Green Sound
An amazing summer evening in the Marin headlands courtesy of the good folks at Project Soundwave/ME'DI.ATE.
The venue was Battery Townsley, an abandoned military installation now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The duo of Jacob Felix Heule (drums) and Kanoko Nishi (koto) started things out with a focused, deliberate "pre-show" performance. From their instruments, they coaxed gentle, primal resonances in dialogue with the wind and the sun. Meanwhile, Gregg Kowalsky had been setting up a cache of tape recorders and mysterious analog devices in the gunwell. Now, in this dark, cavernous space, he built up, slowly, but surely, a mass of dense, echoing, resonant noise.
After a short break, Heule and Nishi returned, this time getting into a tense cacophony their earlier set had only hinted at. At this point, the sun was starting to go down, the fog was rolling in, and it was getting downright chilly. Enter Danny Paul Grody, deploying guitar, voice, and an array of battery-powered delay pedals to deliver a warm, soothing, gently propulsive set that served as a perfect coda. It appeared that the birds enjoyed it as well.
Last, but not least, hot chocolate!
Kanoko Nishi
Jacob Felix Heule
Pedals in the golden light
Danny Paul Grody
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Posted at 23:29 on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 in category music | Comments (0)
