ARTICLE: “One big installation” (Solid Sound Festival)
I’d love you to check out the first of two reviews of the Wilco-led Solid Sound Festival that held the Berkshires in thrall for several days (weeks?). Here’s the review of the music, published in the Berkshire Eagle.
Coming later this week is a color piece on the festival and scene as a whole, coming in Metroland. (Above photo by JDG.)
“To assess it simply in terms fit for the typical summer rock festival seems to miss the point. Where does one rank the experience of hearing Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche explain the functioning of his interactive drum head exhibit, amid the setting of MoCA’s major Sol LeWitt exhibition? Or catching a bit of famed performance-art troupe Bread and Puppet, through the windows from inside the galleries? Or, even, making use of the power outlets and free wifi connection from a table in the indoor café, while the band’s set happening next door is helpfully played on the speakers?”
