Re: [microsound] hrvatski & haco

[yatra arts <yatra-arts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haco in Toronto was very nice...no Reccomended Records crowd though.

Praveer
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: david turgeon 
  To: microsound 
  Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 6:12 PM
  Subject: [microsound] hrvatski & haco


  the other night was kind of busy.  at the casa del popolo there was a trio 
  of haco, martin tétreault & diane labrosse.  of course i didn't want to 
  miss that so i stayed for the whole gig.  it was pretty diverse, starting 
  with a duo of martin & diane (turntable & sampler, what else) which was 
  what you would expect from these expert operators.  haco started by doing 
  this really strange song with unmelodic sinewaves (her singing however was 
  extremely melodic) to follow with a hoahio (her ex(?) band with sachiko m) 
  song she performed on electric guitar (there was a drum sound every so 
  often too, coming from somewhere).  following this disconcerting debut, the 
  remainder of the show usually involved all three performers.  haco did some 
  really wild things with the objects she used: she used a small pot (in some 
  way unfathomable to me) to create feedback, with varying degrees as she 
  would bring the lid to the pot.  it was humorous & poetic.  the second set 
  was much more ambient, not much vocals there, mostly minimalist 
  ambience.  i might have liked the first half better but that was great too.

  across the street at the sala rossa, there was hrvatski playing.  i missed 
  mitchell akiyama & greg davis (a friend told me they were both very good) 
  but i arrived just in time for mr. whitman.  he started his set by asking 
  what kind of stuff people wanted to hear, most people responding they 
  wanted breaks, so i said "academic!" just to cut through the consensus & 
  elicit cheap laughter.  at any rate, the set was both breaks & intense 
  electroacoustic maneuvres which would not feel out of place in erm, a 
  university for instance (well, he's from cambridge, maybe that rubbed off 
  on him.)  needless to say it was amazing, every second of it.  now, all i 
  had heard from hrvatski was _oiseaux 96-98_ which if you recall is quite in 
  the drum n bass area of things.  his set, although only sometimes sounding 
  like drum n bass, had all the qualities of this album: it can turn on a 
  dime at anytime; the sound is pristine.  in fact, it showed a stark upwards 
  evolution in keith's work.  utter complexity & extreme skill is how i would 
  put it.

  & shall i add that neither show had very much audience in it.  wherefore 
  art thou, montréal music afficionados?  (y'all better come to the no type 
  launch at the casa in 2 hours!@)  oh well, so just to say.  2 great, 
  satisfying shows for anyone who likes their electronic sound with a certain 
  amount of bite.

  have a nice day
  ~ david


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