Third Life Studio, Union Square, Somerville MA
The most articulate term I’ve learned for the art of experiencing music is used by Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening. It’s difficult to do at most music venues. Fortunately the alternatives to clubs, bars, and meat markets abound, and in a burg like Boston there’s plenty long beards looking for aural enlightenment. Third Life Studio has been hosting Opensound for a few years now – as a shared space, it’s impersonal but not distracting. You go, you sit, you Listen. You sound.
duo: Ellen Band, field recordings, laptop; Jeremy Flower
Grau Garten: Marc Bisson: guitar, objects; Dei Xhrist: voice, electronics; Greg Kowalski: live video; Steve Norton: reeds, percussion, celesta, electronics
Andrew Neumann, electronics
BOLT: Jorrit Dykstra – sax, electronics; Eric Hofbauer – guitar; Junko Fujiwara – cello; Eric Rosenthal – drums, etc.
Video by Rat Bas