.twine/fusaichi.review [4.21.01]

[friluftsliv <boonec@xxxxxxxxxx>]

twine (columbus half) played here at kenyon last saturday. excellent show.
small, nice-sounding room, with a decent crowd, though a mediocre pa
system. greg came on a few minutes after eleven and played to almost
midnight, ending with a sample of a voice warning us that the tape
needed to be flipped over. the content was sweet: intense, pulsing,
syncopated, machine screams, riding over thumping, irregular beats,
rising at times in crescendos of manipulated piercing tones, and chilling
out in slowly moving waves of faint static and subtle voices. this was a
green party benefit concert, and so i was at times convinced that i could
make out the distinctive timbre of nader's voice, though filled with entirely
non-human noises. the volume was much higher than that at which i
typically listen to twine, and it seemed like the music was of a more
intense nature than usual. twine's music seems to have matured a great
deal and grown much more sophisticated in the past couple of years,
which was nicely demonstrated by the cohesive and consistent quality of
saturday's show.

greg sat in the corner of the stage, huddled over his laptop, while most
people's focus was drawn to the video projections on the wall behind him.
it was a tape created by a friend of his (whose name i've completely
forgotten) --- and it was beautiful: flitting black and white looped
sequences, sometimes heavily distorted and abstracted, sometimes
fairly clear and (seemingly) unaltered. the visuals fit the audio quite well.
even though the tape was created separately, the music was often
perfectly in sync with the video.

daniel melo opened for twine, playing under the name fusaichi. also an
excellent show. the content of his set varied much more than that of
twine's. he made use of an electric guitar altered by a couple of effects
and some delays, some samples played back from dat and looped, an
old maxi-korg synth, also looped, a drum kit, and probably some other
stuff too. his basic method of playing was to slowly build up texture and
rhythm using his various tools, switching back and forth as needed,
resulting in slowly moving sonic patterns that gradually shifted and
changed. though the mood he created varied dramatically depending on
what instruments he was emphasizing, the overall feel was very
consistent and fluid.

anyway, a great show.

takeiteasy

..chris