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Hey do you wanna come out and play? #whoisinandwhoisout #dachshund #kingcharlescavalier #instadogs #comeout #andplay #dogs #dachshundsofinstagram (at PHIIT London Ltd.)

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BCMC & andplay Live Show Review: 2/20, Constellation, Chicago

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BY JORDAN MAINZER

Tuesday night marked the beginning of the Peter Margasak-curated Frequency Festival, an annual event hosted by Constellation that focuses on contemporary classical and experimental music. Though this year's lineup is heavy on microtonal music, specifically string players, the headliner of night one was a guitar-and-synth-wizard supergroup. BCMC is guitarist Bill MacKay and Cave/Bitchin Bajas multi-instrumentalist Cooper Crain. They had been playing live together for a few years before releasing their debut album Foreign Smokes last year via Drag City. Unlike what I imagine was the experience of many folks in the crowd on Tuesday, this was my first time seeing BCMC live. Witnessing their performance after their album was released, meaning I had a number of months to digest it, gave me a greater appreciation for how the duo was able to, live, build off of their compositions.

BCMC started off with abstract sounds, gradually becoming more concrete before reverting back to rounded noise. MacKay's bluesy guitar riffs embedded within Crain's synthesizer hum, replete with a sense of motion akin to a chugging train, simultaneously swirling and gentle. At times, the songs turned percussive, via pulsations, as MacKay either meandered or ripped slide guitar licks. Even Crain got an opportunity to solo on the keyboard on "The Swarm". Simultaneously tactile and droney, BCMC were able to lull you into hypnosis and suddenly capture you at the command of their instruments.

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The opening set from NYC-based string duo andPlay, meanwhile, set the tone (no pun intended) for the rest of the festival's ethos. Violinist Maya Bennardo and violist Hannah Levinson performed the two pieces that make up their latest album Translucent Harmonies (Another Timbre), both of which use just intonation. Kristofer Svensson's "Vid stenmuren blir tanken blomma" (“By the Stone Wall, Thoughts Become Flower”) emphasized extremely short strokes of different lengths and volume, using pauses and ultimate silence to create a sense of tension and disintegration. At times, one player would play a note--a mere pluck--and the other would continue their stroke, resembling a sort of synaptic process. Ultimately, the piece was paradoxically meditative, consistent in its lack of consistency. Their second piece, Catherine Lamb's "Prisma Interius VIII", was comparatively deliberate, the players playing in tandem at times and not just off of each other. As a duo, in contrast to larger ensembles who have played on other recorded versions of the piece, Bennardo and Levinson were able to strip "Prisma Interius VIII" down to its essential elements. Though there were many contrasts between andPlay and BCMC--in instrumentation, in groove (or lack thereof), in space--the two acts shared a common desire to hold your patience and deep attention, toy with your expectations, and make you reflect.

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David Bird’s new chamber concerto for AndPlay, premiered Dec 15 at 7:30pm. What a beautiful piece! Starts around 50 minutes.

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My organization runs a farm program in which our clients can grow produce for their homes or to sell throughout the year at local farmers markets. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We took a field trip to see just how everything goes down out there. We even found some shade and had our weekly staff meeting. We ate plums off the trees 🌳 A few even climbed into the irrigation ditch and caught “ craw dads” #goodtimes #funjob #work #andplay #career #professional #adulting #farming #agriculture ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RXL-wgkJQ/?igshid=1f3t57l3qd3cl

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Thanks for the #bts shot @andrea_tappero ・・・ I promise I was keeping lookout while doing my BTS thing. It’s always enjoyable watching the creative mind at work. #AndPlay #GameOn #CAR !! #GameOn #BTS #BehindTheScenes (at Roebling Suspension Bridge History & Heritage)

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