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








It was a interesting night. Having seen Porter Ricks many many times, I can
say that it was a more crowd friendly set. Not his usual minimal dubbyness.
If anyone saw those two free shows PR did in Montreal a few years back,
you'll know what I mean. They were fucking incredible. Even Thomas K
thought so. 

Hats off to the Anchorage for doing it! Bring it on.

Praveer


















At 02:16 PM 30/06/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>  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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