Another New Calligraphy


boneandbell.com		Bone & Bell Bone & Bell is part bark, part bellow. Through the eyes and ears of the multi-talented visual artist and musician Heather Smith, listeners experience visions of forgotten forests, invisible adversaries, and the strange beauty of birth and decay. Elements of lo-fi, folk, sea shanties, and Phil Spector's girl groups combine to create a tension-filled otherworldly prayer: overwhelmingly beautiful yet pockmarked with dissonance and suspense.

holdmyhorses.com		Chris Bower Chris Bower’s fiction and poetry has appeared in GetUnderground, Annalemma, and The 2nd Hand. He has been awarded the Folger Adam J. Prize for Poetry and was the ficiton editor of the University of IL Montage Poetry and Fiction literary arts magazine. He founded and hosts the Ray's Tap Reading Series in Logan Square and hosts Chinaski's weekly literary open mic in Bucktown. He has produced at least one play a year since 2003.

myspace.com/caboladies		Chris Bush Chris Bush is an experimental musician living in Chicago who is best known as a member of the experimental electronic outfit Caboladies, but also for his work under the aliases Flower Man and Nic Llamb. To date, Caboladies have released three full-length LPs and a countless number of limited edition tapes and cdrs.

		Margaret Patton Chapman Margaret Patton Chapman got her MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and teaches writing at Indiana University South Bend. Her work can be found at DIAGRAM, elimae, THE2NDHAND, Featherproof, and decomP magazine where she's currently fiction editor.

myspace.com/angellencoins		Coins Angela Mullenhour (Sybris) and Ellen Bunch (Reds and Blue) conjure haunted spectres of late-night beach folk trafficking heavily in what is not said. Their ethereal tiki torching and unfussy instrumentation enable Coins to glimmer. They mine the spaces between sounds, the gaps between notes, and the negative space between reverberations. Fall asleep on the beach, in the waves, wherever – Coins speaks to you; Coins waits for you.

dhalgren.bandcamp.com		Dhalgren Taking their name from the Samuel R. Delaney's apocalyptic sci-fi classic, Sam Wagster (Fruit Bats, The Singleman Affair) and Dan Mohr (DRMWPN et. al.) formed Dhalgren in 2010 as an outlet to explore ambient improvisation. In 2011, they expanded their personnel, adding Adam Vida (Singer, US Maple) and Alex Inglizian (El is a Sound of Joy). The new four-piece's sound is rich and textured, with all four members contributing to a complex base of synth drone and processed vocals, under which a driving rhythm section occasionally appears to propel the music from dense ambience to ecstatic motorik synth rock.

jasonfisk.com		Jason Fisk Jason Fisk was born in Wooster, Ohio, and spent his formative years in Minneapolis. He followed a girl from Minneapolis to Chicago, where he ended up staying (It didn’t work out with the girl; she’s back in Minneapolis). He is a devoted husband, a loving father, and a hardworking teacher. He has a chapbook of poetry, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and a forthcoming collection of poetry from Six Gallery Press.

brianlabycz.com		The Green Pasture Happiness The Green Pasture Happiness is predatory, smarmy, and slaphappy. Those who get hypnotized by its dialectic approach to the history of music do not hear what it is really saying. They sincerely believe that the cure for evil is more evil. Their violent, tendentious campaigns of malice and malignity are to improvisation what the blitzkrieg was to international diplomacy, by which it is meant that they like forcing one to fall into the trap of thinking that all musical literature that opposes diabolism was forged by resentful, unambitious bludgers. Daniel Fandino - modular synth Aaron Zarzutzki - modular synth Brian Labycz - modular synth

reidkarris.bandcamp.com		Reid Karris When performing live, Reid Karris uses his drum kit and contact mics to make loops of drum sounds, keyboards, xylophone, bells, singing bowls and various noises of all kinds. He also records albums featuring guitar, drums, and keyboards, occasionally featuring other musicians. He is quite prolific.

		Heather Momyer Heather Momyer lives in Chicago and teaches writing and literature at Columbia College. Her writing appears in journals such as Bluestem, Popular Culture Review, >kill author, Dark Sky Magazine, The Collagist, and H_NGM_N, among others. New work is forthcoming in Ekleksographia.

www.dontdissthewizard.blogspot.com		Thomas Mundt Thomas Mundt's new(ish) stories have found homes in places like The Cleveland Review, Burnt Bridge, Bartleby Snopes, and Kugelmass. He is currently completing his first story collection, You Have Until Noon to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.

myspace.com/rockfalls		Rock Falls The music of Rock Falls, singer/songwriter Annie Reese, exists in the first light of the day, when shadows are just becoming forms, and the world feels like it is rebuilding itself out of the night. Her hushed, soulful delivery belies a massive emotional power that smolders and lilts. Annie’s voice can halt a room from behind a ukelele, guitar, or full band.

		(showtunes) (showtunes) is a conceptual and largely improvised reworking of Broadway/Hollywood/Bollywood/Disney/Muppet musical numbers played entirely from fractured memory. This band takes (and highly encourages) requests. (showtunes) is Maria Elena Hernandez and D. Pennepalli (both of whom also play in a Light Sleeper).

callingallmonkeys.com		Jill Summers Jill's audio fiction has been featured internationally by Chicago Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and New Adventures in Sound Art. Her work has appeared in Stop Smiling Magazine, Ninth Letter, VAIN, littleBANG, Gapers Block, This 'Zine Will Change Your Life, Annalemma, The 2nd Hand, Please-Don't, and MAKE, and as a Featherproof MiniBook. She has three collections of audio shorts, Cohabitation, Les Petites Tristes, and The Diagnosis of Sadness. Jill has received the Weisman Grant, the CAAP grant, and an IL Arts Council Literary Award and is a two time Caxton Club Fellow. Her first play, In the Curious Hold of the Demeter: Count Orlock at Sea, was produced by The Incurable Theater this Fall at the Chicago Cultural Center. She also runs Stray Dog Recording Co. in Chicago.

myspace.com/swimignorantfire		Swim Ignorant Fire Spawning from the vast and empty fields of corn in the desolate regions of midwest Illinois, Stephen Holliger brings throbbing guitar-based textures, swirling whispered vocals, weeping feedback, and amplified electronics into his “weird, yet weirdly comforting” looping project, Swim Ignorant Fire. Surfacing as nothing and built layer by layer, Holliger nurtures analogous forms of experimentally driven ambience, dissonant hip-hop, and deconstructive pop sensibilities into his meditative and somewhat psychedelic performances. Since 2009, SIF has been in Chicago slowly injecting itself into the experimental scene through several self-releases and small shows in the city.

davesnyder.org		Dave Synder Dave Snyder was born in New Haven, CT and grew up in Seattle, WA; Lexington, MA; and Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees in geology and English and currently works as a timekeeping clerk and a gardener in Chicago. Formerly, Dave was a producer on National Public Radio's Rewind and, for a while, orthorectified 19th century coastline maps of Puget Sound. Dave's poems have appeared in Quarterly West, the Iowa Review, the Denver Quarterly, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.

myspace.com/mckenzietoma		McKenzie Toma McKenzie Toma was born in Detroit, fled to a village in Austria when she was 16, moved to Chicago when she was 17, lived on the caw of a sad crow, swelled yellow feathered breasts in the buck-wild wind, and then with a crippled lip, didn't do anything at all.

		Katie Ziolkowski Katie Ziolkowski seeks to unearth the fantastical in daily life, urging forward to a world of re-enchantment. Her work has been featured in Newcity Chicago, Dark Sky Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, and 2ndHand.com.