"Fifth House Ensemble combines music with social media" -- In Transit: #wink WBEZ preview and interview

Fifth House Ensemble combines music with social media

by Joe DeCeault | Feb. 20, 2012

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Fifth House Ensemble performs on 'Afternoon Shift' at WBEZ from WBEZ on Vimeo.

Less than a decade ago, social media forms like Facebook, Twitter and others were non-existent.  Yet today, they’re as ubiquitous as, say, music in our lives.  Both music and social media serve as narrative forms, in many senses.  And, each often play a role in our own individual (and group) narratives.  We use them both to help tell the stories of our lives.

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Chicago chamber group Fifth House Ensemble (5HE) brings together these forces in their latest series, In Transit.  The multi-media series takes place in four stories, each uniquely identified by its respective hashtag:  #undercoverhero, #thisrocks, #wink, #iwitness.

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For #wink, the latest story in the series, 5HE merges mostly mid-century classical music with the drudgery of online dating to tell the tale of a lawyer who seemingly has all aspects of her life in order, but for a partner to share it with.

Members of Fifth House Ensemble join Afternoon Shift’s Steve Edwards to talk about In Transit, and to perform excerpts from "#wink," the third story in the 4-part series.

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