By Maxwell:
For electronic dance music fans, a well played DJ set is akin to a voyage of fantasy. In that fantasy, you are taken along a journey filled with emotional highs and lows in which the DJ unfolds a musical story customized to the crowds desires and expectations.
AcousticaElectronica brings the aforementioned notion to life and makes the figurative fantasy into reality. The newly created concept by ToUch Performance Art blends a live DJ set, by The Wig, with a theatrical performance, opera singing, and live musicians. It’s a hodgepodge of the arts never seen before, and only electronic music is capable of successfully tying together this myriad of arts.
The show left EDMBoston wowed that something this artistically avant-garde was bold enough to premier in Boston and return for a second go. AcousticaElectronica originally premiered during the Together Festival back in March. AcousticaElectronica brings something new to the EDM game that stretches the live music experience past an auditory experience to a new visual dance experience.
AcousticaElectronica leaves no doubt that you are entering an alternative experience from the moment you walk through the Oberon Theatre’s entrance. The performance hall feels like a traditional nightclub, yet you also know/feel like it’s a theatre. The confusing identity crisis subsidies as the opening DJ warms up the crowd on the open dance floor. Two go-go dancers entertain the crowd with draw dropping sexy manipulations of their body. The feeling in the room is dark and mysterious yet strangely inviting. Sexy house, minimal, and tech house tunes like “I Get Deep” (Joris Vorn This is Not A Remix) vibe throughout the room. While the audience is loosening up, Go-Go dancers expedite the process by inviting crowd members on to their raised platform boxes, in the middle of the dance floor to dance with them.The room is laid out similar to...
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