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OPERATIC OR NOT, a review of THINGNY IS BACK, the third night of fidget’s 4th Annual Fall Experimental Music Festival
Adam Vidiksis’s legs are completely still like a concert violinist’s. He barely bends except to lean over the snare as he burrows the tip of a single drumstick into it. Using a regular drumhead made flexible by removal of the muffler, he demonstrates its malleability, bending the snare down into itself with one stick and rapping across the concave surface with the other to produce a sound like rain. more…
