In the current Philadelphia Weekly:
Rafael Toral
Mon., May 18, 8pm. Free. With Alex Nagle/Joe Lentini, Dave Smolen. The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. www.bowerbird.org
“Let your body move to the music,” Madonna once sang, and Lisbon-born Rafael Toral responds to that directive in some of the most radical ways you’ll see — producing real-time sound with “glove-controlled computer sinewaves,” for instance. It even looks a bit like voguing. But the music is wholly experimental, liquid and formless, from another dimension. Toral employs the gloves and other futuristic instruments to create “space studies,” and this week’s duo set with the highly physical percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will push the work in new improvisational directions. Philly-based sound sculptors share the bill, brought to you by the ear-nourishing Bowerbird series. — David R. Adler
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