Natural Information Society is Chicago Music History in Motion
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photo by Ike Day A little less than two years ago, I found myself alone in New York City for a week. My school’s COVID reopening plan meant that I had to take a semester off in fall 2020 and then do two straight semesters from the winter through the summer of 2021, and September of that year felt like my first real time off in ages. Over the course of the pandemic I had become obsessed with avant-garde Jazz and experimental music, and was kicking myself at the amount of musicians whom I could have seen during the before times but missed the chance due to my willful ignorance. So I used this trip to New York, which happened at a time when live music was still only just starting to return, as a means of making up for all of that lost time. Though I had plenty of friends in the city, I spent most of my time alone, hopping from one show to the next, often going to two or three shows a day. It was an astonishing cluster of brilliant, creative music, including Amirtha Kidambi & Darius Jones, Daniel Carter, Jason Nazary, gabby fluke-mogul, Samara Lubelski, Bill Nace, Sam Newsome, Elliott Sharp, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hiro Kone, and the late, great Jaimie Branch. But the highlight of the entire thing was getting to see Natural Information Society, a group that wasn’t even based in the city, perform with William Parker.
Natural Information Society is Chicago Music History in Motion
Natural Information Society is Chicago Music…
Natural Information Society is Chicago Music History in Motion
photo by Ike Day A little less than two years ago, I found myself alone in New York City for a week. My school’s COVID reopening plan meant that I had to take a semester off in fall 2020 and then do two straight semesters from the winter through the summer of 2021, and September of that year felt like my first real time off in ages. Over the course of the pandemic I had become obsessed with avant-garde Jazz and experimental music, and was kicking myself at the amount of musicians whom I could have seen during the before times but missed the chance due to my willful ignorance. So I used this trip to New York, which happened at a time when live music was still only just starting to return, as a means of making up for all of that lost time. Though I had plenty of friends in the city, I spent most of my time alone, hopping from one show to the next, often going to two or three shows a day. It was an astonishing cluster of brilliant, creative music, including Amirtha Kidambi & Darius Jones, Daniel Carter, Jason Nazary, gabby fluke-mogul, Samara Lubelski, Bill Nace, Sam Newsome, Elliott Sharp, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hiro Kone, and the late, great Jaimie Branch. But the highlight of the entire thing was getting to see Natural Information Society, a group that wasn’t even based in the city, perform with William Parker.