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signed by Buchla apprentice Pe-

ter Blasser.) The music was, for

the most part, more about atmo-

sphere than pulse. multiple layers

of sound were almost always in

play, spanning a continuum from

abrasive static to sine-wave clari-

ty. The arc evolved from inhar-

monic drones and swoops to a

stretch of rolling, arpeggiated

waves reminiscent of musical

minimalism, and then back

again. Te xtures hovered in slow-

swirling variation before shifting

to new ideas; the aural landscape

was dotted with gentle surprises

of weight and sonic depth.

The visual counterpoint was

more directional. Perkins, a vet-

eran of the avant-garde fluxus

movement of the 1960s, chan-

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ays in the manner of Neil Young
and Crazy Horse.
Lenker’s s ongs are emotionally
engaging but musically indirect.
Although the lyrics are well sup-
plied with rhymes, the melodies
proceed largely without catchy
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which frees the musicians to play
a different set every night. The
band included older songs and
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(and more recent) “Two Hands.”
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Big Thief’s

not just folk

hound, a Boston band that has

toured with Big Thief before and

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ble opener. Singer-guitarist Ellen

Kempner’s songs offered a mix of

intimacy and cacophony that was

similar to the headliner’s, al-

though the most powerful num-

ber was “Your Boyfriend’s Gun,”

the group’s stripped-to-the-bone

new single.

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Eyes” a nd the churning and insis-

tent “Not,” one of the show’s

highlights, which ended with a

twin-guitar rave-up. The former

album provided the lilting “Cat-

tails,” t he evening’s most melodi-

cally expansive number. It didn’t

come close to teen-pop, but it

does possess one of the few Big

Thief tunes that could inspire a

singalong.

The concert began with Pale-

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Big Thief guitarist and lead singer Adrianne Lenker p erforms a

sold-out show at the 9:3 0 club on sunday.

neled a dose of that energy.

Projecting slides through spin-

ning, c utout wheels, he g radually

shifted from abstract fields of

color and shape to an old-school

psychedelic anthology of occult,

religious and surreal imagery, all

in frantically flickering juxtapo-

sition.

Gordon promised a perfor-

mance of 45 to 80 minutes, but it

exceeded even that, extending

the negotiations around the con-

cert’s sketched outlines. The mu-

sic seemed to reach a destination

before the images; after some

circling, the sounds petered out

and Perkins’s projections fin-

ished alone. Planned or not, the

unbalance was befitting, punctu-

ating an evening that unsettled

and sometimes even assaulted

the senses. At the same time, the

whole experience was also

strangely calming. The sonic and

visual flux became itself a kind of

meditative focus: embracing the

analog, organic variability of

both sound and existence.

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BY MATTHEW GUERRIERI

one of the groovier manifesta-

tions of truly spontaneous musi-

cal creation is the Buchla music

Easel, introduced in 1973: a mod-

ular analog synthesizer, a loop-

ing sequencer and a touch-plate

keyboard. It was all shoehorned

into a suitcase — an on-the-go

vehicle by designer Don Buchla

to amplify circuitry’s potential

for serendipitous inspiration.

o n Sunday night at rhi-

zomeDC, Buchla’s brainchild

was at the center of a multime-

dia expression of that in-the-

moment ideal, with a perfor-

mance by the Eternal Now —

noise-scene stalwart marcia

Bassett, musician/scholar Te d

Gordon and visual artist Jeffrey

Perkins.

on the floor of rhizome’s hom-

ey space, Bassett and Gordon

each managed a music Easel,

wired into a network of control-

lers and filters. (Gordon’s array

also included a Tocante Thyris, a

small, touch-sensitive synth de-

mUsiC revieW

A serendipitous aural landscape

Eternal Now uses

analog Music Easels

and slides to enchant

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