessions, featuring some of the best known modern musicians in New Orleans and several of the leading jazz and new music figures from the Chicago area. The New Orleans sessions feature Gramavision recording artist Tony Dagradi (reeds) and guitarist Steve Masakowski. The Chicago recordings feature Chuck Burdelik (reeds), Andre Caporaso (guitar) and Joe Pinzarrone (piano). Damon Short currently performs in a variety of jazz and new music situations in Chicago and leads his own group. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Lydia Tomkiw, performer, speaker ; Don Hedeker, performer
Recorded live 1988.04.09, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: Introduction (1 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Somewhat Blaker Street"] (3 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Cerebral dance"] (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Delmore"] (3 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Sinister"] (4 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Talking"] (1 min. 3 sec.) -- ["All the young dudes"] (3 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Agitation"] (3 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Tonight"] (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Tuesday tastes good"] (2 min. 57 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 18 sec.) -- [Break] (13 min. 3 sec.)
The Secret Like Crazy, Algebra Suicide's fifth release, includes 20 selections and is a comprehensive collection of the group's material, including rare compilation contributions, selections from their previous records which are currently out of print and many never-before-released songs. The record is a joint release by RRRecords of Massachusetts, and the DOM label of West Germany.
Algebra Suicide was formed in 1982 by poet Lydia Tomkiw and musician Don Hedeker. Blending minimalistic music and spoken word, the group has gained a world-wide reputation and critical acclaim for their unique sound, integration of text and music, and their visually elaborate live performances.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Tom Cora, cello
Recorded live 1988.04.08, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (16 min. 24 sec.) -- [Applause] (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Tuning] (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 12 sec.)
Tom Cora was born in 1953 in the rural town of Yancey Mills, Virginia. After a brief career as a jazz guitarist in Washington D.C., Cora dropped guitar, took up the cello and studied with Casals' student Louis Garcia Renart. He went on to explore non-idiomatic improvising and Turkish and European folk music, as well as constructing instruments and playing with theh Moose Skowron Memorial Tuned Metal Ensemble.
In the late '70s Tom moved to Hurley, New York to work at the Creative Music Foundation as Director of admissions. There he met Eugene Chadbourne and began a long working relationship, collaborating on the There'll Be No Tears album. Tom also toured Europe with Karl Berger's band, which included Oliver Lake, George Lewis and Leroy Jenkins.
Moving to New York City in 1980 led Cora to his improvised work John Zorn, David Moss, Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger, Bob Ostertag, George Cartwright, Bill Laswell and many others. In 1982 Tom and Fred Frith formed Skeleton Crew and were joined in 1985 by Zeena Parkins.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Bill Frisell, guitar ; Ikue Mori, percussion ; Jim Staley, trombone
Recorded live 1988.04.23, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 9 sec.) -- [Set break] (3 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 44 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 38 sec.) -- [6 min. 40 sec.)
Bill Frissell, guitarist, has performed in the U.S. and throughout Europe with the Paul Motain Band, Jan Garbarek Group, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Carla Bley, The Cologne Radio Orchestra, Julius Hemphill's Jah Band, Bass Desires and others. Bill has performed solo concerts and has recently formed his own band with Joey Brown, Kermit Driscoll and Hank Roberts.
Ikue Mori, drummer/composer, moved to N.Y.C in 1977 and, along with Arto Lyndsay and Robin Crutchfield, formed DNA, which was one of the earliest and most influential avant-garde art/rock bands. In 1983, she began extensive work with improvisation.
Jim Staley, trombonist/composer, moved to N.Y.C in 1978 and has worked with many of the musicians and dancers associated with New York's avant-garde. At the same time, Jim, along with David Weinstein began ROULETTE, a performance space that presents over sixty experimental/avant-garde music and intermedia events a year. Staley has recently released MUMBO JUMBO (Rift 12), a double recording of different trio combinations with Wayne Horvitz & Elliot Sharp, Shelley Hirsch & Samm Bennett, Ikue Mori & Bill Frisell, and Fred Frith & John Zorn.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Damon Short, percussion ; Jeff Newell, reeds ; Chuck Burdelik, reeds ; Chris Hyatt, keyboard, percussion ; Gary Nordstrom, bass
Recorded live 1988.04.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 24 sec.) -- [Band introductions] (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["S.O.L."] (15 min. 32 sec.) -- [Song introduction] (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Melting crystals"] (17 min. 31 sec.) -- [Song introduction] (1 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Monkey slippers"] (13 min. 1 sec.) -- [Set break] (2 minn. 14 sec.) -- ["Window of vulnerability"] (5 min. 33 sec)
Penguin Shuffle is the debut album of drummer/composer Damon Short. Recorded in 1986, the album is a combination of two separate recording sessions, featuring some of the best known modern musicians in New Orleans and several of the leading jazz and new music figures from the Chicago area. The New Orleans sessions feature Gramavision recording artist Tony Dagradi (reeds) and guitarist Steve Masakowski. The Chicago recordings feature Chuck Burdelik (reeds), Andre Caporaso (guitar) and Joe Pinzarrone (piano). Damon Short currently performs in a variety of jazz and new music situations in Chicago and leads his own group. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Joseph Celli, oboe ; Kent Kessler, bass ; Daniel Scanlan, violin ; Don Meckley, performer/shortwave radio
Recorded live 1988.04.16, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 47 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 9 sec.) -- [Introduction] (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 1 sec.) -- [Set break] (1 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (17 min. 24 sec.)
Composer/oboist Joseph Celli has for the past decade committed his time to theh premiering of over 35 works written for him by various composers as well as his own compositions. After studies with Ray Still and Grover Schiltz of the Chicago Symphony and Albert Goltzer of the N.Y. Philharmonic, he began to commission and collaborate with composers to create an extensive new body of work for the oboe and English horn.
Mr. Celli is virtually the only American oboist specializing in the performance of new and experimental music in all media and is internationally recognized for developing totally new sonic possibilities for the instrument. Mr. Celli was also the co-founder and Director of Real Art Ways, a New England Regional Center for new and experimental art, and is currently the Executive Director for New Music America '88 to be held in Miami, Florida.
This evening Mr. Celli will perform solo oboe as well as duets with three Chicago artists: bassist Kent Kessler, violinst Daniel Scanlan and shortwave radio artist Don Meckley.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Jim O'Rourke, guitar ; Jeff Kowalkowski, performer ; Jim Slattery, performer ; Timi Mulveyna, performer ; Perry Venson, performer ; Steve Moletor, performer
Recorded live 1988.04.22, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 50 sec.) -- [Untitled] (23 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Concerto for director"] (24 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 28 sec.)
These wild improvisors, led by guitarist/electronicist Jim O'Rourke, include Jeff Kowalkowski, Jim Slattery, Timi Mulveyna, Perry Venson, and Steve Moletor. They incorporate a wide variety of electronic and acoustic instruments in a unique blend of rhythmic and textural exposition. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Achy Obejas, speaker ; Susan Firer, speaker ; Yolanda Martinez, speaker
Recorded live 1988.04.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Yolanda Martinez (2 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Yolanda Martinez (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Lunch with Saint Theodora"] / Yolanda Martinez (4 min. 3 sec.) -- ["I am"] / Yolanda Martinez (2 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Spanish proud"] / Yolanda Martinez (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Grandfather"] / Yolanda Martinez (3 min. 11 sec.) -- ["August heat night"] / Yolanda Martinez (3 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Streets of desire"] / Yolanda Martinez (3 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Anundas jumping"] / Yolanda Martinez (4 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Yolanda Martinez (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Soon to be a major motion picture"] / Yolanda Martinez (4 min. 16 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Achy Obejas (1 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Achy Obejas (2 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Come to the fox"] / Achy Obejas (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["A public place"] / Achy Obejas (2 min. 55 sec.) -- ["Paging love at the airport"] / Achy Obejas (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Berlin"] / Achy Obejas (4 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Sleeping apart"] / Achy Obejas (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Sunday"] / Achy Obejas (3 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Achy Obejas (4 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Technicalities"] / Achy Obejas (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Being released"] / Achy Obejas (3 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Kimberly"] / Achy Obejas (1 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Achy Obejas (2 min. 59 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Susan Firer (2 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Cheryl's mad about plaid"] / Susan Firer (2 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Pink February"] / Susan Firer (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Saxoophone Julie"] / Susan Firer (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["A night game in Menominee Park"] / Susan Firer (2 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Nineteen fifty-six (1956)"] / Susan Firer (5 min. 54 sec.) -- ["The wild life of death true"] / Susan Firer (0 min 20 sec.) -- ["Breath and bone at the Milwaukee County Zoo"] / Susan Firer (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["The woman from Matoon"] / Susan Firer (3 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Violent Femmes"] / Susan Firer (2 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Esterburgh Park"] / Susan Firer (3 min. 11 sec.)
Achy Obejas (Chicago) is a Cuban-American writer. A regular contributor to the Reader, she has also published in a variety of literary publications, including The Beloit Review , Journal, The Antigonish Review, Ikon, Abraxas, Third Woman, Revista, Chicano Requena, Sinister Wisdom, Helicon Nine and many others. In 1986, she received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. in 1987, she served as a media strategist for the Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Washington.
Susan Firer's (Milwaukee) work has been published in nearly 40 publications and several anthologies. Her book, My Life with the Tsar and Other Poems was published by New River Press in 1979. She has received honorable mention in the Hiram Poetry Review National Henry Dumas Poetry Awards in 1971, Academy of American Poets Prize in 1977, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in 1979 and was a finalist in the Minnesota Voices project in 1985.
Yolanda Martinez (Milwaukee) is a member of Goal Zero, a poetry collective in Milwaukee. She has made frequent appearances with the collective across Wisconsin and the Midwest.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Nelli Cherkovski, performer
Recorded live 1988.00.00, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (3 min. 57 sec.) -- ["Gilgamesh"] (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Neruda"] (0 min. 58 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 19 sec.) -- ["The deluded voice of your face"] (1 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Emily pt. 5"] (5 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Gertrude Stein in America"] (3 min. 55 sec.) -- ["Death is welcome here"] (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Really, it isn't ego"] (0 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Animal"] (2 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Shadows fill light"] (2 min. 26 sec.) -- ["My friends go down to Nicaragu"] (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["After visiting the AIDS ward"] (6 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Inside your body"] (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["A job"] (2 min. 1 sec.) -- [Excerpts from Whitman's Wild Children, Bukowski chapter] (9 min. 4 sec.) -- [Excerpt from Whitman's Wild Children, Harold Norse chapter] (6 min. 2 sec.) -- [Excerpt from Whitman's Wild Children, Ferlinghetti chapter] (8 min. 36 sec.) -- ["I woke up at Four a.m.," excerpt] (10 min. 24 sec.)
Neeli Cherkovski's most recent book, Whitman's Wild Children, was published by the Lapis Press of L.A. and S.F. in 1987. The book is a rare combination of anecdote and literary criticism focused on Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Wieners, William Everson and many others.
Animal and Other Poems is scheduled for publication by Pennywhistle Press in late 1988.
In 1983, Avant Books published Clear Wind, which received widespread critical acclaim.
Together with Raymond Foye, Cherkovski edited the 20th anniversary issue of Beatitude, the San Francisco literary journal founded in 1959 by Bob Kaufman and Allen Ginsberg. In the late 1960s, Cherkovski edited Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with poet/novelist Charles Bukowski, and Bukowski and Paul Vangelisti, edited An Anthology of L.A. Poetry. Cherkovski has authored several books and gives lectures on California literature and is known as an exciting reader of his own prose and poetry. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Don Meckkley, performer, shortwave radio
Recorded live 1988.05.06, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (11 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Heavy sounding movie music"] (2 min. 6 sec.) -- [Introduction and music] (9 min. 15 sec.) -- [Water sculptures/percussion piece] (4 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Water sculptures/percussion piece, continued] (5 min. 45 sec.) -- [Set break] (1 min. 47 sec.) -- [Set break/John Cage] (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Radio piece] (7 min. 10 sec.) -- [Radio piece, continued] (3 min. 31 sec.) -- [Radio piece, continued] (11 min. 6 sec.) -- [End] (1 min. 24 sec.)
Arguably one of the "Best damned Shortwave Radio players in the United States" (Daniel Scanlan), Don Meckley created unsurpassed sonic landscapes through the use of multiple shortwave radios, water-dripping inventions (called hydro-kalimbas), tapes and other low-tech devices. He has worked as a soloist, as well as with various music groups including Liof Munimula, Musica Menta, Project Clamdance, Pappas New Instrument Ensemble, and Cococello Club. He has also worked with performance artists, choreographers, in theater, film, and video, including with Kaja Overstreet, Jean Parisi, Auste, Christine Tamblyn and many others. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Katherine Hughes, violin, bass clarinet; Gene Coleman, performer
Recorded live 1988.06.03, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (13 min. 1 sec.) -- [Tuning] (2 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 58 sec.) -- [Second movement] (2 min. 24 sec.) -- [Third movement/solo violin] (7 min. 19 sec.)
Katherine Hughes (violinist) has brought a strong orientation in classical music to a wide variety of improvising ensembles--from rock and jazz bands to new music groups such as Musica Menta. She has also written music for films and has produced two rock videos.
Gene Coleman is a composer, visual artist and musician. He is the founder of Plethora, an interdisciplinary ensemble, and Rx, a concert space for contemporary music.
Their work employs improvisation in the context of compositional structure. Highlighting the evening will be a concerto for violin, bass clarinet and chamber ensemble. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Kahil El'Zabar, percussion ; Joseph Bowie, trombone ; Edward Wilkerson, Jr., saxophone, keyboards, vocals
Recorded live 1988.05.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Getting situated"] (1 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] (22 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (21 min. 41 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 49 sec.) -- [Set break] (0 min. 27 sec.) -- [Introduction] (1 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (16 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Morning song"] (13 min. 7 sec.)
Kahil El'Zabar, the group's founder, is a multi-percussionist, vocalist, dramatist, dancer, poet, and composer. El' Zabar has the ability to transmit alluring melodies through complex rhythmic foundations. He has performed with Lester Bowie, David Murray, Cannonball Adderly, Stevie Wonder and Dizzy Gillespie, to name a few.
Joseph Bowie is an internationally renowned funkmaster, best known for his 21st century band Defunkt. One of the boldest trombonists in the world, Mr. Bowie rivets you with his range of colors and spell binding passion. He has worked with Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Henry Threadgill and many more.
Edward Wilkerson, Jr. is a musician who projects brilliance in all of his musical endeavors. His music instills an indepth understanding of concept, technique and history, while still conveying a strong sense of self.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Kerry Leung, p'ai hsiao (bamboo flute), p'ip'a (Chinese guitar)
Recorded live 1988.05.13, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (3 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Memories of my hometown"] (5 min. 0 sec.) -- [Talk] (0 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 1 sec.) -- [Talk] (1 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 29 sec.) -- [Set break/introduction to p'ip'a] (2 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled p'ip'a composition] (2 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 15 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 15 sec.)
Kerry Leung performs traditional folk music of the Chinese countryside. On Friday, May 13, Mr. leung will display his virtuosity on the P'ai Hsiao (bamboo flute) and the P'ip'a (Chinese guitar). [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Fan Wei-Tsu, zheng (Chinese zither)
Recorded live 1988.05.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 51 sec.) -- ["Variations on a folk tune"] (7 min. 12 sec.) -- [Tuning] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Meditation"] (4 min. 30 sec.) -- [Talk] (3 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Four pieces for storytellers"] (4 min. 13 sec.) -- [Tuning] (3 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Lantera festival music"] (9 min. 19 sec.) -- [Introduction to next piece] (2 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Suite: Spring harmonies by moonlight river"] (12 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Toccata: Falcon and Swan"] (9 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Eroica"] (7 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Little piece based on folk song"] (4 min. 22 sec.)
Fan Wei-Tsu began studying Zheng (Chinese zither) in his early teens. In 1977, as the youngest contestant in the adult division, he won the National Music Competition in Taiwan. In 1981, he won second place in the prestigious Golden Lion Music Competition. Since then, he has made frequent appearances in concerts and radio programs. Performing on May 14, Mr. Fan will present Chinese Classical Music. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Sheila Donohue, performer ; Janice Finney, performer ; Julius Klein, performer
Recorded live 1988.05.19, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Janice Finney (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Tarzan movies/Morning mist on the mountains"] / Janice Finney (10 min. 17 sec.) -- ["On the other side of the planet"] / Janice Finney (9 min. 33 sec.) -- ["When getting seasick isn't the worst that can happen"] / Janice Finney (3 min. 30 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Sheila Donohue (0 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sheila Donohue (3 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Henry is a carp I know"] / Sheila Donohue (3 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Play the game with me?"] / Sheila Donohue (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["The avalance expert (in parts)"] / Sheila Donohue (10 min. 13 sec.) -- ["She lived her life like a number three pencil"] / Sheila Donohue (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sheila Donohue (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sheila Donohue (3 min. 11 sec.) -- ["I saw you"] / Sheila Donohue (2 min. 25 sec.) -- [Intermission] (5 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Julius Klein (6 min. 8 sec.)
Sheila Donohue (Chicago) performs solo and ensemble works regularly at the Green Mill, Adolfs, Weeds, and at scheduled college campus events. Her work appears in Naming the Daytime Moon, Stories and Poems by Chicago Woman.
Janice Finney (Chicago), poet and playwright, has worked in Chicago's Off-Loop Theater since 1979. Janice has been featured several times at the Green Mill Poetry Slam and on Dial-A-Poem Chicago. Co-author of "That Apple Sure Don't Shine" produced last season by the Chicago Theater Company, Janice's Plays have been produced by Victory Gardens Theater and Black Bird Theater.
Julius Klein (New York) formerly of Chicago, is known for work in many disciplines including music, film, live performance and large scale installations. Everything he does is a part of a bigger picture. He has shown his works in galleries and clubs in N.Y. and Chicago.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Recorded live 1988.06.04, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (58 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (21 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (31 min. 16 sec.)
"The Magazine Journal of Free Improvisation," the Improvisor is an English speaking journal of writings and documentation concerning free improvisation. This journal circulates world wide to improvising musicians and is an invaluable guide to the state of the art. This benefit coincides with other benefits in Birmingham, Chattanooga, Philadelphia, New York and Santa Cruz. It will feature several Chicago Improvisation Artists and will be organized by Perry Venson. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Frank Melcori, performer ; Bob Friedman, percussion
Recorded live 1988.05.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Drum solo] (10 min. 6 sec.) -- [Introduction/Captain/Singing] (7 min. 8 sec.) -- [Foley/daydream] (10 min. 24 sec.) -- [Letter] (8 min. 1 sec.) -- [Man overboard] (7 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 16 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 1 sec.)
Frank Melcori has been acting and writing in Chicago for the past ten years. He is a member of the Pros Arts Studio and is a co-founder of the Italian American Theater.
"The Cuban Missile Crisis" describes a young sailors voyage home from Cuba in the fall of 1962, and the crisis heh undergoes on his own ship. Like all sea tales, the performance is a romance-undercut, nonetheless, with the grim reality of military life and the racism it fosters.
In this performance, Frank will be accompanied on drums and percussion by Bob Friedman.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Mitch Hegfill, speaker ; Kimberly Lyons, speaker ; Lornda Smedman, speaker
Recorded live 1988.06.02, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Lorna Smedman (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Little in the Bronx"] / Lorna Smedman (3 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Figurehead"] / Lorna Smedman (3 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Collage"] / Lorna Smedman (2 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorna Smedman (3 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Double Play," I] / Lorna Smedman (2 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Double Play," II] / Lorna Smedman (1 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Double Play," III] / Lorna Smedman (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Ax"] / Lorna Smedman (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Drive"] / Lorna Smedman (1 min. 45 sec.) -- ["Twenty thirty"] / Lorna Smedman (2 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Dangers of reading"] / Lorna Smedman (1 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Twelfth street stories"] / Lorna Smedman (3 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Pitch-buy stuff"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Description abandoned"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["A President's Polp"] / Mitch Hegfill (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Country comforts"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Blue"] / Mitch Hegfill (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Proposition"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mitch Hegfill (3 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mitch Hegfill (3 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Guns that surround us; killer in the rain"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 8 sec.) -- ["When people act obsequious"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Poem"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["There are seven big pieces of land"] / Mitch Hegfill (1 min. 38 sec.) -- ["The buzzer goes off upstairs"] / Mitch Hegfill (2 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Thirtieth Song of Petrarch (homeophonic translation)"] / Mitch Hegfill (4 min. 21 sec.) -- ["May Day"] / Mitch Hegfill (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Kimberly Lyons (2 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Thai coffee"] / Kimberly Lyons (1 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Why do I have to wait"] / Kimberly Lyons (1 min. 28 sec.) -- ["In Padua"] / Kimberly Lyons (10 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Freaky diary"] / Kimberly Lyons (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Afra"] / Kimberly Lyons (2 min. 39 sec.)
Mitch Hegfill is the author of No Precautions (Next Century Press). His poems have been published in Gallery Works and Giants Play Well in the Drizzle. He is the co-editor of Prospect Books and has organized reading series in N.Y.C. at the Ear Inn and other places.
Kimberly Lyons is the author of Strategies, (Prospect Books) and Six Poems (Lines). Her poems have appeared in Sulfur, Giants Play Well in the Drizzle, and Red Weather. She is a native of Chicago and currently the Program Coordinator for The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in N.Y.C.
Lorna Smedman is the author of Dangers of Reading (Prospect Books). She has published poems in Transfer, Bombay Gin and other magazines. She has been a cook for Barbara Streisand (three days), a gardener and editor of the St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Frank Farrell, performer ; Ben Masterson, performer
Recorded live 1988.09.22, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["And when it comes right down to it"] (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Shakespeare Sonnet"] (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["A song about myself, when I have fears"] (6 min. 27 sec.) -- ["My heart aches..."] (6 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Suicide note/fantastic story"] (20 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Just keep driving"] (11 min. 2 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 51 sec.)
When I have fears is a concert of music and poetry by Frank Farrell and musician Ben Masterson featuring works by William Shakespeare, John Keats, H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Weill, Melanie and others.
Frank Farrell has been at such theaters as the Goodman, Body Politic, Court, Organic, Second City and Steppenwolf. This past spring he traveled to Cleveland to perform with the Great Lakes Theater Festival in their production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and this past summer played Al Shean in Minnie's Boys with the National Jewish Theater and Dogberry in Equity Library Theater's Much Ado About Nothing.
He was the founder of the Free Shakespeare Company and the Temporary Theater Company. As Rap Master Johnnie Keats, Mr. Farrell has appeared at the Green Mill, Morning, Second City and as part of the Theater Project Company's Performer's Festival '87 in St. Louis winning "Best of the Evening." Frank is a graduate of the Drama Studio/London and has received four Joseph Jefferson Recommendations for his acting in Chicago.
He has taught at Columbia College, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College and currently teaches Shakespeare at the Training Center for the Working Actor.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Joyce Caskey, speaker ; Karen Nystrom, speaker ; John Sheehan, speaker ; Dave Cooper, speaker ; Mike Barrett, speaker ; Rob Van Tuyle, speaker
Recorded live 1988.00.00, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction/"A good urban assault weapon"] (3 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Terror"] (32 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Tattoo"] / Marc Smith (13 min. 39 sec.) [Note: Last track is the first of inventory number LH33(c)]
The Chicago Poetry Ensemble, Joyce Caskey, Karen Nystrom, John Sheehan, Dave Cooper, Mike Barrett and Rob Van Tuyle was collected from the GET ME HIGH jazz club's open mike and pounded into shape presenting dozens of shows at the Green Mill Lounge during 1986-87.
In the last two years the group has hosted a weekly gig at Scenes book shop, performed at Cabaret Voltaire, Berlin, Wings, Links Hall and various colleges including the 1988 University of Chicago Festival of the Arts.
The ensemble was featured in cable TV production of the Spoon River Anthology and has appeared on Evanston's cable access Friday Club.
In the June of 1988 the ensemble, in collaboration with Jean Howard, caused a sensation with Psychopoetica: What Are You Afraid Of? Full length original works include Animal Songs which will be aired on the Skokie Public access station in September 1988.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Marc Smith, performer
Recorded live 1988.09.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Tattoo"] (38 min. 5 sec.) [Note: First track is the last of inventory number LH33(b)] -- ["Thanks"] (1 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Poem about a kid"] (3 min. 23 sec.) -- ["It don't matter to me"] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Bluesy love poem"] (3 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Cindy Salach/The day they ran out of things to say"] (2 min. 21 sec.) -- ["I said hey you"] (6 min. 30 sec.) -- ["I wanted to do so many things"] (4 min. 8 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 15 sec.)
Poet, performer, director, and promoter Marc Smith has brought national attention to Chicago's poetry community with the establishment of the Uptown Poetry Slam--the nation's most popular weekly poetry exhibition.
His open view of what poetry should be and should do (often criticized by the "knowing" institutions) "has cracked the eggheads on the edge of their teflon pans and fried their sheltered egos into an omelette of 'has been.'"
With the creation of the Chicago Poetry Ensemble and the Bob Shakespeare Poetry Band, Smith has inspired a great (and growing) number of Chicago's most talented and artistically courageous poets to shake off the incestuous notion that poetry belongs to a high-minded few; and has prompted them to give poetry back to the people, who not only need it, but want it more than the elite (who can't seem to catch anyone's attention except their own) care to admit.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Dan Pearson, speaker ; Lorri Jackson, speaker
Recorded live 1988.10.06, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Upholsterers"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Tacos in darkness"] / Dan Pearson (3 min. 30 sec.) -- ["March fifth ends forever"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Show in August"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Vague disappearances"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Professional secrets"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Only in America"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Newsmaker"] / Dan Pearson (3 min. 23 sec.) -- ["The intellectual] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Cadmium"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Zulus in Norway"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["At the supermarket"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Confessions of an unprepared poet"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Beyond strange"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Karma Calling"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Deja now"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 55 sec.) -- ["And now a few words from the future of our country overheard in a Wendy's Restaurant"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Conundrum: the Bug or the Bus Pass"] / Dan Pearson (3 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Spring cleaning"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Just for fun"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Beyond help"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Monkey business"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["The masculine agreement"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Mad about Marilyn"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Owl service"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 9 sec.) -- ["APB Reykjavic"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Borderline psychotic cafe"] / Dan Pearson (3 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Lettuce on the move"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 33 sec.) -- ["A bad day"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 42 sec.) -- ["A matter of record"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Taking advantage of good nature"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 6 sec.) -- ["Furor and chagrin"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 52 sec.) -- ["Tonight is the night"] / Dan Pearson (0 min. 57 sec.) -- ["Autumn leaves"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 43 sec.) -- ["Flight of plastic grocery bag"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Urban mystery number 12"] / Dan Pearson (2 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Advice from a stranger"] / Dan Pearson (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Lorri Jackson (4 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Idle conversation"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 45 sec.) -- ["I move a naive poem"] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Talking"] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 31 sec.) -- ["John at the bar"] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Here's my contribution"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Letters to Dawn"] / Lorri Jackson (4 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Play chicken"] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["New Jersey poem"] / Lorri Jackson (3 min. 22 sec.) -- ["For Sadie Mae"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Letter to Sadie"] / Lorri Jackson (4 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Love is a traffic violation"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["I have no excuse"] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["We is a trap"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Dream as I was snorting"] / Lorri Jackson (1 min. 23 sec.) -- [End] / Lorri Jackson (2 min. 14 sec.)
Dan Pearson is a Chicago native who in addition to his interest in poetry has written plays, movie reviews and a lot of phone messages. His work has appeared in Overtures, Dial-a-Poem Chicago, Uni-Verse, and periodicals of the Salvation Army and the Chicago Public Library. His movie reviews can be seen in The Southtown Economist and heard on WBEZ. He has read at the Green Mill, Northeastern Illinois University and the lounge car of an Amtrak train heading east on New Year's Eve. He enjoys cheeseburgers, world travel and the love of a good woman with beach front property.
Lorri Jackson is just a poet. Someone has recently published a collection of her work. The book is called New Logic for Old Sores. The press is called Static Image. She swears she's through bugging people with the things that bother her, but we know she's lying. "When I fall off a horse, I don't get back on. I send it to the glue factory."
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
David Ayer, performer ; Harry Castle, performer ; Phil Pilcher, performer ; Joseph Pinzarrone, performer ; Eugene X. Rator, performer ; Damon Short, performer ; Larry Soderquist, performer
Recorded live 1988.09.30, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Electronics/percussion] (17 min. 39 sec.) -- [Electronics/percussions/vocals] (24 min. 19 sec.) -- [Break] (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 40 sec.) -- [Saxophone solo] (8 min. 0 sec.) -- [Voices] (19 min. 37 sec.) -- [End] (18 min. 24 sec.)
The world of experimental art is no exception to the mood and greed of the Reagen Era. In 1984, the ideological lethargy among members of the radical music group Bee Cubed created the climate for a dramatic takeover of Henley Enterprises (creators of the blue-collar projection 3-D and techno-folk art). Henley, free from the psychic consequences of popular music, absorbed Bee Cubed without a struggle. A new tax shelter was formed and a corporate entity was born, The Potato Engineers, with Eastern block connections and a high technology background. Recent engineer acquisitions/mergers include Enk and Enkidu. The Potato Engineers will present hostile takeovers in multi-megalomedia performance style throughout the current fiscal year as a part of their "Art of Business" cycle (abstract parallels to Real Life that imply true business relationships between artist-persons living and dead). The engineers are David Ayer, Harry Castle, Phil Pilcher, Joseph Pinzarrone, Eugene X. Rator, Damon Short and Larry Soderquist.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie, performer ; African-American Unity Ensemble, performers
Recorded live 1988.10.01, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 58 sec.) -- ["Adogo from Daho"] (9 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Tour/What a drum says"] (3 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Naningo/Keep your promises"] (3 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Love one another"] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 58 sec.) -- ["Be nice to people"] (2 min. 22 sec.) -- [Introduction: "Puberty Dance"] (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Puberty dance"] (9 min. 33 sec.) -- [Intermission/Introduction: "War dance"] (2 min. 28 sec.) -- ["War dance"] (14 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Drum display"] (8 min. 51 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 17 sec.) -- [Finale] (13 min. 35 sec.) -- [Encore] (5 min. 26 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 1 sec.)
Midawo Gideon Foil Alorwoyie is recognized as one of the most talented professional African musician's and dancer's in the world today. Presently a teacher of African music and dance at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, he is also the founder and artistic director of the African-American Unity Ensemble. From 1964-1984, he was associated with the National Dance Company of Ghana. In the dance company, Gideon served as teacher and chief Master Drummer. He founded the Foli's Concert Troupe, Accra Ghana in 1972, receiving in 1977 the Martin Luther King Award from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has toured extensively throughout France, Yugoslavia, the U.S.S.R., Germany, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Tamara Madison, performer ; Sharese Locke, performer
Recorded live 1988.10.20, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 55 sec.) -- ["Wade in the water..."] (21 min. 14 sec.) -- ["There are our children"] (4 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Slam song"] (4 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Extra extra read all about it/DooWop ass"] (9 min. 24 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 30 sec.) -- ["I have not forgotten"] (2 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Honey, what a love poem"] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Swings my soul"] (4 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Touch me where sun don't shine"] (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Softness"] (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Intimate piece"] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Fine flowing breeze"] (1 min. 57 sec.)
Addressing some of the most crucial social issues of contemporary men and women, Poetry in Motion is a dynamic presentation of original poetry by Chicago poets Tamara Madison and Sharese Locke. Rather than a poetry reading, Poetry in Motion presents characters themselves who have inspired the poets: an old woman with centuries in her eyes, a Chicago Loop newspaper man/suicide witness, a young mother struggling in the bosom of America's plenty, youth in love with love...With song and dance and spirit tongues Poetry in Motion wraps itself around the joys and pains of this world, seeking a path of understanding graced with love undaunted.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
John Bussa, performer ; James Gillespie, guitar
Recorded live 1988.10.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["West with the night"] (3 min. 48 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Our kumbaya song"] (3 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Bitch song"] (3 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 32 sec.) -- [Set break] (6 min. 13 sec.) -- ["Dedicated to Donald Trump"] (6 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Dedicated to the girls that walk the North Ave. bridge"] (5 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Song inspired by explorer dude"] (7 min. 32 sec.)
From Braunt to Brecht to Brel to Bowie, singer-songwriter John Bussa will perform a concert of new music written with guitarist James Gillespie. Between 1982 and 1985 Bussa wrote, produced and performed six original performance works including the musical vaudeville: Songs From the City of Dead Umbrellas (1985) and one recording: Vampire Birds (1986). Of Bussa's work, the late Richard Pollack critic for Chicago Magazine and New Art Examiner has written:..."visually intricate and intriguing...music, media and madness come together in the work of John Bussa. A winning performer, a strong, yound talent." This is John's first solo performance in Chicago in over two years.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Eugene Chadbourne, performer
Recorded live 1988.10.15, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Are you experienced?" (Hendrix)] (12 min. 48 sec.) -- ["I don't live today/I don't mind/If you loved me/etc."/Medley] (5 min. 16 sec.) -- ["America stands tall/Why must my country/When the Fuehrer says"] (9 min. 30 sec.) -- ["The times are a changin'"] (4 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 58 sec.) -- [Intermission] (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Jesus something/Ollie's playhouse"] (7 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Takes longer sayin' yes than sayin' no"] (15 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Blues number"] (8 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Taking requests"] (2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["Purple haze"] (10 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Goodbye blues"] (5 min. 19 sec.) -- [Encore/Laughter] (7 min. 58 sec.) -- [Outro/Encore] (15 min. 42 sec.) -- [Encore: "Sittin' on the dock of the bay"] (6 min. 7 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 21 sec.)
For the fourth year in a row, Eugene Chadbourne will disgrace the stage of the Links Hall Performance Series with a new set of songs/noises from his ever widening array of country flavored protest songs, '60s revival mutations, and politically astute observations (along with a few hot and strange guitar licks). Since his last Links Hall appearance, Chadbourne has been working with Camper Van Chadbourne-an off shoot of Camper Van Beethoven. He has also toured extensively across the United States and Europe. He has several albums that are waiting release as well as a huge quantity of live cassettes that are available by mail order or at this Links Hall event.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Andy Soma, performer
Recorded live 1988.10.08, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contetns: [Introduction] (2 min. 37 sec.) -- [Introduction, continued] (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["In the chapel"] (3 min. 25 sec.) -- ["A film by Jim Morrison"] (2 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Biography of Jim Morrison"] (2 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 48 sec.) -- ["Supernatural poetry/The shadow people"] (2 min. 46 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Communion/Island"] (9 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Passing a joint"] (2 min. 7 sec.) -- ["The Doors/The End"] (13 min. 29 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 43 sec.)
Pretend It's The End was first performed in May of 1988 at the Ohio Theater in New York as part of the Tweed Ensemble's New Works Festival. It is a ritual lip-sync using film, props and music to create a celebratory commemorative event in the tradition of the Catholic Mass, more specifically, celebrating the traditions of bacchanalian ecstatic transport of celebrants which have codified and whose residue is evident in rituals such as the catholic mass.
The lip sync as an act of total possession.
Rock's psychedelic period as a religious manifestation
The "lead singer" as shamanic high priest
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Lisa Buscani, speaker ; Patricia Smith, speaker
Recorded live 1988.10.13, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Patricia Smith (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Boy sneezes, head explodes"] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Your man"] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 39 sec.) -- ["March 19, 1980"] / Patricia Smith (3 min. 19 sec.) -- ["After Dirk"] / Patricia Smith (1 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Single in the eighties, or how I learned to love being a statistic"] / Patricia Smith (4 min. 28 sec.) -- ["As far as blood goes"] / Patricia Smith (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Fifty singles"] / Patricia Smith (3 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Shadow boxing"] / Patricia Smith (4 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Marquette Park, 1986"] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["I think it's dead"] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Whatever happened to Lola Falana"] / Patricia Smith (3 min. 21 sec.) -- ["The infant was in critical condition..."] / Patricia Smith (3 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Break heart"] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Judgement"] / Patricia Smith (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["You could almost say..."] / Patricia Smith (4 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Lisa Buscani (1 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Because of The Blues Men"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Home"] / Lisa Buscani (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Korea"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 37 sec.) -- ["I am the fourth Supreme"] / Lisa Buscani (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Militants"] / Lisa Buscani (4 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Hose poem"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Sirens at the Mill"] / Lisa Buscani (4 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Anatomy of grief"] / Lisa Buscani (1 min. 42 sec.) -- ["Electrical workers Union Hall 1987"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Whole lotta"] / Lisa Buscani (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["The barber"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 37 sec.) -- ["The confession"] / Lisa Buscani (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Box"] / Lisa Buscani (2 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Zeal"] / Lisa Buscani (4 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Mother God Damn"] / Lisa Buscani (3 min. 58 sec.)
Lisa Buscani started writing poetry because of an insatiable desire for attention, and because she finally had something worthwhile to say. While completing her journalism degree at Bowling Green State University, she received theater and competitive oral interpretation scholarships. She has also won numerous nationally recognized public speaking awards. She started reading at the Green Mill Lounge and is currently Poetry Slam Champion.
Patricia Smith has worked for the Chicago Sun-Times for 11 years, where's she's currently a lifestyle and entertainment reporter. Her first poem, written in a state of delirious, pre-pubescent lust at the tender age of 7 years, actually contains the words "June" andn "Moon." She's now working on a series of poems inspired by sleazy tabloid headlines--the inaugural poem in the series is entitled "Boy Sneezes, Head Explodes." Patricia's a regular reader at the Green Mill where she reached the finals in the summer Poetry Slam Championship. She's also read at Lower Links, Columbia College and Daley Center, and has published in Kaleidoscope an anthology of writing by minority women.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Bill Barnes, performer ; A Thousand Excuses, performers
Recorded live 1988.10.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Act I] (21 min. 27 sec.) -- [Act I, continued] (24 min. 28 sec.) -- [Act II] (10 min. 37 sec.) -- [Act II, continued] (24 min. 46 sec.) -- [Act II, continued] (10 min. 1 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 32 sec.)
Called "One of the most subversive to ever embrace commercialism," Bill Barnes' musical background includes the diversity that spans studies with John Cage and Herbert Brun to playing funk horns live with Maceo Parker. Bill Barnes is a poet in pursuit of the unnerving side of crypto-prosaic street talk. Using his trombone as a weapon, his improvisation rubs salt in the self-inflicted wounds of a perjured instrument. As a composer, he constructs a palindrome of disorder, proving that dyslexia is the philosopher's stone.
Returning to hometown Chicago, Bill Barnes brings along his traveling ensemble A Thousand Excuses. Just as hisi first gainful employment was with Ringling Bros., Bill Barnes' task on Oct.7 will be to provide a three-ring arena that dazzles with seething indictments of the status quo. An evening not to be missed or forgotten.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Kerry Leung, performer
Recorded live 1988.10.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: Introduction (0 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Mountains ring"] (4 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Autumn moon over pond face"] (3 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 58 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Cantonese music"] (5 min. 32 sec.)
Each year since 1985, the Links Hall Performance Series has sought out local practitioners of traditional folk music from other lands. Chicago, being rich with such ethnic mixtures, has yielded some of the finest musicians anywhere and has made for a poignant series of traditional folk music. This retrospective is a highlight of past series that featured music from Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and China.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Toma Cora, performer ; Hans Reichel, performer
Recorded live 1988.10.22, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (12 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 43 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (18 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (32 min. 9 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 6 sec.)
Sal Salasin, speaker [Note: Art Lange's performance is cataloged as LH38(a)]
Recorded live 1988.10.27, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (3 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (0 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (0 min. 44 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (3 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (0 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 55 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (2 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] Sal Salasin (1 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Sal Salasin (3 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Dearly deported"] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 0 sec.) -- ["The nation is full of slime"] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["The ghost of Count Basie"] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 27 sec.) -- [Outro] / Sal Salasin (1 min. 1 sec.)
Stepping Out of the Plane Under the Protection of the Army is the soon to be released book by New Yorker Sal Salasin on Another Chicago Press (Chicago, IL 1988).
Locally, Salasin has been published in B-City, Another Chicago Magazine, Oink!, The Chicago Review and New American Writing. He also has been published in over 30 other reviews and publications. Salasin created and ran the ABC No Rio Poetry Reading Series from 1984-1986 in New York as well as a poetry of the Tokyo English Literature Society in Tokyo Japan. He currently organizes a reading series at the Ear Inn in New York City. In 1986, he was nominated for the GE Foundation Award.
Art Lange has released several books including Needles at Midnight (Z Press), Evidence (Yellow Press) and Monk Poems (Frontward Press). He has been published in The Partisan Review, New American Writing, Link, B-City, and Washington Review.
Lange is the ex-editor of Downbeat Magazine as well as a widely published music critic. He also was the publisher of Brilliant Corners from 1975-1978 and in 1980 received a grant from the NEA
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Art Lange, speaker [Note: Sal Salasin's performance is cataloged as LH37(c)]
Recorded live 1988.10.27, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Art Lange (0 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Rage/banter/literature"] / Art Lange (4 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Two poems for Ted Berry"] / Art Lange (2 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Art Lange (2 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Art Lange (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Art Lange (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["A fine line"] / Art Lange (4 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Duo"] / Art Lange (1 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Needles at midnight"] / Art Lange (2 min. 8 sec.) -- ["China light"] / Art Lange (2 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Iron"] / Art Lange (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["The scream"] / Art Lange (5 min. 12 sec.) -- ["In error"] / Art Lange (2 min. 9 sec.) -- [Outro] / Art Lange (0 min. 51 sec.)
Stepping Out of the Plane Under the Protection of the Army is the soon to be released book by New Yorker Sal Salasin on Another Chicago Press (Chicago, IL 1988).
Locally, Salasin has been published in B-City, Another Chicago Magazine, Oink!, The Chicago Review and New American Writing. He also has been published in over 30 other reviews and publications. Salasin created and ran the ABC No Rio Poetry Reading Series from 1984-1986 in New York as well as a poetry of the Tokyo English Literature Society in Tokyo Japan. He currently organizes a reading series at the Ear Inn in New York City. In 1986, he was nominated for the GE Foundation Award.
Art Lange has released several books including Needles at Midnight (Z Press), Evidence (Yellow Press) and Monk Poems (Frontward Press). He has been published in The Partisan Review, New American Writing, Link, B-City, and Washington Review.
Lange is the ex-editor of Downbeat Magazine as well as a widely published music critic. He also was the publisher of Brilliant Corners from 1975-1978 and in 1980 received a grant from the NEA
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Cambodian Folk Music Ensemble, performers
Recorded live 1988.10.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 33 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 41 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 49 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 28 sec.)
Each year since 1985, the Links Hall Performance Series has sought out local practitioners of traditional folk music from other lands. Chicago, being rich with such ethnic mixtures, has yielded some of the finest musicians anywhere and has made for a poignant series of traditional folk music. This retrospective is a highlight of past series that featured music from Southeast Asia, The Caribbean, The Middle East and China. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Chicago Samba Ensemble, performers
Recorded live 1988.10.29, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Felicidad"] (2 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Byanna"] (11 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Capoeira"] (11 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Traditional Samba"] (17 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 3 sec.) -- [Outro] (10 min. 24 sec.)
Each year since 1985, the Links Hall Performance Series has sought out local practitioners of traditional folk music from other lands. Chicago, being rich with such ethnic mixtures, has yielded some of the finest musicians anywhere and has made for a poignant series of traditional folk music. This retrospective is a highlight of past series that featured music from Southeast Asia, The Caribbean, The Middle East and China. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Paul Hoover, speaker ; James McManus, speaker
Recorded live 1988.11.03, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / James McManus (0 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Ghost Waves (excerpt)"] / James McManus (29 min. 31 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Paul Hoover (1 min. 5 sec.) -- ["Saigon, Illinois (excerpts" including: "A Hospital Story" and "Crazed Hippies at Home"] / Paul Hoover (30 min. 23 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 27 sec.)
Paul Hoover's first novel Saigon, Illinois, was recently published by Vintage Contemporaries. A chapter of the book, which deals with a conscientious objector working in a Chicago hospital during the Vietnam War, was first published in The New Yorker. Idea, Hoover's fourth book of poetry, won the 1987 Carl Sandburg Award. He teaches poetry writing at Columbia College in Chicago and has read his work widely, including such places as The Poetry Project, St Mark's Church in the Bowery, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, New Langton Street Gallery in San Francisco, and the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. With Maxine Chernoff, he edits New American Writing, a leading Literary Magazine.
James McManus is the author of the story collection ,Antonio Salazar is Dead and Curtains, and the novels Out of the Blue, Chin Music, and Ghost Waves. The Wall Street Journal called Out of the Blue "marvelously literate. It is about the kidnapping of a young girl, but that is like calling Hemingway's A Clean Well Lighted Place the story of an aging bisboy." Chin Music has recently been translated into French as Fugue. The Baltimore Sun called the novel "riveting and viceral. Mr. McManus is brilliant in his use of language as metaphor." The Los Angeles Times Book Review called him "the most exuberant, indecipherable, imaginative, poetic, (undisciplined?) writer since Joyce." Review of Contemporary Fiction: "Chin Music has done for Chicago what Apocalypse Now did for Viet Nam. A magnificent elegy for the Magnificent Mile in its death Throes." Fort Worth Star; "Crossbreed's rock-and-roll's gut immediacy with the cool articulation of a Bach Fugue....The closest prose comes to burning your blood like cold powdered glass." Newsday: "McManus has written a poet's novel. In the actions of its protagonists we witness the power of human courage and love in the most desperate and depressing of circumstancesl." McManus has received prizes and fellowships from the NEA (for both fiction and poetry), the Shifting Foundation, Chicago Artists Abroad, and the Illinois Arts Council. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Shawn Decker, performer ; Jim Gaileretto, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.04, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Sri Lanka"] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (5 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (13 min. 42 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (8 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (8 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (11 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Edge"] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (8 min. 15 sec.) -- [Soprano saxophone solo] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (5 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (16 min. 43 sec.) -- [Outro] / Shawn Decker with Jim Gaileretto (1 min. 0 sec.)
Shawn Decker composes and produces music for both liver performance and for electronic tape, as well as for film and video soundtracks. His work has been performed in a variety of settings ranging from small galleries to large convention centers, and has been heard on National Public Radio, the European Broadcast System, and the Learning Channel. Recent commissions include a sound installation for the lobby of the One Financial Place building in Chicago, and a score for the music/light show "Wet Grass" for the Cernan Space Center. Recent soundtrack credits include sound design for the Tom Finerty film Trust Me, and a soundtrack for the Museum of Science and Industry's video on Superconductivity. Mr. Decker also composes and performs with the acclaimed new music ensemble Kapture. In addition to writing and producing music, Mr. Decker teaches in the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an instructor in computer music at Northwestern University. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Chicago Beau, performer ; George Freeman, guitar ; Ajaramu, percussion ; Cecille Savage, bass
Recorded live 1988.11.05, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (10 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Stormy monday"] (7 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 26 sec.) -- ["Hoochie coochie man"] (7 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 42 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 10 sec.)
Chicago Beau has recorded with the likes of Archie Shepp, Philly Joe Jones, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cal Massey, Julio Finn and Memphis Slim to name a few. He is currently the co-publisher and founding editor of Literati Chicago, a quarterly literary review; and co-publisher/editor of The Chicago Blues Players Biographical and Club Directory. Aside from music and literature, Chicago Beau has been involved with theater, film, radio, and television. In the past two years he has performed in Los Angeles, Paris, Dakar, Nairobi, London and Chicago as bluesman/poet/lecturer. The band for the evening will consist of:
George Freeman-guitar. George has played with the late Charlie Parker, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, the late Gene Ammons, his brother Von Freeman and countless others.
Ajaramu-Drums. A.A.C.M. member is a drummer for all music. From his early days playing with the late Sonny Boy Williamson to his avant garde work, Ajaramu's career has been one of root expression and excitment.
Cecille Savage-bass. Savage is one of the hardest working musicians in Chicago. She is in constant demand by all elements of the music community. She is also a vocalist and a poet. Among her recordings is an album with Sugar Blue.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Sandra Binion, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.09, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction/Italian] (14 min. 14 sec.) -- [Opera] (3 min. 35 sec.) -- [Cello] (4 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Second letter"] (2 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 0 sec) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 32 sec.) -- [End] (1 min. 13 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 57 sec.)
Kahil El Zabar, performer ; Kahil El Zabar Percussion Quartet, performers
Recorded live 1988.11.11, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 41 sec.) -- [Introduction, continued] (8 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (17 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Where there's a will there's a way"] (4 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 59 sec.) -- [Untitled] (19 min. 46 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (26 min. 3 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 14 sec.)
Among the many different projects that Kahil El Zabar has launched, includingn The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, The Beat, The Kahil El Zabar Quartet and The Orchestra Infinity to name a few, The Percussion Quartet is one of the most inspired. Kahil has toured and recorded with some of the giants of contemporary music today, i.e. David Murray, Cannonball Adderly, Stevie Wonder, Dizzy Gillespie, etc... He is considered to be one of the finest percussionists of his generation and a thought-provoking composer as well as a vocalist, dramatist, dancer and poet. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Art "Turk" Burton, conga drums ; Carlos [?], performer ; Sam Torres, performer ; Brandon Hill, performer ; Jim Harrison, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.12, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Abagwa (?)] (8 min. 9 sec.) -- [Sam Torres solo] (3 min. 36 sec.) -- [Carlos solo] (3 min. 16 sec.) -- [Brandon Hill solo] (3 min. 25 sec.) -- [Jim Harrison solo] (4 min. 36 sec.) -- [Art "Turk" Burton solo] (5 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Samba"] (8 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Puerto Rico"] (7 min. 34 sec.) -- [Pause] (1 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Rhumba from Cuba"] (6 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Rhumba"] (8 min. 36 sec.) -- ["Mambo"] (12 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Very old rhythm from Cuba"] (6 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Merengue from Dominican Republic"] (5 min. 20 sec.) -- ["Improvisation on Rhythm and Blues"] (10 min. 26 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 31 sec.)
Conjunto Bembe is a conga quintet directed by composer/bandleader Art "Turk" Burton. Turk was involved with the AACM for 13 years and performed with Muhal Richard Abram's Big Band and the Governors State University Big Band. He has led his own ensembles including "Black Fire" and "Congo Square." "Congo Square" was featured in the Windy Jazz Series that was broadcast from Ricks Cafe American to 30 cities nationwide. Turk is also an Honorary Member of the Camisa Verde y Branco Samba School. "Conjunto Bembe" has performed at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, The ETA Theater and the Du Sable Museum. The members are some of the most sought after African and Latin percussionists working in Chicago today. "Conjunto Bembe" has been together for 5 years and performs a mixture of Cuban, African and Caribbean rhythms as a take off point for improvisation. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Seth Green, performer ; Martha Green, performer ; Mary Zimmerman, performer ; Daniel Fish, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.17, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Mamie thinks all Canadian geese..."] (3 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Upside down"] (4 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Mrs. Beetle/Mr. Bison"] (7 min. 25 sec.) -- ["A piece about my youth"] (9 min. 29 sec.) -- ["I once was a famous astronomer"] (41 min. 4 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 34 sec.)
Seth and Martha Green have performed in Chicago for 12 years. They were founding members of the Kapture Performance Ensemble, and in 1983 left to form the Oxygen Jukebox. In the fall of '88 they will open a recording studio/performance gallery of the same name in Chicago. For this Links Hall Performance, Seth and Martha will be joined by Mary Zimmerman and Daniel Fish. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Davey Williams, performer ; LaDonna Smith, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.18, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (16 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (20 min. 2 sec.) -- [Guitar solo] (12 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 2 sec.) -- [Tuning/break] (4 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (25 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Country western"] (7 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (16 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 45 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 51 sec.)
Robert Metrick, performer ; Heidi Lang, performer ; Steve Jones, performer ; Alan Tollefson, performer
Recorded live 1988.11.19, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["A Walk"] (10 min. 57 sec.) -- ["Elements of performance art"] (4 min. 56 sec.) -- ["Enter father Steve Jones"] (7 min. 35 sec.) -- ["Poem by Alan Ginsberg: Consulting the i-ching"] (13 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Eyesight to the blind"] (3 min. 37 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 2 sec.)
A gala all-star performance art tribute to the American Theater by Robert Metrick, Heidi Lang, Steve Jones, Alan Tollefson.
Sea Monkey Vengeance is a collective of Chicago-based performance-artists whose individual and collaborative works are frequently presented in alternative spaces, galleries and clubs around and below the greater Chicago metropolitan area. Although SMV's "membership" may fluctuate between 0-23, depending upon the performance, its principal activists/artists include Robert Metrick, Heidi Lang, Steve Jones and Alan Tollefson.
Sea Monkey Vengeance's Tribute to the American Theater is a triple edged assault/wake/homage to the American Theater Tradition. This all-star revue will salute the fiscally/critically successful milestones of comedy, tragedy, dramas and musicals. Excerpts from Annie to Equis, from Cats to Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf?. from Hair to The Hairy Ape, and more will be explored in an eclectic series of intensely personal, abstracted interpretations. SMV's tribute proposes the definitive statement in the interminable debate over Theater vs. Performance Art, taking the issue straight-on and strangling it, or setting the clock back 50 years.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Daniel Scanlan, violin ; Katherine Hughes, violin ; Erik Neumann, cello ; Kent Kessler, contrabass, slide guitar
Recorded live 1988.12.02, Moming Dance and Art Center, 1034 W. Barry Ave., Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (7 min. 50 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 17 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 13 sec.)
The Phantom Ranch String Quartet explores the textural andn sonic possibilities of the string family through structured improvisations. The group was founded in 1985 by Kent Kessler and has performed extensively in the Chicago area and around the Midwest. The String Quartet consists of Daniel Scanlan-violin; Katherine Hughes-violin, Erik Neumann-Cello; Kent Kessler-contra bass. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Phil Cohran, trumpet ; Circle of Sound, performers
Recorded live 1988.12.03, Moming Dance and Art Center, 1034 W. Barry, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Wade in the water"] (16 min. 43 sec.) -- ["Black music workshop"] (9 min. 20 sec.) -- ["A cappella piece/Cigarette smokin'"] (10 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Ottoman image"] 1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["You really got a hold on me"] (4 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Ask me why"] (2 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Stand by me"] (5 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Tribute to Duke Elllington"] (4 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Story"] (3 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Frankincense and myrrh"] (9 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Under the boardwalk"] (5 min. 2 sec.) -- ["(You ain't nothin' but a) Hound Dog"] (2 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Story"] (2 min. 14 sec.) -- ["Parker's mood"] (9 min. 51 sec.) -- ["African thumb piano mayhem"] (15 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Thanks"] (1 min. 1 sec.) -- [Encore] (10 min. 22 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 13 sec.)
Phil Cohran, "An avant-gardist who has deep roots in the jazz tradition" (Chicago Tribune). "A longtime Chicago musical presence, ex-Sun Ra sideman and AACM founding father, this trumpeter bandleader is a force for good in his community (Downbeat). [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Don Meckley, shortwave radio, performer
Recorded live 1988.12.02, Moming Dance and Art Center, 1034 W. Barry Ave., Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (35 min. 57 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 45 sec.)
Arguably one of the "Best damned Shortwave Radio players in the United States" (Daniel Scanlan), Don Meckley creates unsurpassed sonic landscapes through the use of multiple shortwave radios, water-dripping inventions (called hydro-kalimbas) and other low-tech devices. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1988]
Otis "Smokey" Smothers, guitar, vocal
Recorded live 1988.05.27, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 21 sec.) -- [Unttiled] (4 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Baby please don't go"] (4 min. 44 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 12 sec.) -- [Outro] (4 min. 25 sec.)
Otis "Smokey" Smothers was born in 1929 in Lexington, Mississippi, where he learned guitar from his aunt before migrating to Chicago at the age of seventeen. He became active in the city's burgeoning blues scene and over the next two decades he worked with such luminaries as Henry Strong, Arthur "Big Boy" Spires, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters and Freddie King. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, guitar, vocals
Recorded live 1988.05.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 37 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 6 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 39 sec.) -- [Untitled] (3 min. 57 sec.)
David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born in the heart of the delta in 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi and learned his first guitar licks from his father Henry Edwards, who played guitar and violin at the country dances and juke joints. At the age of fourteen, he hit the road with Big Joe Williams. During the mid-1930's he worked both as a solo player and with Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson and others. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Katherine Hughes, violin ; Gene Coleman, performer
Recorded live 1988.06.03, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Untitled] (18 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] (14 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 7 sec.)
Katherinen Hughes (violinst) has brought a strong orientation in classical music to a wide variety of improvising ensembles--from rock and jazz bands to new music groups such as Musica Menta. She has also written music for films and has produced two rock videos.
Gene Coleman is a composer, visual artist and musician. He is the founder of Plethora, an interdisciplinary ensemble, and Rx, a concert space for contemporary music.
Their work employs improvisation in the context of compositional structure. Highlighting the evening will be a concerto for violin, bass clarinet andn chamber ensemble.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1988]
Indrani Mukherjee, vocals ; Paul Raman, tabla ; Siddhartha, table ; Ustad Nafiz Khan, sitar
Recorded live 1990.04.07, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 58 sec.) -- ["The program"] (2 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 53 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 31 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 25 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] (11 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (6 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] (1 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 41 sec.)
Traditional and modern music of Bengal will be featured in a special performance celebrating the Bengali new year.
Indrani Mukherjee, vocalist, will be featured in this performance. The program will include pieces by 20th century Bengali composers Ravindra-Nath Tagore and Nazrul Islam, as well as Ghazal, devotional music in Urdu
Indian musical forms stem from vocal traditions based on ethnic epic poetry such as the Bhagavad Gita. Ms. Mukherjee will be accompanied by Paul Raman and Siddhartha on tabla. Ustad Nafiz Khan will join the group on sitar.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1990]
Fujima Shunojo, performer
Recorded live 1990.04.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 8 sec.) -- ["Act I"] (29 min. 22 sec.) -- [Intermission] (3 min. 15 sec.) -- [Intermission, continued] (10 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Act II"] (32 min. 20 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 42 sec.)
Fujima Shunojo, a master of the "Fujima" school of dance, will appear at Links Hall with a performance that will provide an unprecedented oppurtunity to view this centuries-old art form in an intimate setting.
Fujima's classical dance employs exquisite costuming. His work moves with the grace of Haiku. The apparently simple form is highly disciplined and resonates with many layers of complexity and meaning. In this highly symbolic art, every gesture, each expressive detail, has signifigance.
Fujima is a highly respected teacher of this classical dance form, and its foremost practitioneer in the midwest. Traditionally he has performed only in large formal settings. His appearance at Links Hall is a rare oppurtunity to experience Fujima's artistry in a direct and personal context.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Spring 1990]
Jim Baker, performer ; Kent Kessler, performer ; Steve Hunt, performer
Recorded live 1989.10.13, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 40 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (13 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] (15 min. 23 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 19 sec.) -- [Set break] (1 min. 29 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 54 sec.) -- [Untitled] (34 min. 33 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 14 sec.)
An important part of an earlier, more experimental, jazz oriented version of the Nicholas Tremulus band. Baker's thorough analytic grounding provides bedrock sense for every unexpected solo and stimulating section turn. Joined by the energetic, versatile talents of two top acoustic players, when they slide into the occasional slot, they don't just cook, they bake.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Thomas Resch, vocals, saxophone ; Wolfgang Dorninger, saxophone, electronics ; Peter Andronsch, guitar
Recorded live 1989.10.14, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 59 sec.) -- ["The ritual, tough guys"] (21 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Ennio"] (5 min. 36 sec.) -- ["They did it somehow, but they did it all right"] (5 min. 10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0 min. 44 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 8 sec.)
Thomas Resch, vocals, saxophone; and Wolfgang Dorninger, saxophone, electronics; are two thirds, with guitarist Peter Andronsch, of this avant music trio on a rare U.S. tour. Winners of Ars Electronica 1988, they translate world music influences and experimental sounds in a very European and purely personal approach to new musical frontiers.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Michael Smith, performer
Recorded live 1989.10.20, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 55 sec.) -- ["A Chalk Talk"] (38 min. 49 sec.) -- [Intermission] (0 min. 44 sec.)
Ray McNiece, performer
Recorded live 1989.10.20, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Distant voices from a shelter"] (77 min. 34 sec.) -- [Outro] (3 min. 14 sec.)
Based on the life experiences of those he meets as counselor for Boston's homeless, McNiece weaves character and contex into a telling commentary on society's tunnel vision, ignorance and fear of acknowledgement. A portion of tonight's receipts will be donated to the not-for-profit Lakefront SRO. Link's begins the evening with a Chalk Talk and more comedy bits by homeski gone NY NY Cinemax host/producer, comedian/performance artist Michael Smith.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989] [Note: Refer to LH46(a) for Michael Smith's performance]
Michael Smith, performer
Recorded live 1989.10.21, Links Hall, 4753 N. Broadway, Suite 918, Chicago, IL 60640
Contents: [Introduction] (3 min. 20 sec.) -- ["A Chalk Talk"] (22 min. 31 sec.) -- ["More chalk talk"] (13 min. 19 sec.) -- [Outro] (o min. 20 sec.)
Ray McNiece, performer
Recorded live 1989.10.21, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (0 min. 46 sec.) -- ["Distant voices from a shelter"] (29 min. 4 sec.) -- ["Distant voices from a shelter" continued] (46 min. 27 sec.) -- [Outro] (2 min. 0 sec.)
Based on the life experiences of those he meets as counselor for Boston's homeless, McNiece weaves character and contex into a telling commentary on society's tunnel vision, ignorance and fear of acknowledgement. A portion of tonight's receipts will be donated to the not-for-profit Lakefront SRO. Link's begins the evening with a Chalk Talk and more comedy bits by homeski gone NY NY Cinemax host/producer, comedian/performance artist Michael Smith.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989] [Note: Refer to LH46(c) for Michael Smith's performance]
Equinox Guatemalan Theater, performers
Recorded live 1989.10.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Model villages"] (12 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] (10 min. 42 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] (4 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] (8 min. 38 sec.) -- [Untitled] (9 min. 8 sec.) -- [Untitled] (7 min. 28 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 56 sec.)
Link's Hall observes the Day of the Dead, celebrated in Latino cultures as El Dia de Los Muertes with work by the Equinox Guatemalan Theater and Chicago Latino Poets.
Equinox Guatemalan Theater: Friday's Performance: "Model Villages" --A Present Reality in Guatemala explores the current counterinsurgency movement in Guatemala as a sophisticated form of genocide.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Gregario Gomez, speaker ; Jose Chavez, speaker ; Luis Rodriguez, speaker
Recorded live 1989.10.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] / Gregario Gomez (2 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gregario Gomez (1 min. 44 sec.) -- [Unitled] / Gregario Gomez (2 min. 31 sec.) -- ["A portrait painted"] / Gregario Gomez (1 min. 13 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gregario Gomez (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gregario Gomez (3 min. 36 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gregario Gomez (1 min. 35 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gregario Gomez (1 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Luis Rodriguez (1 min. 14 sec.) -- ["The best of us"] / Luis Rodriguez (2 min. 28 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (4 min. 14 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (2 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (2 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Piece by piece"] / Luis Rodriguez (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jose Chavez (2 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (2 min. 12 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (1 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (1 min. 9 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Luis Rodriguez (1 min. 20 sec.) -- ["A certain paternity"] / Luis Rodriguez (1 min. 36 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 5 sec.)
Equinox Guatemalan Theater, performers
Recorded live 1989.10.28, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
[Introduction] (0 min. 45 sec.) -- ["A shout echoes the world"] (25 min. 34 sec.) -- [Untitled] (29 min. 19 sec.) -- [Outro] (10 min. 4 sec.)
Equinox Guatemalan Theater has been performing in Chicago since 1985. It takes its name from a symbol of human equality and justice--the Equinox, occurring twice each year when day and night are equal. Saturday's performance: "A Shout Echoes the World, by Monica Ferraro. Sketches real-life stories of the Guatemalan "disappeared"--some dead, some still alive. [Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Sandra Binion, performer ; Naomi Millender, cello ; Ari Brown, saxophone ; Fareed Haque, guitar
Recorded live 1989.11.03, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 59 sec.) -- ["Opera Barcelona"] (21 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Opera Barcelona" continued] (23 min. 29 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 59 sec.)
A Barcelona rooftop is brought to life in this tableau vivant by Sandra Binion. With Naomi Millender, cello, Ari Brown, saxophone, and special guest Fareed Haque, classical guitar. Sandra Binion's performance theatre evokes multiple levels of emotional, sensory, and mythis imagery. Premier.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Andre Codrescu, performer
Recorded live 1989.11.04, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: ["Death of Stalin"] (40 min. 4 sec.) -- [Untitled] (12 min. 23 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 13 sec.)
Writer, poet, National Public Radio correspondent, and a professor of English at Louisiana State University. His early works glisten with the light of surrealist poets and Rumanian folklore. His most recent books include Raised by Puppets Only to be Killed by Research (Addison-Wesley, 1989), a collection of his essays for NPR; and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (City Lights Books, 1989), selections of the best of The Exquisite Corpse, a literary magazine founded by Mr. Codrescu.[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Laurie Lee Moses, performer ; Kathleen Maltese, performer ; Donna Mandel, performer ; Lukie Marriott, performer
Recorded live 1989.11.10, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["The Clear Bead at the Center"] (27 min. 8 sec.) -- [Intermission] (2 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Part two"] (18 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Part three, conclusion"] (5 min. 13 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 5 sec.)
The Clear Bead at the Center
Four women, multi-instrumentalist Laurie Lee Moses and improvisational dancers Kathleen Maltese, Donna Mandel and Lukie Marriott, individually celebrated for their experimental works, collaborate with original improvised works for movement and music.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Laurie Lee Moses, performer ; Kathleen Maltese, performer ; Donna Mandel, performer ; Lukie Marriott, performer
Recorded live 1989.11.11, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (2 min. 11 sec.) -- ["The Clear Bead at the Center"] (24 min. 12 sec.) -- [Intermission] (2 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Part two"] (21 min. 9 sec.) -- [Outro] (1 min. 5 sec.)
The Clear Bead at the Center
Four women, multi-instrumentalist Laurie Lee Moses and improvisational dancers Kathleen Maltese, Donna Mandel and Lukie Marriott, individually celebrated for their experimental works, collaborate with original improvised works for movement and music.
[Links Hall "Performance Series" Program Schedule, Fall 1989]
Paul Hoover, speaker ; Kerry Leung, performer ; Luis Rodriques, speaker ; Cindy Salach, speaker ; Lydia Tomkiw, speaker ; Iris Moore, performer ; Lou Mallozzi, performer ; Michael Warr, speaker ; Kevin Henry, performer ; Equinox Guatamalan Theatre Company, performers ; Robert Metrick, performer ; Jim Baker, perfomer ; Art Lange, speaker ; Patricia Smith, speaker ; Marc Smith, speaker
Recorded live 1990.03.31, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents:
[Disc 1, Dat 1] [Introduction] (2 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Paul Hoover reads Ted Berrigan"] / Paul Hoover (5 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Ted Berrigan" continued] / Paul Hoover (1 min. 21 sec.) -- ["Ted Berrigan" continued] / Paul Hoover (2 min. 24 sec.) -- ["People who died"] / Paul Hoover (2 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Ten things I do everyday"] / Paul Hoover (1 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Sonnets"] / Paul Hoover (5 min. 17 sec.) -- ["About Ted Berrigan"] / Paul Hoover (5 min. 26 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Kerry Leung (3 min. 27 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (1 min. 49 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (4 min. 57 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (1 min. 21 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (4 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (6 min. 2 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kerry Leung (5 min. 30 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Luis Rodriques (2 min. 34 sec.) -- ["The blast furnace"] / Luis Rodriques (2 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Harocho blues"] / Luis Rodriques (2 min. 57 sec.) -- ["Chuta"] / Luis Rodriques (1 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Lips"] / Luis Rodriques (2 min. 4 sec.) -- ["The village"] / Luis Rodriques (1 min. 37 sec.) -- ["The concrete river"] / Luis Rodriques (5 min. 33 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Cindy Salach (0 min. 22 sec.) -- ["If I stood right here"] / Cindy Salach (3 min. 2 sec.) -- ["Instead of Europe"] / Cindy Salach (3 min. 27 sec.) -- ["Beautiful women"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 48 sec.) -- ["The night I married my television set"] / Cindy Salach (2 min. 3 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Lydia Tomkiw (1 min. 12 sec.) -- ["Sonics"] / Lydia Tomkiw (1 min. 31 sec.) -- ["Party game question"] / Lydia Tomkiw (2 min. 56 sec.)
[CD 2, DAT 2] ["Holiday"] / Lydia Tomkiw (4 min. 20 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Iris Moore (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Iris Moore (8 min. 23 sec.) -- [Inroduction] / Lou Mallozzi (1 min. 19 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Lou Mallozzi (11 min. 24 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Erwin Helfer (2 min. 0 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Erwin Helfer (2 min. 20 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Erwin Helfer (6 min. 29 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Michael Warr (1 min. 24 sec.) -- ["Not black enough"] / Michael Warr (2 min. 7 sec.) -- ["What are you doing here"] / Michael Warr (5 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Michael Warr (3 min. 5 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Kevin Henry (3 min. 24 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Kevin Henry (1 min. 2 sec.)
[CD 3, DAT 3] [Introduction] / Equinox Guatamalan Theatre Co. (4 min. 17 sec.) -- ["A shout echoes the world/The escape"] / Equinox Guatamalan Theatre Co. (9 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Equinox Guatamalan Theatre Co. (1 min. 48 sec.) -- [Break] (4 min. 12 sec.) -- ["The donkey and the mule"] / Robert Metrick (2 min. 5 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jim Baker Trio (1 min. 15 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jim Baker Trio (12 min. 1 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Art Lange (3 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Maze (in four parts)"] / Art Lange (4 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Embizo"] / Art Lange (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["A white line"] / Art Lange (3 min. 49 sec.) -- ["Poem"] / Art Lange (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Patricia Smith (2 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Patricia Smith (5 min. 45 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Marc Smith (3 min. 54 sec.)
[CD 4] [Untitled] / Marc Smith (7 min. 40 sec.) -- ["Tattoo Taboo"] / Marc Smith (8 min. 9 sec.)
Gene Coleman, performer ; Joseph Medosch, performer ; Mathew Goulish, speaker ; Charlotte Pryce, director ; Hal Russell, performer ; Steve Hunt, performer ; Kent Kessler, performer ; Sterling Plumpp, speaker ; Kaja Overstreet/Douglas Crew, performers ; David Sedaris, performer ; Ross Lipman, director ; Michael Meyers, performer ; Italian American Theatre Co., performers ; Richard House, performer ; Jean Parisi, performer ; Hamid Drake, performer ; Michael Zerang, performer ; Brigid Murphy, performer
Recorded live 1989.03.31, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents:
[CD 1, DAT 1] [Introduction] / Gene Coleman (3 min. 18 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Gene Coleman (15 min. 28 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Joseph Medosch (5 min. 28 sec.) -- ["Formatic equation of existence"] / Joseph Medosch (8 min. 35 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Mathew Goulish (2 min. 4 sec.) -- ["A moment of silence..."] / Mathew Goulish (2 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Killer"] / Mathew Goulish (1 min. 29 sec.) -- ["I saw Ronald Reagan when I was a child"] / Mathew Goulish (0 min. 49 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Charlotte Pryce (4 min. 9 sec.) -- ["X/Y, two films"] / Charlotte Pryce (10 min. 15 sec.) --[Introduction] / Hal Russell with Steve Hunt and Kent Kessler (3 min. 11 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Hal Russell with Steve Hunt and Kent Kessler (13 min. 45 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Hal Russell with Steve Hunt and Kent Kessler (5 min. 8 sec.)
[CD 2, DAT 2] [Outro] / Hal Russell with Steve Hunt and Kent Kessler (1 min. 29 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Sterling Plumpp (5 min. 17 sec.) -- ["Chicago Blues Festival 1989"] / Sterling Plumpp (8 min. 30 sec.) -- ["Medicine man (for Willie Dixon)"] / Sterling Plumpp (5 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Kaja Overstreet (3 min. 11 sec.) -- ["Nurture and nature"] / Kaja Overstreet (8 min. 8 sec.) -- [Introduction] / David Sedaris (2 min. 32 sec.) -- [Untitled] / David Sedaris (15 min. 29 sec.) -- [Introduction to film] / Ross Lipman (3 min. 34 sec.) -- ["10-17-88"] / Ross Lipman (11 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Michael Meyers (1 min. 23 sec.) -- ["This guy named Ray"] / Michael Meyers (2 min. 17 sec.) -- ["In times to come"] / Michael Meyers (4 min. 7 sec.) -- ["A revisionist history"] / Michael Meyers (2 min. 1 sec.) -- ["A crazy woman"] / Michael Meyers (2 min. 53 sec.) -- ["His first movie shot in America"] / Michael Meyers (4 min. 7 sec.)
[CD 3, DAT 3] [Introduction] / Italian American Theatre Co. (1 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Commedia dell'arte"] / Italian American Theatre Co. (8 min. 32 sec.) -- [Outro, Italian American Theatre Co./Introduction, Richard House] (10 min. 28 se .) -- [Introduction] / Jean Parisi (8 min. 22 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Jean Parisi (10 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Frank Melcoury and Lionel Bottari (1 min. 7 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Frank Melcoury and Lionel Bottari (9 min. 15 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang (3 min. 15 sec.) -- ["Mesopotamiam frame drums"] / Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang (18 min. 12 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Brigid Murphy (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Milly Mae Smith"] / Brigid Murphy (1 min. 16 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Brigid Murphy (7 min. 6 sec.)
Brigid Murphy, performer ; Tom Palazzola, director ; Matthew Owens, performer ; Jacqui Disler, speaker ; Douglas Ewart, performer ; Kahil El Zabar, performer ; Curious Theatre Branch, performers ; Paula Killen, performer ; Carlos Cumpian, speaker ; Heather McAdams, director
Recorded live 1990.03.31, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents:
[CD 1, DAT 1] [Untitled] / Brigid Murphy (1 min. 32 sec.) -- ["I'm a sucker for a trucker" / Brigid Murphy (3 min. 6 sec.) -- [Encore] / Brigid Murphy (5 min. 39 sec.) -- [Introduction to film] / Tom Palazzola (1 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Love it or leave it"] / Tom Palazzola (14 min. 9 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Mathew Owens (2 min. 1 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Mathew Owens (7 min. 54 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Jacqui Disler (4 min. 37 sec.) -- ["Optional release"] / Jacqui Disler (2 min. 39 sec.) -- ["Breaking it down"] / Jacqui Disler (2 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Shifting sand, and others?"] / Jacqui Disler (6 min. 1 sec.) -- ["Stay of Execution"] / Jacqui Disler (1 min. 0 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Douglas Ewart (3 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Douglas Ewart (0 min. 42 sec.) -- ["Sax solo"] / Douglas Ewart (5 min. 0 sec.) -- ["Didjeridoo solo"] / Douglas Ewart (4 min. 39 sec.) -- [Break] (0 min. 35 sec.)
[CD 2, DAT 2] [Introduction] / Kahil El Zabar (6 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Song"] / Kahil El Zabar (3 min. 34 sec.) -- ["Drum"] / Kahil El Zabar (4 min. 10 sec.) -- ["Story"] / Kahil El Zabar (2 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Thumb piano"] / Kahil El Zabar (5 min. 50 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Curious Theatre Branch (5 min. 32 sec.) -- ["Chet Baker"] / Curious Theatre Branch (14 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Thelonious Monk"] / Curious Theatre Branch (5 min. 27 sec.) -- ["William Burroughs"] / Curious Theatre Branch (4 min. 44 sec.) -- [Introduction] / Paula Killen (1 min. 3 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Paula Killen (16 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Nothing"] / Paula Killen (0 min. 12 sec.)
[CD 3, DAT 3] [Introduction] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 16 sec.) -- ["A love poem"] / Carlos Cumpian (1 min. 7 sec.) -- ["Communion wayfarers"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 29 sec.) -- ["Barflies have feelings too"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 35 sec.) -- ["In less than an hour"] / Carlos Cumpian (2 min. 30 sec.) -- [Untitled] / Carlos Cumpian (3 min. 15 sec.) -- [Break] (5 min. 38 sec.) -- [Introduction to three films] / Heather McAdams (2 min. 30 sec.) -- ["First film"] / Heather McAdams (8 min. 25 sec.) -- ["Second film"] / Heather McAdams (6 min. 19 sec.) -- ["Third film"] / Heather McAdams (13 min. 16 sec.) -- [Outro] (7 min. 34 sec.)
Conjunto Areyto, performers
Recorded live 1990.03.31, Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657
Contents: [Introduction] (1 min. 22 sec.) -- ["Grinding coffee"] (9 min. 18 sec.) -- ["Brazil"] (9 min. 9 sec.) -- ["Panama"] (6 min. 23 sec.) -- ["Merengue/Santo Domingo"] (8 min. 33 sec.) -- ["Bomba/Puerto Rico"] (10 min. 36 sec.) -- [Break] (7 min. 26 sec.) -- [Untitled] (5 min. 3 sec.) -- ["Santo Domingo merengue"] (7 min. 47 sec.) -- ["Guantanamera/Cuba"] (7 min. 54 sec.) -- ["Polka from Mexico"] (4 min. 38 sec.) -- ["Another polka from Mexico"] (4 min. 50 sec.) -- ["Salsa from Puerto Rico"] (8 min. 19 sec.) -- [Encore: "Santo Domingo Merengue"] (7 min. 6 sec.) -- [Outro] (0 min. 56 sec.)