This is Perhaps the Weirdest Concert of 2013
John found this story in Time:
At Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, the last showing of “Oktophonie,” a 70-minute, pulsating electronic opera by the late German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, began in a hushed silence. After filing into the cavernous 55,000-square-foot Drill Hall, the well-heeled New York audience had to go barefoot and don shapeless white cloaks. The lights dimmed and we, a sea of floating ghosts, settled into the “seats”—a padded, cream-colored circle at the center of the hall. Created by Thai visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, the environment was meant to offer its inhabitants a “ritualized lunar experience,” in keeping with Stockhausen’s request that the piece be performed as if from outer space.
