Re: [microsound] Elektra - Ikeda, Dolden

["yatra@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <yatra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

my sentiments exactly...I went for both nights (from Toronto) and the
Ikeda/Dumb Type experience was incredible! If you liked the Raster set at
Mutek last June, this would have made you cream your jeans! High art!

Best,

Praveer B











At 11:21 AM 9/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I went to yesterday's Elektra night (Elektra being yet another electronic
>music festival in Montreal) featuring a new piece by Paul Dolden (who has a
>release on empreintes DIGITALes called "L'ivresse de la vitesse") and a
>Ryoji Ikeda - Dumb Type presentation.
>
>I was facing an unnerving dilemma yesterday: Ikeda's show was presented on
>Friday and Saturday with different artists preceding them on each night
>(Dolden yesterday and the first real inauguration of the "Silophone", a
>grain silo transformed into a musical instrument).
>
>Unfortunately, I think I've made the wrong decision... The piece is in a
>similar style to his other stuff, using a superposition of numerous tracks
>of acoustic and electric instruments. I kinda liked his release on
>empreintes DIGITALes (though it's not among my favorites on the label), so I
>had good hopes about the piece. However, I was really disappointed by it. It
>seemed to me to be much poorer in texture richness than the pieces on
>"L'ivresse de la vitesse". The whole thing seemed more "tune-oriented" than
>his earlier effort -- not a bad thing in itself, but IMO, it didn't work out
>at all, the whole thing amounting to a mere patch of disjointed segments.
>
>
>Ikeda and his associates saved the night for me. This was a fantastic
>performance I wished would have lasted longer. The music played included
>"Headphonics" and other stuff in a similar style. I was already familiar
>with that music but hearing it on a top quality sound system made the
>experience a truly physical one. And I was thoroughly impressed by the
>visual "accompaniment". Among the best executed visual presentations I've
>seen for electronic music performances. Very pure, not unlike Ikeda's own
>music.
>
>
>All in all, a very good festival (I was also there for Granular Synthesis'
>new assault, "Areal" -- which I liked better than "POL", that was presented
>last year -- as well as a good night of "acousmatic" electroacoustic music
>-- in particular, I enjoyed quite a lot Ned Bouhalassa's mix of Amen beat
>wizardry [he does it really well!] with more traditional acousmatic
>stylings.). 
>
>g.
>
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