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What a First Third Week!
Three nights of live streamed music events in the Fedi via @owncast went down a storm!
Pulu
Starting with @thisoccasionalsociety‘s 3rd W3dn35day gig, bathed in purple light and surrounded by a multitude of screens and colourful blinking gizmos, pulu (@ahihi) began the set by saying that pretty much everything that could go wrong had gone wrong, and that they were forced to go with a last-minute plan B and hoped for the best. Pulu then proceeded to conjure up some lovely twinkling chords out of the legendary Music Mouse program on an old Mac running System 7, before switching to their live-coding environment. The public was then treated to an astonishing mix of delicate soundscapes, powerful intricate beats and basslines, mesmerizing synthetic and organic textures mixed in with sampled speech and field recordings. That would have been wondrous enough, except that Pulu knows how to marshal all that technology and all those sounds in service of an exceptional musical sensibility, which constantly walks a fine line between harmonic tension and glorious relief, or to put it differently, Pulu totally killed it and blew the socks off everyone in the TIBtv chat.
Control
Control (@[email protected]) absolutely ripped it up in the first NHAM in Concert event on Thursday, with an oontzing, stomping, near-two-hour set. He played the whole of the album MANIPULATE on the 25th anniversary of its release, followed by some bangers from his latest covers album. The chat was rocking and we had over 50 people come through the doors! The love shown was there to see both in the chat and by way of donations – his ko-fi page surpassing the $333 goal. One particularly touching message came in after the show from someone control hadn’t met before. They were merely watching TIBtv when the show kicked in. They loved the show, its “global tiny desk vibes”, donated, shared the album, learnt that CHVRCHES existed from the finale cover, and is now loving them.
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Meljoann
Rounding the week of live streams off, the NHAM Listening Party proved a big success too. We were slightly apprehensive as to how this might be received as it was a mostly audio affair on a visual platform (@TIBtv), but it went down a treat. Again a super-appreciative audience were in and showed their love to @meljoann as they listened to her album Status from start to finish. Meljoann was there herself to feel the love. Here are a few gem quotes from her in the live chat:
“Haven’t listened to this in a while. You know when you listen back and think… how tf did I do that”
-During Rainbow Language (is for Losers)
“Kinda making me want to make another album”
“my sis played this song to my little neice and nephew, they were like SHE SAID VAGINA”
– During Translate Me
“I was annoying my upstairs neighbour recording this one I think. They started blasting out Led Zeppilin for SOME reason”
– During Data Ghost
Next Time…
Be sure to join us again on the third week of next month when we’ll have live performances from @gribbles and @alexglow, plus another album listening party.
Details of each will be on our events page.
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