Black Dice "Brighton Festival" Fatcat Records

Director: Joe Tunmer
Date: June 2003

This clip is live footage of Black Dice playing live at a FatCat event at the Gardener Arts Centre in Brighton. The event was in May 2003 and was part of the Brighton Festival (also on the bill were Animal Collective, Drowsy, David Grubbs and Semiconductor).

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Music

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• Black
• Dice
• Brighton
• Festival
• Beaches
• and
• Canyons
• Fatcat
• Records

[Ramentastic]

Battles are an excellent band from Earth

Black Dice are an excellent band from another dimension.

[JustusTubes]

battles are good, black dice is better

[dunceman9]

@BansheeeeBeat it's the song creature from the album creature comforts

[pizzaROX]

battles? wtf nothing at all like this

[dannynanner]

@ForOctavioPaz I think this was a few months after that tour ended.

[TheJohnSanderson]

What is there to learn from this?

[xbyiu97]

@TMTKowalski let's compromise: when it comes to experiments in music, some elements achieve success and popularity, while some elements do not. a lot of things that are popular now were at one point experiments, but a lot of experimental things have not become popular. fair enough?

[TMTKowalski]

@xbyiu97

Yeah, yeah, it's a common place... I've been playing drums and guitar in several experimental bands and I don't see that people going nuts on Arnold Schoenberg or John Cage's music on first place, not to mention bands like this. Not even 1% of all people don't listen experimental music. Same thing was 100 years ago, but only now you get that artificial feeling that is popular because we have internet and it's easier to be aware of all these things.

[xbyiu97]

@TMTKowalski experimental music has always existed, hell the first song ever written was an experiment. and with your electric guitar metaphor, you're implying that all experimental music is the same even though its not. when electric guitar came out, it was an experiment.i looked up one of Luigi Russolos compositions and read the wikipedia article on him and a lot of things he did which were highly experimental during his time have now become commonplace in music, which i think proves my point.

[TMTKowalski]

@xbyiu97

I was just saying that this kind of music can never be "the way of the future" like you said because experimental approach to music started at the beginning of 20th century, so there is no any logic in that. It's like saying that electric guitar and distortion is "the way of the future" but we know that people used it for decades, that's all.

[xbyiu97]

@TMTKowalski i never claimed to be an expert on experimental music nor did i imply that black dice were more experimental than some of the greats you mentioned

[TMTKowalski]

@xbyiu97

You obviously don't know what you're talking about. People created more experimental music than this almost 100 years ago. Read something about dadaism, Luigi Russolo (search for him here on youtube), John Cage, avant-garde, vorticism, futurism, or go to UbuWeb web site and learn something.