"HELLO, WORLD is ephemeral, like a live performance has been since the first musicians. Each event will happen and then be gone - no recording, no coming back to it later. In the moment across human hours, online, but not forever—not adding mass to the snowball of data we must process, remember, reference, link-to, protect, promote. Events in time, across time, each one appearing everywhere at once and only once."
Catch this while you can! Portland band, Modern Kin, have been playing release shows at Mississippi Studios and live-streaming the performances on Youtube. At the present moment, there have been five shows over the past twelve hours, with two more to go. This is the gist of their HELLO, WORLD project. In seven different time zones, at their local 10PM time slot on either 10/25 or 10/26, you can tune in and hear the band play their release show over and over again.
Unfortunately, I didn't make it at 10PM my local time (UTC-4) last night, but it's currently a little after 10AM and I just watched the UTC+9 performance. I can't imagine a better way to start off my Saturday morning.
The project is ambitious, but we're five shows in and the band shows no apparent signs of wearing or slowing down. I also loved how it was 7AM in Portland and there appeared to be a decent-sized crowd over at Mississippi Studios.
If you haven't watched any of the live performances yet, I highly recommend tuning in for the last two shows. There's one at 4PM EST and 5PM EST tonight. Considering that's prime pre-game time for tonight's activities, I'm thinking of having a few friends over for cocktails and having this stream.
Stream the shows from the video above (at the appropriate times) or check it out on their HELLO, WORLD site. The self-titled album was released on October, 22. It's wonderful. You can purchase it on their bandcamp page.
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