[NewMusic] sfemf - penny highlights

[Phillip Greenlief]

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Subject: Re: [NewMusic] sfemf - penny highlights

MC's set was one of my favorites of the whole festival. My prediction
was that it might be the case. Something very different from expected,
but still exciting.

The Behrman/Lockwood/Winant evening was my favorite too, though a lot
of people made trips to the bathroom during the last song. (Which was
imagines/sounds of moving water.)

I actually liked the Univac set, and I'm usually not easily swayed by
circuit bending stuff.

PG:
MaryClare's set was the highlight of Thursday night for me. I'm going to
review it, so I won't say more here...

univac? That was pure wank IMO. I couldn't wait for that guy to stop
meandering around...I don't mind the over-abundance of sound-collage in
electronic music, as long as the sounds are great and there some regard
for form.

When I heard Kosugi Takehisa do his set at the Getty in LA a few months
ago as part of the Anti-Art from Japan exhibition, I was blown away by
how masterfully he organized his noise pieces. Sounds were emerging so
fast, they seemed super-human - like no one could possibly think that
fast...when sounds, random as they were, are coming at you at such speed
and funneled into a big collage, it more than worked, it was a total
masterpiece. Univac was the opposite: the sounds emerged like a rather
uncertain attack of diarrhea...there was no real shape to the flow of
sounds...for me anyway. The random aspect seemed uncertain, not
kaleidoscopic.