"w ((aa)) ou w (pronounced 'wow'), also known as 'Poverty Hymns,' is a Buffalo-based electro-acoustic sound trio fronted by Jim Abramson, Tristan Trump, and Jax DeLuca, who is also Programming Director at Squeaky Wheel ( http://www.squeaky.org/ ). Their set consists of avant-noise rock at punishing volume, utilizing live drums, samples/loops and manipulated voice coupled with video projections to produce cacophonous multi-media results." Band website: http://www.myspace.com/pronouncedwow Clips from other live performances at Soundlab: May 9, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfZmrabheE September 30, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POWb3t_H85Q
Excerpt from the last 18 minutes of their approximately 40-minute improvisation at Soundlab in Buffalo, NY, on Wednesday, October 7, 2009... "This performance began with a formal constraint: the three performers would create a visual score to music (still or video, any length), and a means to interpret such a score (from completely off the cuff to very technically prepared, in any instrumentation or musical paradigm). At the beginning, the performers exchange the visual scores, having never seen them, and perform them simultaneously, according to the means they've prepared. Totally improvised, impossible to foresee."
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