Maryanne Amacher yesterday

[Brian J. Parker]

Damn, I better go get a new subwoofer.

On 3/29/06, manny at telerama.com <manny at telerama.com> wrote:
>
> Well.
>
> I went to see Maryanne Amacher yesterday evening [lecture was free
> at McConomy Auditorium, CMU from 5 to 7 pm]. First she explained the details
> of a work she was installing in caves below Teotihuacan in Mexico.
>
> Then she played one of her pieces for the last 20 minutes of the lecture,
> through six speakers, mixing it live. People were invited to get up and walk
> through the auditorium. I parked myself in front of one of the subs. The
> massive wall of dark dense drone was unbelievably loud. After a while you could
> hear the overtones inside your skull. Wicked. That is experimental music. That
> is industrial music. That is dark music. You haven't experienced it yet until
> you have immersed yourself in something like the crushing volume of this
> woman's masterworks. The only things it is comparable to are Glenn Branca
> (except done with electronic sources) and Phill Niblock. Maybe also
> Hafler Trio, or Pan Sonic minus the beats. Anyway it was really good.
>
> -MT
>
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