TenetOctet Likes To Bang

Nov 30, 2007

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Enough with the paint and sculpture for a while, why not sate your ears for a few. This Saturday at Squeaky Wheel, TenetOctet strikes again, but under a new name – The Reactionary Ensemble. The two found it more suitable, and business smart, to start another project and still maintain their first child for simple safety reasons.

Their sound has remained unhampered under this change and furthermore can be said to have become more complex, more hands mean more sounds and special effects, such as video. The video is not meant to steal the spotlight, but backlight the ever progressive sound streaming forth from the hands, or bent cymbals, of Tristan and KG Price.

Seriously, get off your ass. These guys just arrived home from Japan with an aftertaste of synthetics, claiming jovial new beginnings. “[We are] now consisting of distorted video/audio feeds, out-of-phase-guitar loops, haunting cello, free jazz versus tribal percussion and even sometimes a single voice, the ensemble aims at the more angular and abstract. Sometimes casting forward imagery of the “everyday” in uncomfortable ways that makes you realize it’s true absurdity. Killing the dramatic crescendo before it’s peak to prove there is still joy in the incomplete. Atonal, static scratching greets patterns of soft color as testament that the marriage of anything is possible.” What the fuck better is going on in Buffalo on a 32 degree Saturday night? Nothing.

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