this was a strange event, I think it was some sort of school project. Housei University was where fushitsusha played annual 7 hour or longer concerts usually around new year, until a few years ago. Apparently the hall they played at is being refurbished, and some students got some other place on the campus, and arranged some events, including this "enjoyable music festival" which started about half 4 and went on till half 10ish.
- I suppose it is normal here for universities to have convenience stores in them and escalators and things like that, sort of swish-bank/airport like.
ICHI - came on in stilts playing a harmonica. Did a set of mainly folk-tronic type stuff with accompanying glitch but all on acoustic and analogue instruments for some reasons. Occasionally charming.
MAS - "electronic jazz", and almost as bad as that sounded. Mio said it reminded her of "the corrs". I do not know where she has been finding the time to see or listen to "the corrs", but I am deeply angered like a beast awakened.
Ryusenkei-Body - a drummer and a computer person with additional "korg", wearing base ball caps and resembling the hyper one in "a-team", with a forlorn rotund faced bassist. The way rotund people who aren't into "biking" are forlorn. It breaks your heart. The music was glitch strewn and shattered like aphex cut-up 7 times with about 5 seconds of cohesion every 10 minutes and it was dead good.
aminome - mio says "aminome makes you think about death . . . the void . . . and stuff . . . my grandmother's bones (she had a tube directly to her intestines, so her bones lost their form in the furnace" (i.e. not "the corrs") I thought they were pretty good also.
TETRAGRAMMATON - this band had bought out the only other gaijin seen for the evening, because one of his country fellows was playing guitar. "I've been to India, I bring back these drones". The best dronesque things, the ones you take to meet your parents or to tour the place where they are buried, are self referential to the point of autism, like the whole world of all musics is occluded. sacred thingy name for god thingy can't do anything without referring to some tune or world music genre or something so they fail in my infallible factual opinion.
hose - a joke by retired art students. How we laughed.
Haino Keiji - had a special table that needed man-and-woman handling onto the stage by the vast throng of student helpers. It held his air theremins and drum machines. They made a bigger noise than everything else. It was dead good.
Then we played with some cats by the river before going to the future that has already been revealed.
- so that's september all done in and over almost
don't be shy.
ReplyDeletehere are some things that could be talked about via the comment boxes of silent web machines :
universities and convenience stores
how an audience is created for things that may be "avant garde" scarequote
what about the little picture
- and this is just after 17 seconds ofthought by a human. imagine what an ibm could do
I like the links. "cohesion every ten minutes" amused.
ReplyDeleteWould have been interesting to go to. What was the hose joke? The site just had a fed up looking older man in some kind of figure hugging bob-sleigh uniform. Electronic jazz does indeed sound awful. I saw Manu Chao last week - he was great. I imagine I would have liked Ryusenkei-Body, maybe, depending on how great the lack of cohesion was. And Heino, obviously. Does he get around a lot over there then?
How big does a universoty have to be to need escalators? Stores I have seen. My uni had elevators.
hello. I thought the universe had contracted recently.
ReplyDeletethe hose people, they just had this arch atmosphere, playing from scores little extracts from soft-jazz stuff, and then the bassist guy would just play whatever he wanted as it want on, and sometimes shouted a bit. It was basically a joke, that is what I thought. The audience sometimes laughed when the bassist guy said something. I was annoyed because it was right before keiji haino, and I could have got a beer from the convenience store and enjoyed the balmy evening for half an hour ((drinking was strictly forbidden inside, because of the university nature of the place))
I had never seen a university with escalators (i mean the moving stairs, christ I dont know their proper name or do i?)
we could go see haino keiji five or six times a month if not for the restrictions of the capitalist monolith