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On Saturday there’s Rubblebucket at Lincoln Hall, Dave Douglas Quintet at Green Mill, and Inspector Owl at Beat Kitchen. On Sunday you can take in sets from Leo Kottke at SPACE or Liza Day at Schubas (for more information about that show check out this week’s Gossip Wolf). There are plenty of other concerts happening this weekend—scroll through Soundboard for every musical event you need to know about this weekend and read on for some picks from Reader critics.
“When flutist Anne La Berge left the U.S. for Amsterdam in 1989, she put aside her aspirations as a composer and set out on a circuitous path that would lead her to a niche in the netherworld between improvisation, electronics, and noise,” writes Peter Margasak. “On the 2011 album Speak (New World), she augmented her flute with text and computers; ‘Drive’ combines a fictional interview with Mary Anderson (an Alabama woman who invented the windshield wiper after riding a New York trolley whose driver had to stop and get out to clear snow off his windows) with sputtering digital clicks, distorted flute, ominous industrial drones, and sampled discussions of the female reproductive system. The heart of La Berge’s practice is improvisation, though, and she’s been an important part of the Amsterdam scene for years; she not only founded the wide-open Kraakgeluiden series with Steve Heather and Cor Fuhler, but she also plays in the latter’s shape-shifting Corkestra.”
Sun 12/8: MellowHigh at Subterranean
