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humans and technology
I went to see Anti-Pop Consortium last night.
(For those of you who don't know, Anti-Pop Consortium is a hip-hop / electronic improv band from New York, featuring veterans of both the Nuyorican Cafe poetry scene and Survival Research Labs. Their latest record, Arrythmyia, is out on WARP Records, "pioneers of weird electronic dance music.")
It was an amazing set. Philip Sherburne sums up the "live experience" quite well in last week's Needle Drops.
The only thing I'd want to add is a mention that Anti-Pop Consortium are now doing what all the best electronic musicians have done: they are imagining new ways that humans and technology can co-exist, not only peacefully, but fruitfully.
(Projected on the video screen behind their set were images of breakdancers, Marvel Comics characters, anime robot-girls, and wireframe animations of rotating skeletons and slithering machines. The same terrain seen from different viewpoints?)
Labels: music_commentary, technology |
Saturday, May 04, 2002
12:00 PM
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