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From the NY Times:
We were in a Brooklyn basement full of artists and sound-poets gathered to watch musicians throw down extreme noise improvisation. One performer played records with two customized tone arms on his turntable; the discs broke and scratched, creating shards of hyperfractured beat play. He was followed by a quartet of young women scraping metal files across amplified coils mixed through junk electronics. I was to perform a spontaneous guitar/amp feedback piece with a stand-up bass player on loan from his teaching post at Berklee College of Music and a free jazz percussionist who had traversed through New York's downtown underground in the 60's. Not your typical night of alternative rock.
I like weird. I like avant-garde. "Scraping metal files across amplified coils..." that doesn't sound like the result is going to lean towards music (other than the fact that it will presumably play something in the frequency range that can generally be considered notes).
Sometimes, a boring old 1-4-5 is good enough, you know?
Posted by Casper at April 8, 2004 05:40 PM