I dragged JMD to a nonevent at MassArt tonite: The Fun Years (some MP3s there), Geoff Mullen, and Tim Hecker. It was excellent, and I’m extremely glad I mustered the willpower to get out of the house and actually do something. JMD reported that he was glad he went, and that when his eyes were closed he was actually just listening to the music (it was too loud to drift off to, anyway).
Some… “instruments”. Needless to say, no one was in any danger of breaking a sweat.
Local band The Fun Years. Bad name, great sounds – I bought their excellent home-made CD for five bucks, and it’ll be replacing Casino Vs. Japan as “the-only-music-in-my-car-for-the-next-six-months”. I also picked up Hecker’s My Love Is Rotten To The Core, an entire ablum made up of sounds plundered from Van Halen songs and interviews (the inside sleeve says “You only thing you have to lose is your hair.” LOL!).
Geoff Mullen was OK. He played something a little too discordant and full of fast, weird clicking for my taste, though.
Tim Hecker, er, playing the laptop. I was curious about how “live” music might differ from the stuff on CD, and it turned out to be really interesting to listen to (OK, so I’m not slick enough with the language to be a music reviewer). It seemed to be improvisational, built from the same sounds that he wove the more melodic pieces on Mirages (some MP3s there) from. The sounds were great, densely textured, and they just washed over you.
I really admire these guys who are so into what they’re into that they can produce so much cool stuff, so unlike most of the junk out there, whole little worlds. Damn.
