The Blanton’s innovative music program returns to explore the history and future of the radio as a medium to share propaganda, mass culture, and even underground music, with curator Steve Parker presenting an eclectic group of musicians and performers who use sound waves, transmissions, and frequencies as the material for their compositions.
This concert helmed by Douglas Laustsen features electronic music created using recent real-time weather data and improvising musicians responding to the weather as it occurs around the site. And that site is the storied Museum of Human Achievement, whose talented crowd are currently attempting to work through some legal contentions with a candy bar company.
"Songs you hate to love; songs you love to hate," is it? Oh, totally: From ABBA to boy bands, from Eighties glory to ridiculously sublime love songs, the exuberant Pops choir, backed by a live band, pays homage to the songs we can’t believe we loved and the ones that we still can’t get out of our heads.
May 31-June 3. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 4 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $22 and up.