A Place To Bury Strangers SLC Hardcore Bands Reunite Powderwhore Productions Vol 23 Issue 287 November 2012 Always Free slugmag.com slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 23 • Issue #287 • Nov. 2012 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Team: Ischa B., Stephanie Editor: Angela H. 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Contributor Limelight: Sean Zimmerman-Wall – Writer Sean Zimmerman-Wall, or “Z-Dub,” as we sometimes call him, has been writing action sports content for SLUG since 2008, when he covered the Freeskiing World Tour at Snowbird. Since then, he’s written poignant poetry on everything from paragliding to downhill mountain biking—his favorite SLUG assignment so far being a recent recap of the 2012 Red Bull Rampage, which you can check out at slugmag.com. Z-Dub’s action sports experience isn’t just a bunch of words and punctuation, though. Sean works as a ski patroller at Snowbird during the winter, spends the warmer months as a salesman at Millcreek Bicycles and, for the past three years, has been helping develop patagoniaskitours.com, where he takes brave souls on adventures in the backcountry of Argentine Patagonia. Z-Dub’s work has also been featured in Powder Magazine and UtahOutside.com. 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Fax: 801.487.1349 • Mailing Address: Dear Dickheads c/o SLUG Mag 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B SLC, UT 84101 or [email protected] 6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 Brunch for the Ears: THE By Scott Farley NOVA [email protected] Chamber Music Series The new season of the NOVA that it is expressed as a memory Chamber Music Series began in of friends and family in the voices October with a perfect illustration of the of the instruments. “The second movement mission of this little arts group: pairing the most came very quickly last summer,” he says. classical of classical chamber music––Mozart–– in the music.” Chuaqui composes music for with two virtuosic (read: devilishly hard to play) orchestras and small groups, as well as for Using some DJ-reminiscent time changes and pieces by Utah composer Bruce Quaglia. electronic instruments. He has also collaborated on reverberating fades, he augments the normal interactive dance systems, and he helped develop ideas for these instruments, taking a set of musical The NOVA Chamber Music Series plays local software for interactive musical therapy systems accusations and then differently recounting the and very new music in increasingly close measure with the University of Utah Hospital. story. Now changed in the telling, he invokes a with the rest of the program’s adventurous, but meditation on memory and on the transmutation also canonical, repertoire. According to Jason Though he grew up in Chile, Chuaqui doesn’t from the known to the remembered––the creation Hardink, current artistic director of NOVA, this want to be “that folk tune guy.” He says, “Just of “Confabulario.” is a continuation of previous director Corbin like we don’t grow up with square dance, I Johnston’s vision for the series: “This makes didn’t grow up with that music, necessarily … As an innovative composer, Chuaqui says, “I’m NOVA a venue unlike any other musical presenter But we wear that rhythm on our sleeve … There in the fortunate position to be in demand.” When in town in terms of combining old and new music is always just something there with all the South not writing for traditional ensembles, he writes in a way that makes you hear them both differently.