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Sound Unseen: All Tomorrow's Parties
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Sat Oct 3
8:45 pm
Sound Unseen: All Tomorrow's Parties at The Trylon
The unique thing about the UK's All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which began in 2000 and has spun off a satellite festival in New York, is that its corporate organizers hand over creative control to a series of curators who are themselves prominent musicians—a roster that's included Shellac, Melvins, The Mars Volta, Mogwai, and My Bloody Valentine. The emphasis is often on the obscure, the underground, and the experimental in genres from metal to electronica to hip-hop. Given all that, it's no surprise that a documentary about the festival would have its own hook. Edited together from seven years' worth of footage by more than 200 people, the constant shifts in film and sound quality can be enervating, but give an enjoyable twist to what would otherwise be merely a serviceable concert film.
The Trylon 3258 Minnehaha Ave., Twin Cities, MN
The unique thing about the UK's All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which began in 2000 and has spun off a satellite festival in New York, is that its corporate organizers hand over creative control to a series of curators who are themselves prominent musicians—a roster that's included Shellac, Melvins, The Mars Volta, Mogwai, and My Bloody Valentine. The emphasis is often on the obscure, the underground, and the experimental in genres from metal to electronica to hip-hop. Given all that, it's no surprise that a documentary about the festival would have its own hook. Edited together from seven years' worth of footage by more than 200 people, the constant shifts in film and sound quality can be enervating, but give an enjoyable twist to what would otherwise be merely a serviceable concert film.
Updated 09/24/2009
