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



 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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