Re: [microsound] mille plateaux at the anchorage last night in brooklyn

[Kurt Hoffman <supine@xxxxxxxx>]

>  it's such a huge, cavernous space that the
> sound really echoes and reverberates... that also lead to my problem
> with panacea and miguel's sets...

true. lotta bass murk especially. but they get the space to sound 
surprisingly good. the brinkmann set a couple weeks back worked well 
despite a fair amount of detail in his music.

kid 606 sounded great for awhile, especially while i stared at the 
sound-sensitive strobe display on the ceiling. but his noise 
prankster thing took to the fore and became to be a penance to 
submissively endure. when will it  end, etc.

it was pleasant to see the impersonal sounding snd attached to a 
couple of breathing, blinking personages. they successfully 
demonstrated the distinctive stamp of their project. by keeping their 
loud, clipped percussions asymmetrical and lacking in dynamic range, 
they successfully reference 'grooves' without  descending to that 
level of cliche or sanguine expression. I fell asleep in a corner on 
the floor.

porter ricks: one has a shaved head and sits impassively. the other 
has long hair and rocks back and forth with eagerness, twiddling 
knobs. played banging techno (who knew?) with climaxes every fifteen 
minutes or so. people danced, or somewhat danced, it was packed. 
eventually it all sounded the same and i wished there were some 
larger shape to their set, or more sonic surprises. but it worked, 
basically, their fuzzy sonarity thing merged with effusive dance 
rhythms.

had to leave before heckmann finished. was doing a dj set of techno. 
the floor had cleared enough that real dancing was possible. was fun. 
left before it was over. met director tsai ming liang (The River, The 
Hole, etc) outside in a friend's car. he politely said the evening 
was 'not bad'. which about sums it up.

> some beautiful art works in the space, too.. most impressive was the
> towering wall of blue + red LEDs.. 60 feet high, dizzying.. optically
> fabulous...

yeah, that thing is great.

k
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