Last Saturday George and I went to a Jazz concert by Tim O'Dwyer - from NUS arts festival. The ticket was $25 per pax. The saxophone player was branded as the "most innovative and accomplished" from his official website.
The concert indeed started with tremendous amount of energy, as what the NUS arts brochure has described - "mind blowing". But I am not sure if I really appreciate the mixing of various strange sounds into music. Maybe that's the meaning of free jazz - however i thought at some moments, the squirting sound came from the saxophone did imitate a desparate bird song or even - scream of a donkey, if I'd say.
The special effects created by the bass and the percussion - was extraordinary on the other hand, The rhythmic scrambles with sticks, car plates (from NSW of Australia), dry brushes, bells and even a Chinese-style children's toy drum agree to my ear very much. These special effects gave me a horizon to imagine - as if i am on an ancient beach on a deserted island, or in a jungle with dangerous beasts lurking around, or from a mysterious kingdom's showroom before a performance starts...
Bummer - a donkey howls into the beautiful imagination of the above movies in my head and that's where the high-pitch saxophone's part came in.
oh well - i am just a layman, but i really wish the saxophone can be played a bit more on the normal side.
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