On 17/05/01 10:34, Julian So said in living color:
quoted 6 lines I saw Takemura open for Tortoise in Montreal earlier this week.> I saw Takemura open for Tortoise in Montreal earlier this week.
>
> Basically, Takemura and another Asian fellow hid behind their PowerBooks
> and "performed" for 45 minutes or so. Aside from mildly interesting
> visuals, the experience wasn't really different than just staying at home
> and listening to their recorded stuff.
"Mildly interesting visuals"? That's way too generous...
The visuals were very weak. Something like a very, very poor screensaver
(some objects floating around). Very bad "fluidity" (the animation was so
jittering you'd think they were running it on a 386...). Very little
variety. Very poor image quality. Heavily clipped projection (the image
spilled on both sides of the projection screen). IOW: don't go see this set
for the visuals. (If you want to see a show with fantastic visuals, make
sure to catch Ryoji Ikeda/Dumb Type if they ever show around your place.
Beautiful visuals of a chirurgical precision.)
The music? 'twas so-so, IMO. Not bad, but I think Takemura can do better
than that. The poor sound quality didn't help its case, too -- all the
pitched sounds seemed to lack an awful lot of definition. I wonder why the
sound was so much better for the Autechre show...
BTW, I've been disappointed by the record-store listen I spent on "Hoshi No
Koe". The glitch moments seemed less interesting than those on "Scope" and
the naïve melodic tracks seemed crappy compared to what can be found on
"Child and Magic".
Question for Takemura experts: considering that I like a lot "Child and
Magic" and "Scope" but didn't like "Funfair" or what I've heard of "Hoshi No
Koe", what are the chances I'd enjoy the Miyake albums?
g.
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