01.18.02 squareone, chicago / from concentrate: yuppster, string theory, paul b. davis, heavy petting, etc. My buddy Alex, who organized my very first public appearance as a serious electronic musician- "from concentrate", now asked me to play at the sequal, with a great lineup of electronic acts playing on 2 floors of this juice bar / coffee house place called squareone. I had to haul all my stuff (CPU, flat screen monitor, and gameboy bag) via the L to the Damon stop. I was to play downstairs so I set up my crap and mingled. Multi-modal started off the night with an electro flavor, using a bunch of old drum machines and a gameboy. As you can see they had alot of junk to mess with. Then the mysterious Joe-E (chaosh) made some experimental noise. Then some guy's synth appeared. Above, to the left, is the very talented Proswell, who played a very wonderful, but low volume, set. Then Paul B. Davis, of Beige Records, did an awesome DJ set with a nice collection of tracks. He ran the audio through his Tandy Color Computer creating a nice colorful compliment to the music and also screened Urbandale, a ascii movie by the Beige Programming Ensemble. He's pictured above wearing his Bodenstandig 2000 shirt.