not a huge announcement, but:
The Fiery Furnaces
12/11 Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
12/12 Bowery Ballroom, NYC
DC date?
and, funny:
BAND TO RELEASE SILENT RECORD
SINCE BANDS CAN NO LONGER SELL AUDIO, FF DECLINE TO PROVIDE IT.
Because file-sharing, or downloading, or whatever, has notoriously, or supposedly, made the production of the conventional ?with-audio? record obsolete, the Fiery Furnaces will release a Silent Record.
The Fiery Furnaces? next album will consist of instruction, conventional music notation, graphic music notation, reports and illustrations of previous hypothetical performances, reports and illustrations of hypothetical performances previous to the formation of their hypotheses, guidelines for the fabrication of semi-automatic machine rock, memoranda to the nonexistent Central Committee of the Fiery-Furnaces-in-Exile concerning the non-creation of situations, Relevant to Progressive Rock Division, conceptual constellations on a so-to-speak black cloth firmament, and other items that have nothing to do with the price of eggs, or milk, or whatever the proverbial expression ceased to be.
In other words, a Silent Record. You will note that there have been countless Anticipatory Plagiarisms of this endeavor. For instance, more than a millennium of sheet music. We hope to have learned from their numerous mistakes.
Upon release of the record, the band will organize a series of Fan-Band concerts, in which groups of perfectly ordinary Fiery Furnaces? fans will perform, interpret, contradict, ignore, and so on, the compositions that make up Silent Record. Write to
thefieryfurnacesemail@gmail.com to nominate your post office break room, truck stop parking lot, municipal arts center, local tavern, or what-its-name to host one of these ?happenings?. By ?happenings? I mean, what will be in the future, perfectly normal rock shows. And propose yourself for Fan Band participation.
No experience necessary.
http://www.thefieryfurnaces.com/site/2009/07/29/band-to-release-silent-record/
