This tune is based around a musical box given to me as a present by Gillian Lisee. The tune it plays is a portion of Stairway to Heaven. I play it very slowly and put effects on it and loop it so it is unrecognizable. So I play the musical box and the distorted violin. Darin Gray plays upright bass and Jason Roebke plays upright bass. Recorded live and improvised at the Hideout in Chicago, Illinois.
Jim Becker is a fixture in the Chicago music scene. He plays with the experimental post-rock band Califone.
Cymbalum
Recorded for a puppet show (along with “Puppet Tune“). Friend Kate Sheehy asked me to write a couple of tunes for her show. This was recorded in my living room. I play the guitar, mandolin, and piano at my friend Gillian’s place.
Jim Becker is a fixture in the Chicago music scene. He plays with the experimental post-rock band Califone.
Pluck Through Radar
This was written for my friend’s animated film Hadacol Christmas. His name is Brent Green who I have worked and played a whole lot of shows with. We play his films and perform live improvised music/noise. From what I remember, I play violin. Steve Dorocke plays violin, Liz Payne played viola and Andy Rader played Upright Bass. Recorded on 4-track cassette in my living room.
Jim Becker is a fixture in the Chicago music scene. He plays with the experimental post-rock band Califone.
Wall
Wall was taken from a little short 9-second movie clip I took on my canon elph camera. My friend Marco who is Califone’s Italian booking agent was playing vibraphone at a studio in Bologna. I took the audio from that and deranged it with 4-track cassette and pro-tools. So everything you are hearing is generated from a vibraphone. Marco Stangherlin -vibes. Mixed by me.
Jim Becker is a fixture in the Chicago music scene. He plays with the experimental post-rock band Califone.
Puppet Tune
I recorded and came up with this tune at Slothstudios (my living room). I play the guitars and mandolin.
Jim Becker is a fixture in the Chicago music scene. He plays with the experimental post-rock band Califone.
Spring
Todd Mattei is a visual artist and musician residing in Chicago. His visual work (video, video installation, photography) has been screened and exhibited at places like the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee; the Green Lantern, Nightingale, and Chicago Filmmakers in Chicago; ATA and Berkeley Film Archives in California; and Pittsburgh Filmmakers in Pittsburgh. Todd received his MFA (2005) from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and has since taught film and animation at the University of Illinois and DePaul University. With musical groups Joan of Arc, Male, and Sharks and Seals, and alone as Litesalive, Todd has contributed to almost twenty full length albums and toured the U.S., Japan, and Europe several times over.
Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism,
Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press,
2007), and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and
Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft
Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet,
founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton
Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
when she’s not traveling the globe lecturing on freedom of speech
issues. Recently, Moore mounted two single-person exhibitions of her
conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, and her
work has appeared on the radio program Snap Judgment and in the
Progressive, truthout.org, and the Boston Phoenix.
