“ We made our way to “The Happening”. Our directions were to find the big white cube parked somewhere around 11th and SE Morrison. Cube was parked outside a club. Unbelievable. 6 guys stuffed in a delivery truck converted to a traveling FBI band (no, seriously, all the electronic equipment in the back could have passed for surveillance ……. well, except for the 6 mini piano keyboards in front of each operator. In a more traditional setting - a club, a concert venue, a workshop/classroom, any stage, this would have been butt crack boring (think Merzbow). But the location, the open air, the warm night, the people spilling out of the club for a smoke break, the collective enthusiasm and wonder generated by all of us, the fairly innovative use of ambient noise and drum kit rhythms, seeing the equipment and the operators operating at such close range and getting a feel for the ensemble (I hate arena concerts…..which I term spectacles because there is nothing remotely music-magic about them) drove home the magic of Live Music, chamber style, updated with modern “instruments” and use of improvisation.
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