Music: [Classic_Rock_Forever] In Conversation w/Lou Reed and Bob Ezrin, Carpenter Center, Long Beach, CA

Forwarded to me by a like minded fellow. This would be pretty interesting to listen to. With any luck someone will be recording this and perhaps broadcast it.

Clint

I just saw this in the LA Weekly, for those that might be interested in attending. This is also the opening night of special exhibition of Lou Reed's music & remastered Metal Machine album at Cal State Long Beach Art Museum that runs through April 15.

This is from Wikipedia (seems Metal Machine Music is an acquired taste)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music

...As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalog, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music. The album features no songs or even recognizably structured compositions, eschewing melody and rhythm for an hour of over-modulated feedback and guitar effects, intricately mixed at varying speeds by Reed himself. In the album's liner notes he claimed to have invented heavy metal music and asserted that Metal Machine Music was the ultimate conclusion of that genre. The album made Reed a laughing stock in the rock industry while simultaneously opening the door for his later, more experimental material. Historically, Metal Machine Music is now considered a seminal forerunner of industrial music, noise rock, and contemporary sound art...

http://www.carpenterarts.org/2011-2012/legendary-musician-lou-reed-and-producer-bob-ezrin.html

In Conversation:

Legendary Musician Lou Reed and Producer Bob Ezrin

Tickets

$45 Regular (+ $3.75 convenience fee) + FREE to print your own E-ticker OR add $1 per order to mail your tickets placed on line.

Group rates available, call for details

For special seating requests, please contact the Arts Ticket Office at 562-985-7000 at least 10 days before performance date. Based on availability.

Fri, Jan. 27, 2012 at 8pm

Hailed as the founding father of alternative rock music—Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Velvet Underground legend Lou Reed is revered by fans worldwide for reshaping underground music with his own style while pushing boundaries as an opera composer, playwright, poet and photographer. Reed sits down with Bob Ezrin—the noted music producer who has helped refine the sound of artists from Alice Cooper to KISS to Pink Floyd. Join us for a rare moment in music history as these two legends share a combined 90 years of experience, giving voice to their thoughts, processes and motivations.

Presented in conjunction with the world premiere exhibition, Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe—an Arup SoundLab Installation of his remastered 1975 album Metal Machine Music. The exhibition is on view from January 27, 2012 through April 15 in the Project Room at the University Art Museum, CSULB.

at Carpenter Performing Arts Center
6200 Atherton St.
Long Beach, CA 90815

6200 Atherton St. (Between Palo Verde Ave. & Bellflower Blvd.)

Get directions under the 'Visit' tab at CarpenterArts.org

Long Beach Transit: Los Angeles Metro Blue Line to 1st Street,

transfer to bus line #173, exit in front of Center before Atherton/Studebaker stop.

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http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/EVENTSwiretap.html

http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/EXHIBITIONSupcoming.html

...The University Art Museum, CSULB will present the world premiere audio installation of Metal Machine Trio as an ambisonic 3-D re-creation. In collaboration with the acoustic specialists at the Arup Engineering SoundLab in New York, Reed has been able to recreate, for museum visitors, this groundbreaking composition from exactly the same acoustic perspective he had while performing it onstage.

The installation in the Project Room at the UAM will use 12 loudspeakers in an ambisonic arrangement to create a fully immersive 3D sound lab. The complete Metal Machine Music in four parts with run continuously with each composition lasting around sixteen minutes in length. Each of the four parts are unrecognizable as structured compositions and include over an hour of over-modulated feedback and guitar effects, intricately mixed at varying speeds by Reed himself. Chairs strategically placed in the room will allow museum visitors to experience the work in full comfort for the duration of the work.