Thursday, May 04, 2006
Hardcore - You probably don't know THIS score
Interesting event at St. Matthew's tonight.
We had an evening of classic Happy Hardcore tunes transcribed and played on the church organ, courtesy of the ICA.
I don't know how else to describe it, but that's what happened.
Ian became wistful for a more innocent (but more technicoloured) age, Radio One came, saw, and interviewed, James nodded and smiled in all the right places, the St. Matthew's organist covered his ears, and Gareth waved his glow-stick and blew his whistle (alright, I made that last bit up).
The event was curated by a guy called Matt Stokes, who's just won the Beck's
Futures prize. I'm still trying to get my head round Hardcore tunes played on an organ which was probably not what it was intended for, but sounded recognisable, and was strangely affecting. If you're interested, there'll be an evening of Black Metal transcribed for the organ on the other side of London next week.
Interesting things going on with the layout of blogger.com on this post, too. Aciiiiiiiiiid!
