February 05, 2006

100 Guitars Performance

I was born for the stage. This is my latest revelation. It came to me in a vision that I imagine is the sort of vision that comes from playing a trance-inducing symphonic piece onstage within a malestrom of highly amplified electric guitars. How else can I explain it? The excitement and energy is addictive and does not fade easily. After the performance I wanted to run out to the parking lot and overturn a car. Something, anything. Just to keep that rush of adrenaline.

Wow. "Hallucination City: Symphony for 100 Guitars" went amazingly amazingly well. The sold out performance at Montclair State's Kasser Theatre was last night and I am still wound up and excited. It is hard to describe the sound and the feeling of the piece. Certainly it is difficult to describe from the vantage of the stage; the eye of the storm. It is very powerful. And loud. There is a indescribable energy to it. You don't just listen to it, you truly feel it. I mean, 100 amplified guitars, you are going to feel this thing coming at you.

I regret not getting people to come out for it now, but I really didn't know what to expect. It wasn't until the rehearsals on Friday and Saturday afternoon that I started to feel comfortable and subsequently realize that this was going to be a fantastic experience. It was also in New Jersey, and it's hard enough trying to get people to come into Brooklyn. There will be a cd released that was recorded over Friday and Saturday. Maybe if we all sit together and turn it up really loud...