On March 17th the Weather Duo had the opportunity to open up a Surrounded by Reality Event featuring Jaap Blonk, a Dutch spoken word artist who focuses on sound poetry and electronic music. It held at the Audio for the Arts studio in Madison and was a fantastic event. The Weather Duo played a 25 min set of improvised acoustic and electroacoustic music with many twists and turns followed by Jaap, who performed for nearly an hour. A highlight of Jaap’s set was his performance of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate. The Weather Duo and Jaap then combined forces for a short but sweet 12 min set. We are going to release both the Weather Duo set and the Weather Duo w/ Jaap Blonk set as an album in the very near future. Here are a couple of excerpts from that performance.
Excerpt from set 1 – Weather Duo
Excerpt from set 2 – Weather Duo & Jaap Blonk
Many Thanks to Steve at AFA for recording this!
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