Ambient Experimental Music

In the afternoon, I went and met Chuck up at the Lamplighter. He was very kind and lent me this giant Alesis keyboard for piano sounds (touring musician ended up having to fly down for the tour so wasn't able to bring a keyboard for piano sounds and asked to borrow one so I asked around) even though the show was at a different venue! So very nice! The keyboard is old and huge and heavy. But it worked well enough! Then a little later I went up to the Hi-Tone for the show. I started of a little nervous that literally no one but me and the performing musicians would show up but people started coming in shortly after things got underway. Actually ended up having a decent crowd for a Monday night. I mean, it wasn't huge but we cleared the door threshold and it wasn't empty so that's nice. Strooly was first and had a very good ambient set. Next was Dinosauria who did his thing and was great as always. William Todd was the touring musician and he played the "piano" in a very minimalist style and then had a good bit of delay and granular delay and tapes and synths droning along for parts of it. He even had a cassette tape loop going out several feet wrapped around a mic stand (fun trick to see!). Really good stuff. Last was Cel Shade. So, she brought this old small crt tv with a vcr (had a stack of vhs tapes on top of it...including Bible Man, but that wasn't played). She had some tape loaded with Spice Channel commercials and various old school scrambled cable channel iterations of what was played on the Spice Channel. It was very perfect going along with her set, which was a very good one. She also had a little noise box with springs and clattery things that I believe was new (or new to me). Real awesome set and I was blown away a little bit. There was this younger guy that introduced himself who had found out about the show by looking for things to do and was on the Hi-Tone website and saw something about an ambient show with someone who played vaporwave and he said he couldn't believe there was something like that in Memphis and was very excited about it so that was cool! I got a shirt from William Todd and a couple tapes. Dropped off that giant keyboard back at the Lamplighter on my way home. That's about it.