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SUMMARY:Andrew Fitzpatrick\, Patrick Best at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Best’s contributions to both drone and folk music in Wisconsin trace back to Richmond\, Virginia and the formation of Pelt in the 1990s. Performing and recording solo\, as well as with Troy Schafer and Pelt member Mikel Dimmick in Spiral Joy Band\, Best switches among guitar\, viola\, harmonium\, vocals\, and piano. Best’s music often yields a deep listening\, trance-like experience. He tells Tone Madison that his goal for this solo performance at Arts +Lit Lab is to “deepen the trance.” He’ll be building a drone on harmonium and working with a drum loop\, trying something new with elements that have formed the foundation of his musical endeavors for the past 30 years.  \nMadison-based improviser\, guitarist\, and synth manipulator Andrew Fitzpatrick (sometimes operating under the alias Noxroy) plays in a number of projects including Cap Alan\, Volcano Choir\, All Tiny Creatures\, and Bon Iver. While he often collaborates with any number of local experimental artists\, Fitzpatrick performs here solo\, offering an improvised set with guitar and electronics while in between Bon Iver tours. Historically\, solo Fitzpatrick sets offer a hazy\, gauzy warmth interspersed with bright\, gleaming tones that should fill the room at ALL beautifully.  \n—Emili Earhart \nIn the River by Spiral Joy Band\nIllustration by Shaysa Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/andrew-fitzpatrick-patrick-best-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:John & Dan\, Tekla Peterson at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Guitarist Dan Kaufman and percussionist/multi-instrumentalist John Bollinger have covered some truly sprawling territory with each other over the years in the NYC-based outfit Barbez. Since the early 2000s\, that band has twisted its way through eerie experimental rock full of aching melody\, drawing on elements of Eastern European folk music and jagged free jazz with equal fluency. This is not merely a novel combination of surface touches\, either. Technical daring and a deep sense of history run through Barbez’s discography\, which includes multiple projects celebrating the anti-fascist resistance movements of the mid-20th century. (Kaufman is a Madison native\, and indeed we’re talking about the same Dan Kaufman who has chronicled the modern history of Wisconsin politics in his journalism for The New Yorker and The New York Times\, and in his 2018 book The Fall Of Wisconsin.)  \nBollinger and Kaufman also play together as a duo\, simply named John & Dan\, with the kind of expansive looseness that can only come from years of collaboration and focus. On “Rainy Day In Bern\,” Bollinger’s vibraphone cascades gently over Kaufman’s wiry guitar trills and loops\, occasionally giving way to outbursts of dense chords and restive drumkit. The two dig deeper into jagged instrumental rock on the frenetic “Fear Of Midtown” and the downright furious “D&D\,” which begins with a calming vocal interlude before Bollinger lunges in with a bass part of nearly Jesus Lizard proportions—the kind where the impact of pick and string kind of hurts—over the bristling turbulence of his own drums. \nJohn & Dan recorded these and several other tracks in sessions for the project’s forthcoming debut album. They began working on the recordings several years ago with producer Martin Bisi (who has worked with artists including John Zorn\, Brian Eno\, and Sonic Youth)\, and finally finished the tracking in April 2023. They’ll be drawing on that material at this show\, perhaps also incorporating some of Bollinger’s playfully odd videos into the set.  \nOpening up here is Tekla Peterson\, the romantic and tormented synth-pop alter ego of Madison-based musician Taralie Peterson. A veteran of formidable avant-garde projects like Spires That In The Sunset Rise and Louise Bock\, she debuted the Tekla Peterson moniker with the 2022 release of Heart Press. Its six songs blend sugary hooks with the anguished yearning of Peterson’s vocals. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nJohn and Dan · Rainy Day In Bern\n  \nPhoto by Gabrielle Plucknette.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/john-dan-tekla-peterson-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Feestet (ft. Frank McKearn IV) at North Street Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Feestet—who have finalized their name after previously appearing as Feest\, Helen Feest Quartet\, and Helen Feest Quintet—have covered a lot of ground as an eccentric jazz act that’s not afraid to take risks. Made up of vocalist Helen Feest\, pianist Luke Leavitt\, bassist Ari Smith\, guitarist Anthony Utehs\, and drummer Matty Benjamin Allen\, Feestet’s musical imprint should be familiar to anyone versed in Madison’s jazz scene. For their forthcoming show at North Street Cabaret\, Feestet will be joined by Frank McKearn IV on EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument). An ancestor of the EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument)\, the EVI has a fascinating\, tumultuous history that ultimately ends with its production being abandoned in 1996. As a result\, the instrument—created by studio musician Nyle Steiner in the early 70s—is now considered a relative rarity. \n\nMcKearn—a Beloit native—is presently a Chicago-based audio engineer who has a long history with Madison-based jazz musicians (McKearn cites Darren Sterud as a significant mentor). While McKearn is most often regarded as a trumpet player\, his work of late with the EVI has allowed his reputation within the jazz circuit to take on an additional dimension. On May 11\, Feestet and McKearn are set to perform “a special blend of arranged jazz classics\, collaborations\, and original music\,” per the show description on their website. For attendees\, it’ll be a chance to familiarize themselves with a bit of musical history.  \n—Steven Spoerl \n 
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/feestet-ft-frank-mckearn-iv-at-north-street-cabaret/
LOCATION:North Street Cabaret\, 610 North Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Tone Madison Office Hours at Forward Craft & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Tone Madison‘s Office Hours are back!  \nJoin us at Forward Craft & Coffee at 2166 Atwood Ave. from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday\, May 12\, 2023. Enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of craft beer while you get to meet our new Fundraising and Finance Director\, Micaela Magel\, and chat with the rest of our crew to see what we’ve been up to and share your feedback. We will have swag to give and will graciously accept donations\, but no pressure. We want to meet with our readers and hear what you have to say! \n—Micaela Magel
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tone-madison-office-hours-at-forward-craft-coffee/
LOCATION:Forward Craft & Coffee\, 2166 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tone Madison Events
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SUMMARY:Fool's Paradise at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Wearing a blazer and fedora\, Latte Pronto (Charlie Day) sits in an office and stares forward with a confused look on his face. \n“Fool’s Paradise” is also screening at Marcus Palace Cinema and AMC Fitchburg. \nFool’s Paradise\, the newly released comedy written\, starring\, and directed by It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Charlie Day\, plays against Day’s strengths so much that you have to wonder if it’s some kind of meta-prank on the public. Maybe Day is just seeing if he can garner praise from Sunny loyalists for a movie that isn’t funny at all\, despite much of the dialogue having at least the rhythm of jokes. It’s currently getting a fairly sizable theatrical push nationwide; and\, while it’s hard to endorse rushing out to the theater to see it\, you may get the chance to commiserate with other Sunny superfans\, and hopefully give Day the chance to get another swing that will connect next time\, or simply see a beautiful face\, huge. \nThe premise is a mix of The Prince And The Pauper and Being There (1979) (which Day freely admits to stealing from): a mute\, institutionalized man (Day) is dumped on the streets of Los Angeles\, and immediately is recognized as identical in appearance to huge movie star Sir Thomas Billingsly (also Day). He’s immediately whisked onto a movie set by an impatient producer (the late Ray Liotta)\, and begins his ascent to stardom despite not uttering a word\, unable to discern acting from reality or stop himself from looking directly into camera at all times. He’s accidentally dubbed Latte Pronto\, and a sweaty and desperate publicist Lenny (Ken Jeong) immediately latches onto him. \nEvery character Latte encounters is too self-involved to notice that the guy is completely blank;  they just project whatever else they think is needed onto him. Here\, Day is robbed of his signature\, manic line deliveries\, and prevents himself from making any facial expressions beyond bewilderment or a weak smile\, which leave the whole affair completely flat. (For a better use of silent-film era acting in a more modern context\, I’d recommend 1989’s Sidewalk Stories.) The initial setup gives a vague promise that Latte’s mute condition will be explained\, but that scene must have been left on the cutting room floor (to use a somewhat hackneyed phrase in keeping with a hackneyed movie). \nThe film was apparently filmed pre-pandemic\, and has been languishing in post-production since then. The extended editing time results in many scenes that have the bizarre feeling of comic staging\, but with the punchlines excised. The cast is stacked with celebrities that Day surely had to cash in some favors to get: Kate Beckinsdale\, Adrien Brody\, Jason Sudekis\, Edie Falco\, Jason Bateman\, Common\, and John Malkovich all make appearances. And of course Sunny regulars like Day’s wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis\, Jimmi Simpson\, Artemis Pebdani\, Lance Barber\, David Hornsby and Glenn Howerton round out the who’s who. \nDay has certainly had the most successful film career of the four main Sunny cast members (and recently voiced Luigi in the Super Mario Bros. Movie)\, but Fool’s Paradise feels closer in tone to Howerton’s appearance in the abysmal Coffee Town (2013) than something that plays to his strengths. After 18 years on TV\, presumably Day knows what he does well\, so it remains a mystery as to why he would write a vehicle for himself that does none of that. Without the mean streak that presumably rests more with Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney than Day (on Sunny)\, you get something so toothless you can feel some very sentimental gums nibbling your ear. \n—Lewis Peterson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/fools-paradise-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Storytelling As Advocacy In The Beloved Community at A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:Madison-based author Tegan Nia Swanson’s 2022 debut novel\, Things We Found When The Water Went Down\, starts with the basic elements of a murder mystery: a body\, the cops\, a suspect. From there\, Swanson spirals into the tangled lore of a family and a place. The decaying mine town of Beau Caelais and the Inland Sea it sits on are familiar stand-ins for any number of post-industrial places along the Great Lakes. The map Swanson provides in the book will also remind Madisonians of a less-great but still beloved lake.  \nSwanson fills this setting with an uncanny blend of small-town grudges and righteously wrathful magic. As teenage protagonist Lena Abernathy tries to understand why her mother was arrested for the murder (then escaped from jail and disappeared)\, she uncovers her share of petty human secrets\, but connects with forces far more vast and terrible and beautiful. Swanson’s non-linear storytelling approach lets the reader get richly immersed in the book’s overlapping themes: deep-seated cultures of misogynist violence\, environmental degradation\, and the resilient chosen families queer people build in a hostile world. \nThat’s all just a hint of the depths\, and the depths beyond the depths\, that the novel explores. Things We Found When The Water Went Down reads like a scrapbook of its own mythology. Between passages that Lena narrates in first-person\, other characters leave behind interview transcripts\, newspaper clippings\, cryptic notes\, stately poetic declarations. It’s an approach that may gradually draw in readers who enjoy fantasy novels\, or immersive piece-together-the-story video games like Gone Home and What Remains Of Edith Finch.  \nAt this event\, a fundraiser for Freedom Inc. and UNIDOS (a Madison non-profit serving Latino survivors of domestic violence)\, Swanson will take part in a panel discussion with Freedom Inc.’s Jessica Williams\, UNIDOS’ Virginia Gittens Escudero\, and City of Madison Poet Laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez. Swanson and Vasquez also both work at End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin. The panel\, titled “Storytelling As Advocacy In The Beloved Community\,” will likely draw connections between the novel’s exploration of violence against women and all the panelists’ day-to-day work.  \nOn May 18\, a Room of One’s Own will also be donating 10 percent of all its in-store and online sales to Freedom Inc. and UNIDOS. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nWORT 89.9FM Madison · Madison Book Beat: Tegan Nia Swanson on “Things We Found When The Water Went Down”
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/storytelling-as-advocacy-in-the-beloved-community-at-a-room-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:A Room of One’s Own\, 2717 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture
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SUMMARY:WisCon 46 at Madison Concourse Hotel and Central Library
DESCRIPTION:WisCon launched in 1977\, with the goal of tackling “feminist and pointedly left-leaning topics” in science fiction\, that other sci-fi gatherings barely acknowledge. Over the years\, it has welcomed to Madison several of the all-time great sci-fi and fantasy writers: Octavia E. Butler\, Samuel R. Delany\, Nnedi Okorafor\, Kim Stanley Robinson… and the list really does go on. Just as importantly\, WisCon has become a community in and of itself. Attendees from all over gather in Madison annually over Memorial Day Weekend for readings\, panels\, workshops\, and the bestowing of the annual Otherwise Award. It was abundantly clear just how many people in how many places care deeply about WisCon when\, in 2021\, organizers held an emergency fundraising campaign. The fundraiser succeeded\, with vocal support from across the diverse ranks of SFF writers working today. \nSince then\, convention organizers have worked to make the convention more inclusive. They’ve also announced that the con will take a break in 2024 to let its all-volunteer leadership recharge for the future. But for 2023\, the schedule is packed with sessions in the Madison Concourse Hotel’s conference rooms. This year’s WisCon will also keep up the tradition of an opening-night reading\, featuring two guests of honor\, that is free and open even to those who aren’t registered for the con proper. That’s Thursday\, May 25 at 6 p.m. at the Central Library.  \nThis year’s guests are Rivers Solomon and Martha Wells\, and I’m particularly excited to finally get to hear Solomon read. Their 2017 debut novel\, An Unkindness Of Ghosts\, takes place on a generation ship where theocratic tyrants rule over a stratified society of rich whites and a brutally exploited Black underclass. It’s very explicitly the antebellum South in space—humanity recommitting to hierarchy\, cruelty\, and control even as it seeks a second chance among the stars. Its protagonist\, Aster\, is a queer\, neurodivergent outsider among the oppressed\, rebelling against the ship’s viciously regimented social order. It’s devastatingly powerful. So are the two novels that followed An Unkindness Of Ghosts\, 2019’s The Deep (great as a standalone book\, also great as part of a multi-media collaboration with hip-hop group clipping.) and 2021’s Sorrowland. Wells’ body of work spans dozens of sci-fi and fantasy novels\, including the Murderbot Diaries series\, whose 10th installment\, System Collapse\, is due out in November. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto of Rivers Solomon by Wasi Daniju.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/wiscon-46-at-madison-concourse-hotel-and-central-library/
LOCATION:Madison Concourse Hotel\, 1 West Dayton Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture
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