Screaming MeMe's
by JudithMusic on 3/4/13Royce Hall - UCLA - Los AngelesI liked it, but not for reasons you'd normally think. The sound was, well, the sound of panic and utter confusion. But I believe that's about the state of the world right now. It was refreshing to me to be tuned in to the way life is NOW. I just sang Faure's Requiem, and it's a gorgeous work. But to hear something that is going on now was revitalizing, revivifying. It zapped me. I used to live with a guy who built his own instrument and was into microtonal music. I felt like some of the rifts and the style I'd heard before, but it was done very, very well and expressed the rhythms exactly. Well, I don't know it you would call them rhythms. It seemed to me that each guy was up there for himself and played chunks of sounds. There was no melody, no rhythm no interrelationship in parts. When the guy came out with the double-necked guitar, I was on the edge of my seat. I'd read about them but never seen one. I was breathless waiting for him to play the second neck. I was not disappointed. He made such a huge variety of noises, from sitar to heavy metal and back, and the sound was so loud, it was like a tank. If he played that thing walking into a dangerous situation, I know everyone would scramble. This music was cutting edge, experimental, and I congratulate them. My only complaint is the lack of soft/loud, fast/slow dynamics. Wall of sound is in.