June 10 11 12 Empty Bottle Chicago
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Lucky Dragons
White Rainbow
Rene Hell
Mountains
James Plotkin
Zerang | Colligan | Baker Trio
Spiral Joy Band
CVLTS
11 Pelt
Oneohtrix Point Never
Bill Orcutt
Sickness
Outer Space
Sword Heaven
Dylan Ettinger
Leslie Keffer
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Morton Subotnick
The Rita
Pulse Emitter
Telecult Powers
Mike Shiflet
Sick Llama
Beau Wanzer
Tiger Hatchery
Film by
Experimental 1/2 Hour
Alice Cohen
Amy Ruhl
DJ sets
Beau Wanzer
John McEntire
Dave Quam
Visuals by
Loo Tapes
Theodore Darst
Aaron Zarzutzki
12 Sonic Celluloid
Sam Prekop
Lichens
David Daniell
Michael Zerang (Official Site | Acid Marshmallow Video) | Michael Colligan (Acid Marshmallow Video) | Jim Baker (Acid Marshmallow Video) Your standard "power trio" this is not. Zerang plays drums and percussion, Baker on keyboards and electronics, and Colligan plays... well, dry ice. For those of you who haven't seen Colligan's work with the Lightbox Orchestra or any of his improvisational groupings around Chicago, he creatively melts a block of dry ice, using hot peices of metal, boiling teakettles, and other impliments to torture the ice, which bursts into a chorus of groans and wails that be the envy of any professional funeral mourner. Like Joe Colley's use of water added to dry clay, Colligan's ice show is more than a fascinating phenomenon; it's a previously unimagined musical instrument that can be as expressive as any synthesizer, drum, or piece of scrap metal. As for Zerang and Baker, their decades of ree improvisation in every conceivable situation make them capable of adding gasoline to any fire. --Chris Sienko