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« on: August 14, 2008, 12:36:00 PM »
This could be awesome.
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Wordless Music: 800 Years of Minimalism - The Spiritual Transcendent
Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 PM
Lincoln Center Out of Doors @ Damrosch Park Bandshel
7:00 Beata Viscera (Debut): The Music of P?rotin (fl. c. 1200)
7:30 Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (Outdoor Version World Premiere)
9:00 Manuel G?ttsching: E2-E4 (12.12.1981) (U.S. Premiere), with the Joshua Light Show (World Premiere collaboration)
There are no tickets or advance registration. The seated capacity is about 4,000, including standing room up to 12,000. So don't be too late !
Joshua White is a New York-based multimedia artist, well known for his collaboration with artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin, among many others.
Wordless Music (?There is no more inventive music series in New York.? - Alex Ross, The New Yorker) is devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music?in genres such as indie rock and electronica?have more in common than conventional thinking might suggest. To illustrate the continuity between these worlds, the series pairs rock and electronic musicians in an intimate concert setting with with more traditionally understood classical music performers.
MORE at www. ashra. com
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Gottsching was the guitarist in Ash Ra Tempel (whose first album is an all-time brain-ripper of psych damage; later elpees are good too, one w/ Timothy Leary).
Rhys Chatham is the Dr. Jekyll to Glenn Branca's Mr. Hyde. While that is a horrible analogy, Chatham has done just as great works with the idea of massed electric guitars. He's not as sturm und drang and his stuff has a lighter touch ('Die Donnergotter' is almost Krautrock-ian while my favorite piece by him("Waterloo no.2") is just drums and trumpets. This piece is supposed to have 200 guitars.
THIS SHIT IS FREE & OUTSIDE
Dunno why I just wrote all that, but I just saw this and am pretty fuckin stoked. I highly boubt 16000 people (prb. more like 2000) will show up, so there should be plenty of seating and space.
It's on W. 62nd and Amsterdam. Also, this is where Th Ex show is next week.
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