He holds no byline in the paper. His record in this archive is the music programme of Day for Night across its three editions, on which the paper’s own 2016 lineup announcement, the held 2017 schedule grid and the staff record all place him as talent buyer alongside Omar Afra. The act lists below are the documented lineups as the collection carries them; nothing is added here, and no act is attributed to one buyer over another.
Staff record: Talent Buyer · Music Programming, 2015—2017. Talent buyer on the festival's music programme alongside Omar Afra and Dante DiPasquale across all three editions; named in the paper's 2016 lineup announcement, and the held 2017 schedule grid was circulated from his desk.
The held hype deck for the first edition names Kendrick Lamar, New Order, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Janelle Monáe and Dillon Francis and counts 43 bands across three stages; it carries no full bill. The roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase, which sets out the two festival days and two acts whose day was still pending. It is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
Day for Night 2015 official lineup poster. Black sheet with the cyan Day for Night circular mark; the SOUND list opens Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Philip Glass Ensemble, Dillon Francis, and the LIGHT list opens Casey Reas and Zach Lieberman. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Barbara Jordan Post Office, 401 Franklin Street, Houston
Documented bill · 48
Aphex Twin
ODESZA
Travis Scott
Kaskade
Björk
Run The Jewels
Nick Murphy
BANKS
Butthole Surfers
Blood Orange
Little Dragon
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Squarepusher
Blonde Redhead
Thundercat
Kamasi Washington
RZA
Stone Mecca
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
John Carpenter
Washed Out
Ariel Pink
Lightning Bolt
Arca
DJ Windows 98
Oneohtrix Point Never
Liars
Lower Dens
S U R V I V E
Matmos
Clams Casino
Mykki Blanco
Chelsea Wolfe
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Welcome to Houston
SG Lewis
SOPHIE
Tobacco
Nothing
Soulection
Mary Lattimore
Fat Tony
Wild Moccasins
Jerk
Kult Dizney
Division
Night Drive
From Beyond
Basis
Free Press Houston's own announcement, held in this archive, names Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Kaskade, Travis Scott, Butthole Surfers, John Carpenter, Marcel Khalife, Kamasi Washington, S U R V I V E and the Welcome To Houston bill, and states that the music lineup was curated by Omar Afra and Chris Wise. The held 2016 lineup poster carries the same headline order. The full roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase; it is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
Day for Night 2016 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet with the concentric teal circular mark, reading DEC 17–18, 2016, Houston, TX and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list opens Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Björk Digital, Kaskade, Travis Scott, and Nick Murphy, and the LIGHT list opens United Visual Artists, Björk Digital, Golan Levin, and Nonotak, beneath the Consequence of Sound quote "America's most exciting new festival". Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Barbara Jordan Post Office, 401 Franklin Street, Houston
Documented bill · 56
Kaytranada
Earl Sweatshirt
Solange
Jenny Hval
Boots
Saul Williams
Nine Inch Nails
Tyler, the Creator
James Blake
Pretty Lights
Jamie xx
Pussy Riot
Laurie Anderson
Cashmere Cat
Cardi B
Perfume Genius
GAS
Lil B
of Montreal
Venetian Snares
Daniel Lanois
Princess Nokia
Forest Swords
Roni Size
G Jones
Andy Stott
Jlin
Bjarki
Demdike Stare
Blackie
Tina (Hoodcelebrityy)
Faten Kanaan
Thom Yorke
Justice
St. Vincent
Phantogram
The Jesus Lizard
Nina Kraviz
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Rezz
En Vogue
Kimbra
Mount Kimbie
Corbin
Shlohmo
The Album Leaf
DJ Tennis
Tim Hecker
Babyfather
Shabazz Palaces
Jessy Lanza
Priests
Saro
Rabit
House Of Kenzo
Marcus Marr
Removed from the bill
Sky FerreiraNamed in the held Relix advertisement and in the surviving lineup records, but absent from the December 14 schedule grid. The final revision of the 2017 lineup poster was supplied on November 29, 2017 after she was removed from the bill.
Basis
Two held documents carry the 2017 music programme: the festival's own Relix full-page advertisement, which prints the SOUND lineup, and the internal schedule grid circulated on December 14, 2017, headed FINAL PENDING. The grid is the latest recovered iteration and not a settled programme, so the roster below is set out as the documented lineup across the three days, taken from the held documents and the surviving JamBase lineup record.
Day for Night 2017 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet set in red and white type with the split circular Day for Night mark, reading December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list is headed Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St. Vincent, Tyler, the Creator, James Blake, Pretty Lights, Jamie xx and Phantogram, and the LIGHT list opens Ryoji Ikeda, Matthew Schreiber, Conditional Studio + Processing Foundation and James Clar. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.Day for Night 2017 schedule grid, one page, circulated December 14, 2017. Columns are set by day — Friday Dec 15, Saturday Dec 16, Sunday Dec 17 — and by stage: RED 17k, GREEN 9k, BLUE 6k, YELLOW 2k, with a Friday Summit block running 4:00–7:00. The sheet is headed FINAL PENDING and carries a status key reading CONFIRMED / LIKELY / OFFER SENT / IDEAS, so it records the schedule as it stood on the eve of the festival rather than a settled final programme. Held original (PDF, one page)Relix full-page advertisement for Day for Night 2017, printing December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas, the SOUND and LIGHT lineups and www.DayForNight.io. Recovered from Free Press Houston correspondence dated October 18, 2017. Held original (PDF, one page)
Music programming staff, as the archive records them
Conceived the festival in 2014 with Kiffer Keegan; Free Press Houston's own 2016 lineup announcement states the music lineup was curated by Afra and Chris Wise.
Dante DiPasqualeTalent Buyer
Named to this archive as a talent buyer on the festival's music programme alongside Omar Afra and Chris Wise. No canonical person record is held; no outside source in the archive names the role.
The full production roster is on the festival staff record.
His own profile identifies Chris Wise, Chicago, Illinois, currently with Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Matched to the Houston talent buyer of the Day for Night years by the booking career the profile carries.
Lists Chris Wise as Director, Booking at MSG Entertainment, with Radio City Music Hall, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, the Beacon Theatre and Madison Square Garden among its venues. Industry directory, used as a citation only.
