2007 EMM Festival in Kansas City March 18th, 2008
Concert 8
Arthur Gottschalk, Cello: Fishing at Antibes, with Taylor Richardson, cello
Hunter S. Long, One Blends Softly…
Schuyler Tsuda, Parasites, with Schuyler Tsuda, laptop
Angela Veomett, Eve Song, with Jessica Petrus, soprano
Kadet Kuhne, Infinite Delay
Cello: Fishing at Antibes offered long, sweet cello lines to an electronic wash, then the paradoxically named One Blends Softly… gave us an ear cleansing razor buzz, some scratching, a thundery bass, and lots of hard, bright metallic sounds. Parasites, after some squiggly little insect sounds over a dark, rich, low frequency, settled into very saturated sounds, very noisy and high energy and all over all the speakers. Eve’s Song gave us a really good soprano, a really pretty snake in the video, and very lush sounds, then Infinite Delay plunged us—in both the video and the music—into a pool, where a straitjacketed person struggled infinitely past what one breath could hold, courtesy of looping.
