Last Saturday I went to an electroacoustic music concert at UMBC, part of a September-long, Baltimore-Washington electronic music festival under the Sonic Circuits imprimatur.
Can't say that I was terribly impressed. The first piece, which was a recorded collage of processed text and sounds, by Anna Rubin and Laurie Hollander was the best of the lot. The rest were generally too long and often self-indulgent. Perhaps the latter were that way because they were live and improvised. I've found that live improvisation can easily get long-winded.
I was rather tired, so I had trouble sustaining interest much of the time. It was hard to tell if the performances were moving in any direction. For the most part, they seemed rather static and just so much random noise.
Posted by raacluse at September 15, 2003 10:10 PM