http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/09/23/bluebrain%e2%80%94and-you%e2%80%94to-perform-cakeblood-in-dupont-circle/ News and Criticism on D.C. and Beyond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:17:54 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/09/23/bluebrain%e2%80%94and-you%e2%80%94to-perform-cakeblood-in-dupont-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-33084 Video: Bluebrain And Its Boombox Orchestra - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:22:21 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/?p=10334#comment-33084 [...] That was certainly the case last Thursday night, when the area duo and about four dozen recruits performed the 36-minute work-for-30-odd-boomboxes while walking around the Dupont area. The music itself shuffled through a few movements and themes: At times it was ambient and aquatic-sounding, while other moments were minimalistic and percussive. My favorite passage was a chaotic assemblage of found sounds—exactly the “weird, electronic jungle” that Bluebrain member Hays Holladay told me to expect last week. [...] [...] That was certainly the case last Thursday night, when the area duo and about four dozen recruits performed the 36-minute work-for-30-odd-boomboxes while walking around the Dupont area. The music itself shuffled through a few movements and themes: At times it was ambient and aquatic-sounding, while other moments were minimalistic and percussive. My favorite passage was a chaotic assemblage of found sounds—exactly the “weird, electronic jungle” that Bluebrain member Hays Holladay told me to expect last week. [...]

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