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Monsterboy Lives
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In the Backrooms is a Halloween centered experience featuring soundscapes instrumentals and tender haunting melodies. Audiences experience this layered body of work performed live by the music duo Monsterboy LIVES on an assortment of instruments throughout the event. The Backrooms is where industrial noise meets classical, world, and rock instruments to create atmospheric works for those seeking a uniquely dark and creepy experience.
This performance will include both physical instruments and an extensive collection of sampled instruments and noises, this music is hybrid in nature. Chris discovered using found sounds from Timbaland's Masterclass on beatmaking. This is the act of sampling interesting noises in our modern world with a handheld recording device that is then manipulated from the original waveform by stretching, clipping, effecting, and warping to create a playable bank of musical notes. This unique bank is then patched into a synthesizer to be used as a playable one-of-a-kind instrument. Classical, jazz, and rock instruments find their way into the works, from clarinets to electric guitars. The duo tops it off by utilizing a collection of odd relics, like a 1923 Conn Bass Saxophone and the1930s Silvertone Accordion to bring in the aged tones from bygone eras. In this way, these piece have connections to the past, but exist in a space of limbo. Combining these instruments in this way follows in the footsteps of music legends such as Trent Reznor and Akira Yamaoka. This performance will feature pieces that were originally commissioned by NPR affiliate Arts & Letter, based on the novel A Cosmology of Monsters. Additional pieces that were started during this time have been completed and will be heard by the public for the first time during these shows. Monsterboy LIVES will have two performances of In the Backrooms coming up in 2023, please join our mailing list for updates and more details! |
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