Tense Forms // Miscellanea

Tense Forms is done.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:25:00 -0600

Thank you for all of your support over these past years. Please feel free to browse our past projects. If you have a question, contact us.

We also would like to acknowledge everyone who contributed their time and creativity to our collective: Mike Piontek, Joshua Dumas, Sarah Renee Bertsch, Craig Blakeman, Elizabeth Boyne, Kirk Bravender, Domenico Ferri, Susie Harkins, VJ Hyde, Nora McComiskey, Casey Meehan, Jaime Roche, Allison Stanley, Andy Wagner

We’re less tense, and now formless, but we’re still real busy making things. We hope to see you around.

Clsterfck on September 2nd

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:48:00 -0600

On September 2nd, Tense Forms proudly regrets our end of summer Cl*sterf*ck. Featuring the debut screening of Beach Asshole starring Mark Benson, new art produced exclusively on canvases forced upon the artists, and music by groups formed randomly for this one night event, all capped off with a headlining set by Where the Moon Came From. Click here for more information and a picture of an airplane crashing into a dancing woman with some sort of strange insect and/or peacock for a head.

800 Winters

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:32:00 -0600

800 Winters is coming soon to Chicago. It’s a showcase featuring 25 visual artists, 5 musical artists, and a short play. We’ll celebrate Radiant Darling‘s new release, Cryptomnesia. The Notes and Scratches, Casey Meehan, Ben Clarke (of Lying in States), and Andy Wagner will be there too. Marika Mashburn and Chris Matthews of the House Theatre will perform Mashburn’s new play frost. There will be art all up over the place.

It’ll be awesome. Seriously. It’s Saturday, January 28th at the Subterranean. Stop by the site for more information or get your tickets online now.

New Newsletter and Newsletter Archive

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:56:00 -0600

Soon we’ll be sending out our January newsletter, and you’ll notice quite a difference from our past newsletters. From now on they’ll be much much nicer to look at and read, including pictures of our latest releases and more links throughout. (If your email program doesn’t display HTML, don’t worry… A plain text version will automatically display instead.) Sign up now to make sure you don’t miss it!

We’ve also added a newsletter archive in case you’d like to check out our past newsletters, or you’d just rather look at them in your web browser. It’s weird to look back and see how far we’ve come… Thanks everyone for helping to make Tense Forms such a success in these five short years!

Join us for the 2nd Annual Culture of Fear

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:55:00 -0600

Join us for the 2nd Annual Culture of Fear this Saturday, October 22nd, 8:00 PM at Open End Gallery. Tense Forms and Scary Bodega present an evening of film, art, and music featuring Chris Fuller’s score for Nosferatu, pre-show music by Annie Coleman, a short film by Kate Raney, photography and paintings by Kirk Bravender and Kelly Reynolds, music by the Notes and Scratches and DJ sets by C. Israel Vines and Marcus Battista. $6 donation. BYOB. Costumes are highly encouraged—this is a Macabre Ball my pretties! Doors at 8pm, films at 9pm and music at 11pm.

New Tense Forms iCalendar

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:54:00 -0600

Those of you that subscribe to our iCalendar will want to know that it has moved and improved. Click here to subscribe to the new iCalendar. Unlike our old calendar, which was only updated a couple of times a week, this new calendar is always up to date.

For those that don’t know, iCalendar is an excellent open calendar format that’s supported by many applications including iCal, Outlook, Sunbird, and Mozilla Calendar. Thanks go to DreamHost for being one of the few web hosts to support WebDav, a technology that lets you publish and subscribe to calendars over the web.

Tense Forms moves to DreamHost

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:26:00 -0600

Pardon the mess! We’ve switched servers to DreamHost this weekend. Most things should be back to normal now but you may find a quirk here and there. Don’t hesitate to let us know!

We were quite happy with our old host, 8-95.com, and I would still recommend them to anyone, especially if you have a smaller site. We have a ton of songs on our servers though, and we go through quite a bit of bandwidth at times. With DreamHost’s current specials, they’re a much better fit for our needs.

DreamHost also has some great referral programs. If you sign up there and enter the promo code 25TO50OFF, you’ll get $25 off if you pay monthly, or $50 if you pay a year in advance. Even better, a bit of your payment will be donated to Tense Forms. You save money, we save money, everybody wins!

Tense Forms Summer Showcase

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:36:00 -0600

Our big summer art, music, film, and dance party is coming up on Saturday, July 2nd! Just $8 for a full evening with 5 bands, 3 poets, 2 filmmakers, and 17 visual artists. Get all the details on the Tense Forms Summer Showcase here.

Tense Forms Store Updates

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:27:54 -0600

We now have Tense Forms t-shirts available at the store. They’re charcoal American Apparel shirts, with the Tense Forms logo subtly hand-printed in rust-colored ink.

In addition, all of our music releases are now available in MP3-only format at half the price. Of course if you like, you can still buy the physical release and download it in MP3 format as a free bonus.

You’ll also find some subtle changes throughout the store and the main site. You can now search the store, and we’ve made downloading the songs you’ve purchased much easier. Finally, there’s a new font-size switcher in the upper-right corner, if you’d like to view the site with larger text.

Tense Radio 1.5 Released

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:14 -0600

The new Muted Tones is brought to you via a brand new version of our Tense Radio music player. We’ve added a volume control in case you don’t want to fiddle with your system’s volume. Your settings are now saved transparently; no more extra little popup windows! And most importantly, we’ve reworked the streaming so that the songs play sooner and are less likely to be interrupted.

You will also be asked to choose the audio quality the first time you use the new player. We highly recommend the HI-FI option! On a broadband connection, songs will load in just a second or two, and they’re near CD quality.

Please take a moment to tell us what you think!

Tense Radio Changes

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:20:26 -0600

We’re making some changes to Tense Radio over the course of the next few weeks. We’ve noticed that most of you are on high speed connections, yet you’re listening to the LO-FI streams. So we’ve changed the default to HI-FI just make sure you don’t miss out… They really do sound much better! If you prefer the quick downloads of the LO-FI versions, just click the button in the top-left corner.

We’re also considering improving the quality of the LO-FI streams, but we’re going to keep a close eye on things first. If you’d like to offer any input on Tense Radio, please contact us, we’d love to hear from you. Do you like Tense Radio? Have you had any problems using it? Do the songs load quickly? Are you going to eat that?

DIY Trunk Show

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 06:48:34 -0600

Join us today for the DIY Trunk Show at Pulaski Park in Chicago! We have a table and will be selling our stuff along with 80 or so other cool lovely DIY craft/art types. Get your holiday shopping done and support local handmaking peoples. Admission is free, and it lasts from 10AM to 4:30PM

Election Day

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:34:53 -0600

Today is Election Day. We strongly encourage you to take some time out of your day to go vote. Not registered? In some states that doesn’t matter! For more information, look up your state’s web site here

Need a little convincing or just want to see some cool vote art? Visit The Vote Project. I love this one by 808080, and here’s a nice one from Tracy Shirer

Tense Forms RSS Feeds Now Available

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 03:04:38 -0600

Tense Forms now offers RSS feeds of our updates, calendar, and reviews to help you keep up to date. Visit our RSS feeds section for more information

WLUW record fair

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:04:57 -0600

Join Tense Forms Saturday, April 24th at the WLUW Record Fair in Chicago. See the calendar for more information

moved to dixiesys

Wed, 07 May 2003 20:50:36 -0600

once again we must aplogize for our recent web site issues. after continuing problems, we were startled to discover the sketchy past of our previous web host. we are now hosted by dixiesys.com and we hope our stay there will be a much more pleasant one. their support staff has been extremely helpful during the move, and things ought to be fully back to normal now. thanks for your patience!

DIY trunk show

Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:44:04 -0600

meet us in person this saturday at the DIY Trunk Show at Pulaski Park in Chicago. we’re selling our stuff and there’ll be 30 or so other smoking cool lovely DIY craft/art types whose goods may be had. get directions or find out more

tense calendar added

Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:24:01 -0600

we are pleased to announce our new calendar, where you can find out about all tense forms related events in one place. it will be updated regularly, so check back often!

new server

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 16:37:35 -0600

we apologize for our recent web site issues, as well as for the duplicate emails sent out to our mailing list. things are all fine now, here… how are you?

tense forms v3.0

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:32:23 -0600

welcome to the newly redesigned tense forms web site! it has pretty pictures now, each tense forms project has its own page, and now you can send your friends one of our stylish tense forms postcards. you can also download wallpaper of each postcard. let us know what you think!