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:: Sunday, March 25, 2007 ::

Impersonal Singular Gesture 5

Shawn Greenlee, Gusset, Bulimic Sideburns @ El Perro, Madrid, 15.03.07



Thanks to JC for sorting out the gig while I was over in Madrid. And thanks to everyone else for making me feel so welcome. Cheers, guys. Especially to Gabi. It's great to work with someone who takes the integration of visuals with the music so seriously. I know you wanted to prepare more and that my freeform, 'don't know what I'm going to play next' attitude to live sets doesn't help, but I think it worked out nicely. And also thanks to Roland. Sorry I couldn't make it to your radio show, that would have been great fun, but time and laptop problems did not permit.

Great music from everyone, all night. The DJ sets at the end were a breath of fresh air. Hearing medieval pieces mixed in with breakcore and booty is brilliant. A very open minded audience you have there, I wish it was like that everywhere. "Theremin boy" (I never found out his real name) was good too. As I discussed with Shewn, it's amazing how simple an instrument still holds so much fascination. Although you can argue the same about guitars or bongos or anything else. Within electronic music it has a unique place.

Shawn Greenlee's set was superb. He wanted to limit it to 40 minutes, joking that people can't take much more of it than that, but I would have gladly listened to more. (Thanks for the CD too btw.) His homebrew interfaces (the drawing tablet and the battered and hacked-up keypad) made for an inspiring visual performance. These were input devices anyone watching could understand and using the laptop purely as a display of the audio visual interaction between the controls and the music means he creates perfectly entwined abstract visuals at the same time. It's difficult to explain. Just look at the pictures and imaging the visuals projected on the ceiling are constantly evolving and changing with the aural onslaught.



Thanks again everyone!

Labels: Gigs, Gusset, Madrid

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