Annual trek to Knoxville for the Big Ears music festival.
Short reviews (and a representative photo) of each performance are on Facebook, perhaps to be copied over to here someday. For now I’m posting these summaries here for quick(er) reference than I can get from Facebook.
Thursday, day 1 of 4: – Kramer – Tigran Hamaysan – Tyshawn Sorey + Adam Rudolph – Steve Roach and the astonishing Age Of Reflections projection – Wayne White’s Username/Password – Darkside
Friday, day 2 of 4: – Immanuel Wilkins ensemble – Philip Glass Ensemble – Fugazi film – Tyshawn Sorey (Feldman/Rothko) – Sun Ra – Joseph Keckler – Thor Harris – Dawn Richard + Spencer Zahn – Squanderers – Sorey again – Steve Roach again – Mike Reed’s Separatist Party – Maria Chavez + Miriam Rezaei + Victoria Shen
Saturday, day 3 of 4: – Eiko Ishibashi film score – Steven Shick – Philip Glass Ensemble (again) – Holocaust violins exhibit – Wayne White artwork – Pangrok prints – Beak – WTF portrait mode, and camera shortcut – William Basinski and the Art Of Reflections projections again – Michael Rother (Neu et al) – the astonishing Peni Candra Rini – SML – Dakha Brakha – Claire Chase et al – SUSS – Ahmed – Clipping – Fabulous Funky Fred – Water Damage
Sunday, day 4 of 4: – Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (film) – more gallery wandering – Susan Alcorn tribute – Eliza McCarthy – Kahil El’Zabar Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – old cemetery – Anoushka Shankar