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news archive
Love Sucks XII Celebrating post-Valentine's Day bitterness! Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:00pm - 5:00pm|
Ah, Valentine's Day. That time of year when we're all expected to have plans for a romantic evening, and showers of chocolates, and flowers in hand. Finding yourself bitter around this time of the year? Come celebrate with Caltech's a cappella groups, Out of Context and Fluid Dynamics, at the twelfth annual "Love Sucks" festival! Every year, we invite groups from all around southern California to join us in celebrating bitterness and rejection. We've got some FANTASTIC and many-award-winning groups performing for you this year:
and your hosts, Caltech's own Out of Context and Fluid Dynamics Admission is FREE, refreshments will be served, hearts will be melted with harmony, and the air will be buzzing with bass! We hope to see you all there! |
| Do you love singing? Are you ready to ROCK? OoC wants you! OoC will be holding auditions for all voice parts on September 29th, 30th, and October 31st. We encourage ANYONE who is affiliated with Caltech and wants to try a cappella to audition, regardless of age or experience. Even if you don't have any musical background, don't worry! Some of our members have had no musical training whatsoever before they joined OoC! So come and sign up for the audition at Club Fair on this Saturday (27th). For more information, go here. If you didn't sign up at the club fair but want to try out, let us know.We look forward to seeing you! |
| Let's make this brief. I'm single, I'm sad and lonely. You're paired up, you're upset and bitter. Now, there is a place to celebrate the common ground of sucky love. For more information about the concert, check this out (because I'm lazy). Just know that eight awesome groups will be singing their hearts out to numb the pain in your heart. |
Happy New Year!
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Happy new year! We've got a bunch of new songs and a huge Anti-Valentine's Day I Hate Love It Sucks concert coming up in just one month! It's going to be awesome! Stay tuned for more details. |
The OoCFrosh are Here!
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OK, so this news is a bit late in coming, but, we'd like to introduce the eight new members of OoC! In no particular order, they are: Saurabh Pandey, Tenor, '11, Avery Jen Hawley, Alto, '08, Blacker Christina Lee, Mezzo, '11, Avery Shankar Kalyanaraman, Baritone, Grad '08 Tommy Taak, Tenor, '11, Ruddock Dylan Lee, Mezzo, '11, Avery Kyung-ha Lee, Soprano, '11, Avery Daniel Haas, Bari, '11, Dabney Thanks to everyone who came to audition and encourage people to come try out next year. We're psyched to start a new year with these awesome singers and you'll be hearing from us all soon! |
Nicole Morgan proves OoC = TV !
| Here's some fun OoC trivia: Niky Morgan, an OoC alumna, is on Beauty on the Geek Season 4 on the CW network Tuesdays 8/7c. Right now Halfway through the season, she's still going strong on the show. You can take a glimpse of her OoC biography some years ago. Gogo Niky! |
Prefrosh are here!
| Thanks for coming out to the club fair to hear us! We had an excellent time singing for you all. For some it was their last OoC performance, and so we're sad to see Artie and Jessica, graduate OoC. You guys rock! |
California A Cappella Festival - Saturday, April 7th, 1pm and 7:30pm, Wilson Plaza and Ackerman Grand Ballroom
| Hey guys! We'll be at UCLA this Saturday once again, to celebrate an acappella lollapalooza with the UCLA Random Voices. They came to our Love Sucks concert and now we're visiting their concert. There'll be a very large number (10) of groups there, so we're very excited! If you're in the area, be sure to check it out. More info's available on the Random Voices website. |
New Directors!
| OoC is proud to unveil their new directors, Soyoung Park and Albert Wu! Hooray! |
Harmony Sweepstakes - Saturday, March 10th, 7:30pm, Hermosa Beach Playhouse
| Thanks to all who came to Love Sucks X and made it a great concert! Now that we're finished with being bitter about love, we're going to the beach! |
| That's right, Out of Context is going to the Hermosa Beach Playhouse for Harmony Sweepstakes, one of a cappella's premier competitions! If you'd like to come join us on the beach and hear some exciting a cappella, e-mail us at ooc@caltech.edu. The cost is $15 per ticket for associated students, which is about the cost of one CDS dinner. So come, enjoy the beach, and support your local a cappella group! |
Love Sucks X - Saturday, February 24th, 3.00pm-5.00pm,
Dabney Lounge
| Love is a many-splendored thing... unless you just broke up or are single, in which case it's that annoying feeling everyone's a flutter about. Well, now you have an opportunity to commiserate with kindred disillusioned spirits. Out of Context and Fluid Dynamics will be singing all the anti-love songs we can think of, and so will some great guest groups too. |
| So if you've ever been dumped, duped, or disappointed by love, you should come to listen to us! |
More information can be found on the events page.
New Members (again!) - Monday, January 29th
| Congratulations to our new member, Dan Kahn (Ruddock '10)! He's more than enough awesome for a whole crop of new Oocfrosh. |
OoC @ Decompression - Saturday, December 2nd, 7.15pm,
Winnett Lounge
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If you've (1) stepped back into your room just for the bed, (2) been stressed and sheared in ways humanly impossible, (3) seriously considered intravenous caffeine, or (4) been compacted beyond the fermion degeneracy pressure... We'll sing our latest songs, clap, shake, and even pretend to dance! |
OoC leaves Caltech! - Friday, November 10th to 12th
| Well, not quite. We're heading off for our Fall Retreat over the weekend, so if you wanted us for the weekend... you're outta luck. :) |
OoC Newbies! - Tuesday, October 31st
| Welcome to the new members of OoC! And they are, in a completely random order determined by the quantum mechanics of my brain: Dahye Song, Borching Su, Chithra Krishnamurthy, and Douglas Tham! |
OoC Auditions - Monday and Tuesday, September 25th and 26th, 10pm-1am, Avery Conference Room
| A new school year's starting, and with it we're looking forward to picking up some new voices. Our group is not just choir people, but pop singers, rock stars, occassionally rappers, and always unique. We'll be holding auditions during Rotation Week, both for prefrosh and interesting upperclassmen. Even if you've never sung anywhere but the shower, we want you to come out to audition. For more information, go here. Please note that the audition times have been changed up a bit. Check the auditions site for your new time! |
It's Hook-slide! - Saturday, April 29th, 7pm,Baxter Lecture Hall
| That's right, Hook-slide is coming back to Caltech! They're a four-person slam-banging mind-blowing semi-professional a cappella group out of San Francisco, and they'll be here in LA for the weekend. You may have heard (or should I say, experienced) them last year at Caltech - if you have, you should come back for more. If you haven't, you don't want to miss out! More details will be up on the events page soon. |
| Note: The event has been moved from Sherman-Fairchild Amphitheater to Baxter Lecture Hall, on the third floor of Baxter. |
New Director! - Wednesday, March 29, 2006
| Congradulations to John Shen for being the new director of Out of Context! Through this spring term we'll be turning over some other offices, so stay tuned. |
Alumni Biographies wheeeee... - Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
| Check them out here! If you're an alumni who wants a new (or a better) biography, email the webmaster here. |
Guest Performances for Decompression Winter Term - Saturday - Sunday, March 11th-12th, 7pm-9pm, Avery Dining Hall
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First of all, a gi-normous thank you to everyone who came to Love Sucks last week. All of the groups sang wonderfully, and you guys, the audience, were equally most excellent. We're still totally psyched from the concert, so... |
| We're happy to announce that we'll have not one, but TWO East Coast groups arriving on campus to sing for Decompression! They are Drew University's On a Different Note and Columbia University's Uptown Vocal. They'll be singing on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, while you folks enjoy one last meal before winter finals. If you want to hear us though, never fear because we'll be opening them up. Come along for some free food and awesome singing! |
Love Sucks VERY SOON! - Saturday, February 25th, 3:00 pm, Avery Dining Hall
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Just a reminder - our annual Love Sucks concert is in less than two days! We've been practicing and preparing extra hard to make this the most awesome Love Sucks this year! ;) If you want details, click here - if you want more details, e-mail moi, le webmaster. This year our sister group FD will be selling their debut album, and we'll be selling yummy refreshments. So clear your Saturday afternoon and get on over to watch us sing!
P.S. My psychic calendar sense tells me we have more gigs coming up, so stay tuned for details. |
OoC Retreat - Friday, February 3rd - Saturday, February 4th, Not Caltech
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Hi everybody, I'm updating the website from the OoC retreat, which is most definitely NOT at Caltech. It's fun. We'll be street singing in Old Pasadena later tonight. To those still in school, have fun with midterms, suckers. By the way, photos are up now from the retreat! |
Love Sucks IX Concert! - Saturday, February 25th, 3:00 pm, Avery Dining Hall
| If you're feeling dumped, duped, jerked around, ignored, or merely bitter like almost everyone else at Caltech, come join us at our 9th annual Love Sucks concert! We'll have a number of a cappella groups from the SoCal area joining us to celebrate all that is horrible and wrong about love. For more information, visit our events page! |
OoC 2006 Website is Here! - Friday, December 30th, 2:15 am
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Happy New Year Everybody!
The OoC website is undergoing renovation (read:being updated) in preparation for the new year! Here are some of the things in store for OoC 2006 Website: ~~~> Biographies for everyone, from everyone! ~~~> Pictures of your favorite group at events! ~~~> Alumni bios for all you old-timers! ~~~> New color scheme! Instead of white on blue, the new colors will be ivory on dark cerulean! ~~~> Actual updates of the main page! That's right, the calendar will no longer be stuck in a perpetual September! Yay! ~~~> More song clips! When we get a chance to record, that is... ~~~> More exclamation points, brought to you by the King of All Cosmos!!!!! The website staff (read:me and sometimes that other guy) will be working day and night to improve your viewing pleasure. Well, maybe whenever we have free time. But rest assured, we don't have enough new stickers to put on the website to show all the new content, so just assume it's all new. |
OoC Performing @ Decompression - Sunday, December 4th, 7:15 pm, Winnett Lounge
| Out of Context is planning to entertain the Caltech undergrad community with exciting new songs this Sunday, at Winnett, beginning 7:15 pm. You don't want to miss out on the first song - it's going to get Decompression started. |
OoC Performances! - Saturday, November 19th and Sunday, December 4th
| Out of Context will hold its first performances very soon! We're going to kick off with a sweet National Anthem for Caltech Men's basketball team. It's only the second game of the season, at home against Cal State-East Bay, 4:50 pm at Braun Athletic Center on campus. Iff you want to hear most excellent singing and maybe watch good basketball (fingers crossed on both), then I know when and where you'll be listening to OoC. |
| Also, we're performing at Decompression this term! This year Decompression will be held in Winnett from 6 to 8 pm, Sunday before Finals week. Yes, it's almost finals week. No, we haven't studied yet. (Are you crazy?) But that's only because we're working hard to polish our old and new songs until they shine. Come to Decompression, get your free burger on, and enjoy our awesome singing. |
OoC Fall Retreat - Friday, October 21st - Sunday, October 23rd
| We had a most excellent time at the OoC Fall Retreat at Chatsworth, CA. Much time was spent learning anew repertoire and getting to know each other, especially the new members. For more photos , samplings of new music, and bios about new members, stay tuned for updates. |
New OoC Members! New OoC Members!
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After a round of successful auditions, OoC would like to proudly welcome and spotlight its new members! These are the people you want to congradulate:
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Hookslide Concert! - Friday, May 13th, 2005
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OoC is proud to welcome Hookslide to the Caltech campus! Come to Ramo Auditorium this Friday to hear the incredible mix of hard rockin rhythms and smooth four-part harmonies of this San Francisco treat. The concert is free; not free as in "free speech" but more like "free beer". No, we're not giving out beer, it's a metaphor silly. Go read the FSF website if you're still confused. But don't read it on Friday night, because that's when you're going to the concert! For more information about this incredible group, visit http://www.hook-slide.com/. This event was made possible through the generosity of the Moore-Hufstedler Fund. |
Decompression Concert - February 28, 2005
| Stay tuned, because we're singing at decompression this term! The concert is tenatively scheduled for Saturday, March 12, but please check back here so we can confirm the |