Spent a few hours listening to the performances at the BANG ON A CAN Marathon 2009 with a friend of mine who has little patience for la sonorité artistique. She described much of what she heard as "beehive music." I had to laugh. She wasn't wrong.
(One composer, Jeppe Just Christensen, played two pairs of amplified coffee grinders. Watch the video.)
Even so, The Smith Quartet seduced me with "White Man Sleeps," by Kevin...
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