Simon, did you bother with any more of the Shorts stuff after those two Town Hall mini-gigs? You certainly weren’t missing much with the two Blending Shed things, if you skipped those. The Songs for VONK were interesting in places (if unwisely sequenced, starting with three slow-paced, largely undifferentiated songs placed successively), but the Claudia Molitor? Talk about vacuity masquerading as profundity – and the bit in the middle where everyone stopped playing and had an “impromptu” discussion of a J.G. Ballard story was the epitome of toe-curling…
Yes, i ended up going to Songs for VONK, which left me cold, and Molitor’s Decay, which left me absolutely apoplectic with rage. i’m still cross about it several days later. That fiasco pissed me off so much that i decided to go home and bring my day to an end early. Not sure whether i’ll write about it; maybe in some afterthoughts at the end of the season.
You and I don’t always agree, but it sounds like we’re on the same page with Decay. Good grief, it was irredeemably awful, and to think that it’s the first part a projected multi-part collaborative work! The supposed transformation of its so-called materials over the course of said project had better be pretty drastic if it’s to avoid being an utter waste of everyone’s time…
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Simon, did you bother with any more of the Shorts stuff after those two Town Hall mini-gigs? You certainly weren’t missing much with the two Blending Shed things, if you skipped those. The Songs for VONK were interesting in places (if unwisely sequenced, starting with three slow-paced, largely undifferentiated songs placed successively), but the Claudia Molitor? Talk about vacuity masquerading as profundity – and the bit in the middle where everyone stopped playing and had an “impromptu” discussion of a J.G. Ballard story was the epitome of toe-curling…
Yes, i ended up going to Songs for VONK, which left me cold, and Molitor’s Decay, which left me absolutely apoplectic with rage. i’m still cross about it several days later. That fiasco pissed me off so much that i decided to go home and bring my day to an end early. Not sure whether i’ll write about it; maybe in some afterthoughts at the end of the season.
You and I don’t always agree, but it sounds like we’re on the same page with Decay. Good grief, it was irredeemably awful, and to think that it’s the first part a projected multi-part collaborative work! The supposed transformation of its so-called materials over the course of said project had better be pretty drastic if it’s to avoid being an utter waste of everyone’s time…