Einstürzende Neubauten
6 Apr 2005 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdWow, what a gig. Absolutely fantastic!
Got there about 18:15, to find![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
necro_angel and raggedy_man waiting at the front of the queue. Doors opened a bit after seven but it was quite empty for a long time so we squatted in the first row. It wasn't sold out which was quite surprising but this also meant standing at the very front was very comfortable. I could see pretty well, although the ideal position to see what exactly the percussionists were doing would have been from the balcony. As I was standing in front of the guitar monitor, I had a bit too much guitar but still heard enough of the rest to enjoy it. The only regular instruments were a guitar and a bass, although even those were often played in unusual ways (e.g. agitating the strings with a vibrator, yes, that kind of vibrator). The replacement of the drum set first consisted of a metal box instead of the base drum (which was later replaced by an actual one) and various contraptions made of (scrap) metal and a hi-hat.
The other percussionist used anything he could get his hands on, bits of solid metal, bricks, piping, purpose-built implements and power tools, a shopping trolley and whatnot.
Blixa Bargeld's screaming and screeching was another amazing feature, as was his use of a radio and a pressurized air hose to make sounds. A lot of things other acts would produce with synthesizers, Neubauten create with actual objects.
All the musicians work so well together and are so good at what they're doing individually that what should be some sort of cacophony ends being absolutely fantastic, engaging, sometime psychedelic, sometimes grooving, sometimes ambient, music.
Other people run into includedcasilda, surje and the usual suspect, jonny_eol.
Got there about 18:15, to find
necro_angel and raggedy_man waiting at the front of the queue. Doors opened a bit after seven but it was quite empty for a long time so we squatted in the first row. It wasn't sold out which was quite surprising but this also meant standing at the very front was very comfortable. I could see pretty well, although the ideal position to see what exactly the percussionists were doing would have been from the balcony. As I was standing in front of the guitar monitor, I had a bit too much guitar but still heard enough of the rest to enjoy it. The only regular instruments were a guitar and a bass, although even those were often played in unusual ways (e.g. agitating the strings with a vibrator, yes, that kind of vibrator). The replacement of the drum set first consisted of a metal box instead of the base drum (which was later replaced by an actual one) and various contraptions made of (scrap) metal and a hi-hat.The other percussionist used anything he could get his hands on, bits of solid metal, bricks, piping, purpose-built implements and power tools, a shopping trolley and whatnot.
Blixa Bargeld's screaming and screeching was another amazing feature, as was his use of a radio and a pressurized air hose to make sounds. A lot of things other acts would produce with synthesizers, Neubauten create with actual objects.
All the musicians work so well together and are so good at what they're doing individually that what should be some sort of cacophony ends being absolutely fantastic, engaging, sometime psychedelic, sometimes grooving, sometimes ambient, music.
Other people run into included
casilda, surje and the usual suspect, jonny_eol.
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Date: 6/4/05 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6/4/05 10:28 am (UTC)I know, he used one of those, too. I've seen them before (sort of roughly T-shaped, with a curved knobbly bit you point at the strings).
For one bit, he used an actual, silver-plated sex toy, I guess because he could change the frequency/intensity of the vibrations.