Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Posted by The Stranger on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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Broadcast, Atlas Sound
Broadcast's and Atlas Sound's latest albums both explore what critic Simon Reynolds, borrowing from Derrida, has dubbed "hauntology" in music: "the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor non-being." In general, this means lots of disembodied voices, echoes, blurs, and hazes of sound, and a kind of sinister nostalgia or longing. Broadcast plies heavy-lidded, vintage psychedelia that plays out like the faded but color-saturated film stock of some old Italo horror flick. Atlas Sound makes soft, breezy bedroom-pop with a troubled past. Both are teeming with ghosts. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $13.50, 21+.)
ERIC GRANDYArt
'Human Opera XXX'
A very bad thing happens to a man, and when he comes to the studio of video artist Meiro Koizumi to recount this bad thing in a testimonial, an even worse thing happens—to the man and to us watching. Koizumi knows the evil a camera can do, and he is not afraid to use it. You have been warned. This artist doesn't pose as a good guy. (Hedreen Gallery, 901 12th Ave, 296-2244. 1:30–6 pm, free.)
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