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Selections from this night will be played on New Sounds Live (John Schaeffer's radio show) later this month, which is on WNYC or on the web.
Lee's piece was about 20 minutes long, and was really good- Started with Lee doing some solo work on his green jazzmaster (if I remember right) including violin bow, some sort of electronic recorder/blackberry thing, etc. then the band(Bang on a Can All-stars) joined in in a drony type of groove and in the last movement they jam out Sonic youth style almost, a maximum intensity noise jam, including the piano player vigorously playing the piano strings directly inside the piano box. I wonder how they will mix the radio show because I thought the piano and strings (cello) should have been louder, kind of got drowned out by guitar and drums, maybe they can adjust that in mixing, I don't know.
Weird part of the show was David Longstreth cancelled, which is ok, we knew about it since last week, but you'd think they would at least mention that or have some kind of explanation, but not a word, it's like that first press release never happened.
Should add- Lee gave a short interview with Schaeffer before the piece, talked about the background to the composition, the guitar tuning for this one and couple of other things.
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