Plaid Live Show Preview: 1/10, Sleeping Village, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Tonight at Sleeping Village, electronic music legends Plaid will finally grace the stage after their show in August was postponed. The duo of Andy Turner and Ed Handley are a little over a year removed from Feorm Falorx (Warp), their 10th studio album, and they should play lots from it in addition to other records of theirs from the 2010s, including underrated and dramatic 2019 effort Polymer. Feorm Falorx is a concept record about a concert at the fictional Feorm Festival on the fictional planet Falorx, but you don't need to know that to appreciate its beguilingly anachronistic sounds or Plaid's generally otherworldly mixture of classic IDM/techno and ambient experimentalism.

Opening for Plaid is the trio of Whitney Johnson (Matchess), Macie Stewart (from Finom), and Lia Kohl. Abstract Science DJs spin before the show, between sets, and after the show. Tickets are currently sold out, but there may be a few available at the door, so don't give up yet! Doors at 8:00 P.M., show starts at 9.

Berenice Abbott Magnetic Field (1958-1961)

The Eagle Has Risen: Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula Caption Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest. 1907. Oil on canvas, each piece is 129 × 94 in. (328 × 240 cm). The paintings depict ten stages of human life: Nos. 1 & 2 are Childhood; Nos. 3 & 4 are Youth; Nos. 5, 6, 7 & 8 are Adulthood; Nos. 9 & 10 are Old Age.

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Art by Virgil Finlay

“Many say the moon is closer to the dead.”

This is COLOR OF A MIRROR, my debut novel with an original, dark ambient soundtrack by composer Josh McCausland to go along with it.

Written, designed, and published by me, it’s the culmination of years of work, and it’s exactly the story I wanted to tell. It’s not loud or bombastic, but rather a cerebral, slow-burn cyberpunk narrative lingering on themes of fame, paranoia, religion, and technology. If you’re a fan of the brooding futures of William Gibson, Blade Runner, or anything with a mood like the movie Drive, I think you’ll find something to love here.

Available exclusively on my website, it comes in limited edition deluxe-hardcover, softcover, and e-book. (And if you’re a vinyl lover, the soundtrack is pressed in 180g Moondust White; also available on my site.)

Welcome to the Dive. Hope to see you around.

-Dan

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(Book photos by Josh McCausland.)

"Eclipse" by Artem Chebokha

"Replacement of sediments by Cauterets granite." Igneous rocks and their origin. 1914.

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there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

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i've been busy since the first week of september– juggling school, my small business, and personal stuff T^T mentally and physically tired, but it's alright! i'm happy that i'm still a functioning human working so hard in life lol <3

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Margaret Bourke-White Fort Peck Dam, Montana. 1936.