Slowdive
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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William Basinski
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Madison McFerrin
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Madison McFerrin
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Madison McFerrin
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Madison McFerrin
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Madison McFerrin
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Mount Eerie
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Mount Eerie
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Mount Eerie
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Mount Eerie
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Mount Eerie
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Mount Eerie
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Yves Tumor
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Haley Fohr
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Haley Fohr
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Haley Fohr
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Haley Fohr
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Haley Fohr
photo by Christian Heinzel
Haley Fohr
photo by Christian Heinzel
Haley Fohr
photo by Christian Heinzel
Mount Eerie
photo by Christian Heinzel
Mount Eerie
photo by Christian Heinzel
Mount Eerie
photo by Christian Heinzel
Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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Slowdive
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DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
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DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
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DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
DJ Koze & Baba Stiltz
photo by Christian Heinzel
Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Tortoise
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Deerhunter
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Mary Lattimore
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Mary Lattimore
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Mary Lattimore
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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Kamasi Washington
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serpentwithfeet
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serpentwithfeet
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serpentwithfeet
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serpentwithfeet
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Jlin
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Jlin
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Jlin
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Jlin
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Panda Bear
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Panda Bear
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Panda Bear
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Panda Bear
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius
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Hiss Golden Messenger
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Hiss Golden Messenger
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Hiss Golden Messenger
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Hiss Golden Messenger
photo by Christian Heinzel
Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Smerz
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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Joey Purp
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How do you throw a music festival in an art museum? Well, quietly, for one. Midwinter’s “soundscapes” ended up just being a couple of Sonos speakers playing an ambient loop, and the larger sets too often felt like background music to a vaguely interested crowd. (You shouldn’t be able to hear the guy behind you casually failing to impress a fellow attendee with boasts about the quality of his cocaine, for example.) Still, a sort of miracle occurred during DJ Koze’s set, and for the first time on Friday night, the volume finally wrangled the crowd into submission, uniting everyone in a wash of delirious house beats and the producer’s signature sense of easy, alien melody. Koze lit a stick of incense, which wafted through the air, and I could’ve sworn I saw a group discretely hitting a vape pen in the crowd. Maybe you really can throw a music festival in an art museum! [AV Club]
Pitchfork and The Art Institute of Chicago threw their inaugural three-night Midwinter Fest throughout the museum on February 15-17. Performers included Slowdive, Laurie Anderson, Kamasi Washington, Panda Bear, Oneohtrix Point Never, Deerhunter, William Basinski (who performed The Disintegration Loops with The Chicago Philharmonic on Friday and On Time Out of Time on Saturday), Perfume Genius, DJ Koze, serpentwithfeet, Jlin, Grouper, Yves Tumor, Mount Eerie, Mary Lattimore, Hiss Golden Messenger, Joey Purp, Tortoise (who performed TNT for its 21st anniversary), Smerz, Haley Fohr, Madison McFerrin, Baba Stiltz, and more. Check out pictures from all three nights in the gallery above.
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photos by Christian Heinzel