The sound series opened with simulacra, a duo that mysteriously snuck in and out of their beautiful short set without audio or visual documentation. Some groups escaped visual documentation by playing in complete darkness, iXi and Tussle primarily, but neither of those groups are as attractive as Simulacra, oh well, they’re performance will remain in the memories of those who had the chance to see them, if no where else. Sean Horchy then played his art music acoustic electric custom frequency modulator for a while before turning it over to the audience to experiment with. No one can play it as well as he can, but he really likes to share the experience with others, for which I commend him. Ship engaged the space next, starting their performance up top in the 7th heaven loft to then jump to the ground and continue from the ground. Frank and David are dear to me and the incarnation of the project. Seeing the intimacy of their performances is one of the few experiences that lead to the development of this project. They brought a more feisty performance then I had ever seen from them, jumping from 10 feet in the air, bells on their toes, swinging, jumping, kicking, and dancing their way through an awesome, often upbeat set. The rad photo of Frank and David counting down was taken by Triplebase artist, Michelle Blade). I only met her on this day, but her paintings are amazing and she does some rad social art too. I had talked to Lucky Dragons (myspace) about playing only through inter-wave communications. So when the sound series began and I hadn’t heard from the LA based group I started to think they would be a no-show. I should have never doubted they’re glorious ways, as they were spotted by frank rolling around the mission right on time… although a time was never discussed… far out! Pumpkins closed the first sound series with their blend of west-african/space/trance. These boys, Chris Cox and Gabe Turow are members of Baba Ken and the Afro-Groove Connexion, an afrobeat band based in the east bay. This set was a nice transition into the darkness of the evening.

12:00 am  •  21 October 2007  •  1 note