END.>VACUUM

By: Editor | August 07, 2008 | Music

END.>VACUUM

For those who are interested:

Simply stated, end.>vacuum is a jagged collection of orchestral music
I have been writing for the past year. A horrendously turbulent, and
at times serene, aural interpretation of complex patterns and
geometric shapes that assemble themselves firmly into my
consciousness. A 40 minute-long insomnia-induced orchestral anxiety-
attack. (sounds like heaven, right?)

Under normal circumstances, I play guitar in a band called Incubus.
But last year I was forced to stop playing for several months due to
a wrist injury that required surgery, as well as a time-intensive
recovery. Without the option of picking up a guitar, it was during
that idle time that i began to write music for the orchestra, which
became like a musical game of ‘tetris’ for me. A huge challenge on
both cerebral and intellectual levels. I don’t know if it’s any good,
either.

Rather than to record this music and release it as an album, I
thought it would be much more risky and fun to for the maiden voyage
of ‘end.>vacuum’ to happen as a live, unedited performance in front
of my family, friends, and fans. With all mishaps intact.

The music will be performed in nine movements, by a group of
musicians i am calling ‘the graviton modern ensemble’, and will be a
mixture of professional philharmonic players and friends. Throughout
the piece, i will play a variety of different instruments (sans
guitar) alongside my brother, Benjamin Einziger, and my good friend
Blake Mills. Suzie Katayama will be conducting.

To make this event even more heavenly, the first part of the program
will consist of a lecture by my friend, and esteemed british
physicist, Dr. Brian Cox. He is a world-renowned scientist who acts
as a science correspondent for the BBC, and is currently conducting
monumental research at the large hadron collider at CERN. The large
Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator, and is the most powerful/
complex/expensive machine ever built by humans (google it). His talk
will be a discussion on particle-physics and the mind-bending
potential for major discoveries at CERN in the near future.

All this could make for an amazing evening at UCLA, or it could be a
train-wreck. We’ll all decide that together.

Cheers.
-mike