We started the night with the Savage Thearter company performing a reading of the play "Savage in limbo". They were very well rehearsed and it was agood performance, there were laughs and intense moments, i love the theater vibe. A great way to start the show,.
Next up was The Fiction Circus. They are a group of short story writers who perform with crazy background music. They were very good as well, the only problem was that when they went on there was a lack of focus in the room, I think people were still feeling that after performance glow that the theater often provideds. Justin from the fiction Circus adapted brilliantly by silently mouthing and performing his story, that got a nice reaction as he rolled around on the floor animating the story he was reading to himself. John was up next, he asked for everyone to for a semi circle around and he told a delightful about a girl and a skeleton, great story. I feel that if Clutter had performed after the Savage Theater company, it would have made a nice sonic backdrop and tension relieving vibe so the room could properly come down from the intense focus of the reading. After Clutter , there would be a new need for some more intense focus a la The Fiction Circus and they would have gotten the proper attention, or so i think. Either way it was great to have them, I love what they do and I hope they come back.....
Next Chris D played his I say Fuck(myspace/sayfuckoutloud) set, which was mesmerizingly beautiful, ambient hypnotic, dynamic, just awesome. The owner of the bar told me during his set that it was "too experimental" and that the regular folk off of the street were scared of it. I told her that music like I Say Fuck is why I'm doing this night in the first place and that I needed to give him his time...a few people in the bar reacted in a very negative ignorant manner by playing pool really loudly and banging their sticks on the ground as a protest or something inane like that, most of the other people seemed blissfully mesmerized by the sound, i know i was. these two opposite reactions really made me feel that something special was happening although i was a bit thrown off by the negative reaction, too experimental for freakin williamsburg!
Clutter went on next, it was a good set, i was a bit down from what happened.
Next week Declan Zimmerman is performing (declanzimmerman.com)
Thank you to all who participated and supported last night......
Brett
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