[Photos/Video by Andrew Parks]
To answer your first question, yes the guys in the devil’s night costumes were Animal Collective in disguise–the closest they’ll ever come to high art versions of the mimes that haunt the subway and Central Park. And Danny Perez, why, he was hiding where you’d least expect it, playing a wizard-behind-the-curtain part quite well. We found this out by chatting with Gus, one of the sound engineers brought in to help filter hundreds of raw files through 36 speakers at the Guggenheim premiere of “Transverse Temporal Gyrus.” We’ll explain why many people were bored by the patience-testing performance art piece tomorrow, but for now, all we can say is we found a new appreciation for Animal Collective’s ambition after seeing just how calculated and complex the entire thing was on paper.
Check out a video clip after the jump. And again, we’ll have a full report with lots of pro photos tomorrow…
