Quiet Music Festival 2016 is happening now at Disjecta.
Stephanie Leet attended QMF last night. She provided the following photo journal. Kathleen Dolan is in attendance tonight and will compose an introduction for this piece, plus a photo journal. Thanks for checking these out and be sure to return to see the final copy.
Lee and Hannafin duo
The act of the evening was Catherine Lee on the oboe and Matt Hannafin on an array of percussion instruments. Their music is enjoyable, peaceful and meditative. I felt like I was in the Jungle Book at times, before Shere Khan attacked.
Larry Yes featuring Nate Lumbard and Michael Hurley
This three-piece led by Larry Yes is a lovey, folky experience. They had painted Love and Yes signs adorning the stage — for sale for 20 dollars. All proceeds will go towards recording their record. Larry’s lyrics were uplifting and positive, but he’s also quite the funny man. Their performance also included a light show by William Rihel in which he used a projector and various colored oils and water to make a pretty great 70’s vibe.
Juan Wauters
This may have been my favorite performance sheerly because he seemed to not know he was at a quiet music festival. His vocals were quite loud in the beginning and when they turned him down, he stopped his song and got confused about why they would do that. He had some sweet moves and pretty awesome lyrics like “when I learned not to think of thinking.” Thoroughly enjoyable.
Peg Simone and Mary Gaitskill
This performance was more of a spoken word piece with accompaniment. The words were haunting and intense. I loved Mary’s first piece, about hell and a little girl who walks down clean steps to get there. This was done with Peg on the synthesizer. Then Peg switched to guitar and Mary went into a song. This part of the performance made me feel like I was in Twin Peaks. It felt other wordly and I can’t really explain why. I didn’t even take photos, I was so mesmerized.
Composed by Kathleen Dolan and Stephanie Leet, formatted and edited by Sean Ongley.
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