Above, watch 8bb perform Eel – four funky, canonic minutes of Dennis DeSantis-created madness – on Chicago TV station WGN’s midday news. You can also click here. The footage features Dennis DeSantis (far right in the video) remixing his own composition live. Ryan Ingebritsen acted as balance engineer for the performance.
The folks at Channel 9 treated us very well, and we were even given a guided tour of the studio in which the legendary Bozo the Clown worked for forty years. (For Aussies: think Humphrey B Bear, who rather frighteningly has been on the air for 42 years)
The performance kicked off a second (very) short period of intense work with Dennis DeSantis in advance of our January 26 Harris Theater show (which is just a week away, so make sure you buy tickets!). Click here to read about our first session, which took place in December. I shot some video from rehearsals today, and will post more comments when that is uploaded to YouTube. (I also have teaser footage from our first rehearsals of Steve Reich’s brand new piece, which I will post this weekend, I promise!)
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Excellent, I’m amazed they gave you so much time!!! Here’s (I hope) a permanent link to the flash player itself:
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