Thursday, August 5, 2010

the Dark Sounds of Andrew Bird...

...I'm very pleased to announce that I and a great friend from my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin have managed to score tickets to the sold out concert series / exhibition "Dark Sounds" being put on at the Guggenheim...

...apparently the exhibit is a three part live concert performance given as compliment to the musuem's current exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Film/Video.Performance which by itself looks to be an interesting venture into the meaning of the captured image and how the human psyche relates to these pictographic and sonal frameworks. The word du jour here is Melancholy, Ghostliness, and the Uncanny...

...and who better to represent such a sound than the uncannily mesmerizing Andrew Bird, whose music I and my friend have a severe addiction to...and whats more!!! his installation piece will be a collaborative "sculptural landscape" piece with Chicago based luthier Ian Schneller for what the Guggenheim is calling "Sonic Arboretum, a site-specific performance involving violin, looped passages, and a landscape of speaker horns." Needless to say, I and my friend are going to be ecstatic at the opening. Apparently there's also a private showing for ticket holders at eight, followed by the performance at 10pm.

...If you're not familiar with Andrew Bird then you're truly missing out. A Chicagoland native, he's both a multi-instumentalist and lyricist (though I'd wager more a poet) but also a damned good whistler, which he often manages to weave through his music. His sound is...truly uncanny at best, a mixture of as the guggenheim describes it..."experimental forays into pop music which incorporate elements of gypsy jazz, classical, folk, and country blues traditions."

...And! Did you know? The Guggenheim puts on "Art After Dark" a social gathering of food, music, and a chance to mingle with artists, socialistas, oh yeah and theres some art hanging on the walls as well, but nobody seems to go for that. Its that rare New York moment when both Uptown and Downtown crowds co-exist and tear it up on the rotunda floor...

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