The Changing Tides of Hopscotch’s Avant-Garde

Source: Indy Week, a discussion of the Hopscotch Music Festival, which takes place this weekend in North Carolina.

The 2013 iteration somehow managed to push the festival’s lineup further into strange territory, with improviser-in-residence Merzbow shattering my eardrums too many times to count. The best moments were, once again, the most visceral: Charlemagne Palestine‘s luminous piano chords; Pharmakon’s screeching walls of static; Matmos‘s transformation of sounds into objects into strangely compelling dance music; and on and on.