Lisa E. Harris vocals theremin electronics composer
Nicole M Mitchell flute electronics composer
Julian Otis vocals
ZARA ZAHARIEVA Violin
Ben lumbar gay trumpet electronics
Tomeka Reid cello
Avreeayl Ra percussion
Krista Franklin Art
Wheatgodess creations publishing administration studio enertia media
6/22/07 Chicago
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Bw randomly selected collage art by Ms Franklin:

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7. a note sent to Matt Merewitz, Nicole’s publicist, and Nicole herself, at her University of Pittsburgh office email address, announcing that I posted this much;

8. My wife is watching Barbara Streisand and Omar Shariff as Fanny Brice in “Funny Lady” with music by Jule Styne and my neighbor’s teenage son and a friend are making noise but not yet destructive non-neighborly acts of aggression outside the window and over the fence, and I am reading the first 70 or so parts of David Shields’ “Reality Hunger” and I am wondering to what extent “Funny Lady” influences “EarthSeed” or is it preposterous to try to compare the works and the workers – and I captured a wee bit of it on TV – -BS preggers — seems thematic — but then, reading about Nicole, I jump to some official website hoping to determine by Survey Monkey type survey the 35 biggest jazz moments in Chicago history — though Nicole Mitchell and this piece is arguably also L.A. and Pittsburgh and Houston — and here is what my two clicks worth yields:
1915: The word “jazz” first printed in the Chicago Tribune to describe a musical form: 1943: Muddy Waters moved to Chicago; 1980: The Chicago-based Blues Brothers film released 1990: Tortoise formed 1994: Wilco Formed Which sort of relates in that Tortoise is a project featuring Jeff Parker who is a peer and collaborator of Mitchell, but of course I missed AACM and a couple others, like Sun Ra. Sun Ra would seem an influence on anything afro-futurist.
And it was Sun Ra’s birthday last week.

9. I noticed that Megan Thee Stallion is on the cover of Marie Claire. Again, it depends on how much Lisa Harris, or Li Harris or Lisa E. Harris is a true partner relative to the more advanced Mitchell;

10. I do recall and was just REMing thru it, Nicole by GR in the Times from about 2 years ago. There is something, an image, in the Lynda Barry sense, of Nicole roller skating on campus and getting noticed by a professor who tells her to come join the jazz band, did I make that up?

11. I’m Looking for a contemporaneous review of Nicole Mitchell EarthSeed from when it debuted at Chicago Art Institute or Art Institute of Chicago.

12. Riane Eisler, “Chalice and the Blade”, 1988, I saw somewhere cited by NM:

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