The Juksan Festival was mexcellent. It is located at the Laughing Stone Arts Village on a mountain in a tiny farming town. The roads to get there were treacheruos hey what. It is a dance festival and there was some multimedia too and us, three musicans. Many Korean hippies - an unusual sight. The place reminds me of Ted's place on the Washington side of the Columbia gorge, but on a bigger/richer scale. Awesome large crowd, kids, oldies. I saw Rina Schenfeld (Israel) dance: which I vigorously disliked. I saw Dance Company JOBAC which was youthful but cliche-ridden, I saw a nothing video by an old Japanese guy and I met Eric Anderson and Dorte Krogh representing Fluxus. Hong Sincha, the hostess, is quite a celebrated choreographer/dancer, apparently, and her piece featured a guest performance by a Japanese Butoh dancer named Taketeru Kudo, who was by far the class of the weekend. The dude was great. Alfred, Choi, and I were a fucking weird trio in attitude and performance. I think we went over mixed: our set was extremely risk-oriented...
Hey, there's an article about peevish at Perfect Sound Forever. It's by Dom Maltempi and it is almost as disconcerting as a peevisshow. As a frequent Peevish participant, I feel obliged to inform you that Peevish rulez and you should a) read the article and b) start a peevish cover band.
In morenewsrelating to me, I noticed yesterday that somebody got it together to put some information at the rasbliutto recordings website. I will henceforth order some discs from them and so will you, so will you (you just don't know it yet).
I will be playing on July 28 at SCUM in Seoul in duo with Alfred Harth. Also being present there then will be Astronoise, Sato Yukie, and two Japanese musicians whose names I cannot read as they're in Japanese, duh! Update: One of them is Yoshimitsu Ichiraku (of ISO) and the other is from Acid Mothers Temple.
posted by Brad Larcen 7/01/2003[edit]
