American venues are experimenting with performing for audiences in the dark as a form of “musical meditation”. Brian Wise feeds back from the concerts that don’t mind if you fall asleep.
It’s just after 7pm on Thursday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a time when restaurants and bars are just starting to buzz with activity. But inside the National Sawdust arts space, audience members are stretching out on pillows and cushions, forming two long rows. The lights go out. Antiphonal volleys of snoring become audible. It is just what the musicians had in mind.
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It’s just after 7pm on Thursday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a time when restaurants and bars are just starting to buzz with activity. But inside the National Sawdust arts space, audience members are stretching out on pillows and cushions, forming two long rows. The lights go out. Antiphonal volleys of snoring become audible. It is just what the musicians had in mind.
Theo Bleckmann, the experimental, genre... Keep reading on The Guardian