CR4 Tours EMPAC (Part 3)

On the page of pictures - especially the ones from the Madlib show - you get a great view of what it looked like in there, but what you can't tell is how crazy it is that the room is on springs. Since the show took place before I knew that the rooms were on springs, I didn't know why the bottom of my feet hurt when I got home. It was because Madlib played a very good, loud set that literally shook the floor.

Hi Sharkles,

Apologies - Got my bands mixed-up and need to correct myself after checking out Madlib's MySpace page:

I'm pretty sure the Madlib music group you experienced at EMPAC is a Los Angeles-based Hip-Hop/Funk/Soul band (great music from what I heard there just now!), and not an experimental classical band.

I believe the band I was thinking about, whose pictures and musical-focus reminded me of Greenaway-partner Michael Nyman, was likely a Canadian modern-classical group of performers called "Arraymusic", or a grouping of modern-music performers from the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Hopefully someone with an inside-scoop from EMPAC in Troy might catch this blog and comment.

- Larry

One more note: Another experimental band (South Asian Chamber Music genre from their web site) that performed at EMPAC on October 18th, 2008 was "Gamelan Galak Tika" - click here for web site. On Gamelan's web, they quote Michael Nyman as one of their contributing composers, and so I may have found the link I was looking for. - Larry