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PROCESS OF CREATION This was no ordinary rock show - it was the closest thing that rock music has to show in the way of avant-garde music. Even apart from the strange opening in which a fellow gifted as magician, juggler and fire-eater, breathed forth flame so a white-robed lady could light her cigarette - there were other novelties in the Pink Floyd show at Lisner Auditorium last night... Echo and reberberation units, time delivery devices, synthesisers and taped sound segments were all part of the act. Pink Floyd played into a 32 channel mixing panel that replayed the joy into a public address system completely encircling the audience. Any given instrument, by these means could be "placed" at any position in the hall and could be mixed with all kinds of taped wonders such as chirping birds and high volume "white" noise. They did not worry too much with the usual content of music. When they sang, the vocals were not important as words with meaning but rather as aspects of an exciting tension that you could hear in the process of creation. Form and contenet were replaced by dynamics. The band sounded sometimes like a screaming saw, sometimes like a fleet of intergalactic jets. A guitar, with this group, became a screeching bird. Drums were explosions. "Set The Controls" as they sang(and as the audience did) For The Heart of The Sun". (The Washington Post) Info Source: Pink Floyd:In The Flesh by Glen Povey and Ian Russell
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