At 12:08 PM 4/23/02 -0700, Brandon Smith wrote:
quoted 3 lines Obviously the music is what attracts me, but a great>Obviously the music is what attracts me, but a great
>side benefit is the absence of a direct message. This
>music is almost entirely subjective in every respect.
Agree! Last night, for example, as Freiband was playing his second piece,
someone who was there to try to understand, appreciate, learn more, hear
more of idmesque music commented that what was this supposed to mean....if
music was about feeling something, what was there to feel in this
particular work for example? I stood there for a bit longer,
listening...I was actually really enjoying this track a lot, and feeling
something...so I said to them that, yes, indeed I did feel something from
his music, and this particular thing...it brought back strong memories from
the time I was an Intensive Care Nurse and had to suction patients
breathing tubes all night, and this was remineicent of that sound, mixed
with the sound of the ventilators, etc...
Speaking of last night, it was good...nice size crowd at Tritone - a very
artist friendley enviornment (they had the Sun Ra Arkestra there
recently :) The event was on a Monday casue that was the only day all
these guys could be there.
Erin Anderson (she also goes by Fidget and is one half of Flowchart) opened
up Dj'g...perfect...she set the right mood for the night and had a nice
long set to really explore and create a picture...lots of mad, deep insane
carnival sounds with a healthy dose of My Bloody Valentine. She also played
between the live sets.
Howard Stelzer/Jason Talbot Duo were up first - crazy fun lovin guys with
lots of silly tricks up thier sleeves...playing with sounds created with
the 1200 and attching various devices and so forth...scratching, etc...1
guy in the audience got inspired to do a modern jazz acrobatic intrepretive
dance/ birthday tribute to his friend who he was with celebrating.
Freiband was fantastic. Serious, with his cardigan & cigar, he sat in front
of his laptop and pecked away, looking like he was writing the great
American novel as someone pointed out to me. I loved all his stuff, looking
around the room, it seemed everyone really was quite into it.
Goem was the Freiband guy and 2 others...all three lined up in front of
thier laptops. good work, lots of complicated layers and subtle
movements...best was the last track where a circling, cycling, ever growing
in intensity and volume, then suddenly vanished.
Thanks to the fine people from Zenapolae and Fuzzy Box :)
ok then,
Linda
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