Vic Rawlings & Tim Feeney, West Coast Tour!
You Californians are a lucky bunch. You get four opportunities to catch the astounding Vic Rawlings and Tim Feeney in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara this week!
Like all the music I’m passionate about, Rawlings & Feeney‘s music evades description. To state a complex thing simply, they play modified cello, electronics, and percussion, and it’s improvised… but man, whatever sound you just got in your head when you read my words is not what they do. The music is sparse, but jagged and unpredictable. It’s hardly event-driven linear improv, and neither is it precious quiet minimalism. These guys work in an epic scale, creating unstable sounds in massive structures that unveil so slowly and intentionally that its depth only becomes evident once you’ve been well immersed. If you don’t believe my hyperbolic prose, go hear ‘em for yrself! Here are th’ tour dates:
Monday 10/10 7:30 Songlines, Mills College
Wednesday 10/12 8:00 SASSAS, Los Angeles, CA
Thursday 10/13 8:00 UC Santa Barbara
Friday 10/14 10 am talk, UC Santa Barbara
Feeney/Rawlings at “The Way to Go Out” from Tim Feeney on Vimeo.
Tags: Ad Hoc, Mills College, Music Now, Santa Barbara, SASSAS, Songlines, Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings