14 November 2009
The most artistically fashionable assembly I have been at in a good while, quite different to a muso crowd, were able to join in with rattling shaking squeezing and generally mucking about with Lucky Dragons' lucky dip method of performance, which involves passing interactive musical tools to the crowd for experimentation to combine with artist-controlled electronic fiddlings; lo-5's between adjacent folk turn out to be musical contributions rather than dubious greetings. Swelling and pulsing rhythms build up, with plenty of reverb to paper over the cracks, often sounding similar to Julianna Barwick's layered compositions for a while, then moving on to some new improvised territory. Unlike last time I saw him perform, there was also a nameless vocalist (yes, I accept she probably does have an actual name but it was not made known to we mortals EDIT: Sarah Rara would be the singer, thanks for that!) adding wordless chants to the mix, which worked well, and a pair of screens showing visuals of, alternately, aloe plants or hillside villages wobbled in and out of focus for added ambient wooziness.
2 comments:
the vocalists name is sarah rara, shes a regular lucky dragons member i believe!
Oh thanks for that. Maybe there wasn't the budget to bring her over for the Scala/Dirty Projectors show in April?
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