California E.A.R. Unit/Sonic Boom plays Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music @ Redcat and UCI

California Ear Unit performs Lou Reeds- Metal Machine Music, transcribed by Ulrich Krieger

From Redcat website:

“Triumphantly out there… The E.A.R. Unit is known for taking left turns away from convention.” Los Angeles Times

“Krieger’s adaptation of Metal Machine Music is daring, explosive.” Chicago Reader

Ulrich Krieger’s latest electroacoustic version of Lou Reed’s audacious 1975 double-LP guitar feedback epic is the occasion for this expertly rendered hour-plus of clangorous mayhem from the California E.A.R. Unit and Krieger’s Sonic Boom outfit. First transcribed and arranged for chamber orchestra in 2002, Krieger’s score has as one of its biggest fans none other than Reed himself—so much so that the iconic rocker joined in with the German avant-garde ensemble Zeitkratzer for the work’s world premiere. The new adaptation of Metal Machine Music, part of an ongoing project by Krieger, seizes on the complex orchestral scope of Reed’s original, its modal use of pitch and rhythm, its bold yet intricate colors, and its sheer freewheeling, hard-rocking gutsiness—with the virtuoso players of the E.A.R. Unit and Sonic Boom coaxing from their instruments the improbable deep noise that Rolling Stone once called “the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator."

April 20th
Redcat
8:30PM
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
USA
213 237-2800
http://www.redcat.org/event/california-ear-unit-4
Price: $20

April 21st
8:00PM
University of Cal. Irvine
Gassmann Electronic Music Series
The Winifred Smith Hall
Irvine, CA 92697

Photo of California EAR Unit by Richard Hines

Photo of Ulrich Krieger/Sonic Boom by Scott Groller
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