Hi everyone,
This is my review of the Nobukazu show for Objection to Procedure, does
anyone know the name of the woman that Nobukazu performed with? I'd prefer
her name to the "???" that I have right now ;)
Nobukazu Takemura
Jim O'Rourke
KO
November 14th
Troubadour
The night began with a DJ set by KO from I.Q.U subtly detonating the
atmosphere with some lovely ambience that sorted itself eventually into
noizish breaks. These smatterings of interference masqueraded as daneable
beats and kept the heads nodding even as the foreground and the background of
the music kept reliably changing. The set was accompanied by a film loop of
an old battleship unfurling its sails as well as a farmer smiling in a grain
field. Unfortunately, the visuals seemed rushed and alien from the music,
which approached insane drum and bass at some points.
Jim O'Rourke was up next, displaying a dichotomy of folk and noize.
Unfortunately, O'Rourke chose not to integrate the two sounds, and left both
styles naked and solitary. The noize portions were excellent, with
intricacies and thrumming space echos. However, I truly did not enjoy the
folk portions. As the set dragged on with persistent depression, I felt like
a 1950 era conservative frowning upon John Cage noise segment. Is this a new
direction in music? Has Jim O'Rourke objected beyond the objectors?
Perhaps....
Following O'Rourke were Nobukazu Takemura and ???. Sticking mainly to
his Thrilljockey releases, Scope and Meteor, Nobukazu created an comfortably
warm hectic ambience that pulled the listener into an amazing head-nodding
state. The accompanying insane film loop consisted of bird nest footage
melted into red, then white percussive epilepsy. As the organs and other
melodic instruments bleated in the background, Meteor was distinctly heard,
though with much more distortion and clicky absences of sounds. Though the
foreground of the music was constantly shifting and keeping the listener
enthralled, the backgrounds were laboriously changing as well, and only at
the end of the set did I notice how different the grounding of the music was
from how it started. Takemura and ??? left us with a humble bow and an
exit stage right, leaving a beautiful imprint upon the minds of his
spectators.
---The Objector has spoken.---
"The goal of any writer is to acknowledge the numeric, programmed basis of
his mind, and then supercede it. First one must explore the agonizing limits
of patterns, their octahedral vultures and box-shaped emotions. After
patterns are mastered, we seep into the mist of the patternless, passing
through the thickest and thinnest of atmospheres. At each stage, patterns
and non-patterns are grafted atop and within the gray matter of one's mind.
At the nova point of summation the scar heals, erupts and bleeding anarchy
blossoms like a larval butterfly."
-The Objector October 6, 1999
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