I'm new to Chicago.
I'm looking to start a new musical project.
If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please PM me for details.

..not really sure if this is the appropriate context for this, but craigslist has yeilded nothing, and I figure if any musicians have similar aesthetics, there is a good chance they will be on here.

so go easy on the flaming and such...if you want to know details, what I am interested in doing, just drop me a line, thanks

-shevek

What are you looking to put together exactly?

well like i said pms are best.

but here is the sort of lineup i need:
if it doesn't sound too ambitious/nutty:

female lead singer/vioinist/violist
gtr/loops/etc (me)
keyboardist who can read, w/analog synth, organ, mebbe rhodes, etc
electronics/beats/samples person who can also handle sound
upright bassist/cellist etc...
percussionist/drummer
someone to handle lighting/projections etc.

and although I have demos that demonstrate gtr/songwriting capacity quite well i would rather start w/ an electronics person so i can integrate the more ambient/ textural side of my electric work, purely from improv, and work my way out.

there's more but it would be a bit indulgent to splatter it all ouyt on this baord, heh heh.

Jesus Christ.

Not that you're asking for much or anything.

i can play the spoons and will travel

no. not much.

the problem i'm seeing w/american bands right now is the formalism, the reliance on a set vocabulary, i.e.,

we're a gtr band,

we're an electro band,

we're a noise band...

which yields all this sameness, from song to song, set to set, album to album.

if you listen to a broad variety of music, your band should refelect it, and that requires a broad pallette of voices available...with the proper chemistry they can be synthesised well enough so it doesn't sound like mere genre hopping.

capiche?

Why the dis on illiterate keyboard players?

I kid.

no dis. i can read but barely.

the reading is necessary because i want to be able to do stuff like
brecht or marc blitzstein, cole porter, shit like that, which has a lot of nuance, hard to pick up by ear.

You should sign up for the chi-improv list, and lurk for a while. I think it's a Yahoo group now.

And, go to Myopic for a few Monday nights, and you'll eventually meet some people who might enjoy playing with you.

There are probably other good places to look, but I haven't lived in Chicago for ten years--

myopic the bookstore?