On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, alex_tea wrote:
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> anyone go to futuresonic<00>??
>
> any thoughts? personally i thought it was a complete smables, there were
> some good points, but basically it was badly organised and quite spastic, in
> a bad sense,.
>
I went on the Friday evening, primarily to see Scion/Tikiman and
Merzbow.
Scion were wonderful, just as good as I'd hoped. One remarkable thing
is that neither of them nodded their head once, in contrast to the
normal practise of your laptop-y types.
When Tikiman appeared, one of Scion played some vinyl, using the second
disc for dub effects, and the other operated more effects (I think).
Whilst an eager consumer of BC/CR products, I'd been wary of Rhythm &
Sound etc. but that will change now.
As for Merzbow, I only have a few samples of his prolific output, but
was very keen to see him. Of course he just sat at his laptop but you
could see him getting into it, with mousepad heroics. The weird thing
was that it all became somehow soothing after a while, in spite of the
objectively harsh quality of the sounds.
Re. organisation - yes it seems to have been a mess but the things I
wanted to see worked.
Before Scion started I "experienced" some of the Fat Cat-organised
people in the foyer, with their noise turntable antics etc.
Hmm.
Adam
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