WSK X: Festival of the Recently Possible
Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 9:00PM – 1:00AM
Dulo MNL
4992 P. Guanzon, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
The hypothetical archive documenting the entirety of rock music is a sonic slag heap of wailing guitars, howling vocals, and other unholy utterances from which emerges a discernible continuum of tired forms and themes, stylistic artifices and hackneyed devices accumulated in less than a century. However, rock and roll’s promise of raw power and the wild electricity of live performance never diminished for some. These iconoclasts, coming all the way from Cavite, the Visayas region, and Singapore, harness and challenge two of rock music’s defining characteristics — its relative formal simplicity and its commitment to sheer intensity — via oblique approaches, expanding, disrupting, and redefining the genre’s syntax with the integration of unorthodox elements, and ultimately, opening up new paradigms. In BABEL, the shared Promethean project of galvanising the presumably exhausted idiom of rock through the mutually destructive interplay of polarities — the primal and cerebral, noise and nuance, convention and deviance, rabid fervor and analytic detachment — is on full display.
Featuring:
Bombo Pluto Ova
Elemento
Cedrik
The Observatory
Erick Calilan
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WSK X is supported by Nusasonic, an initiative of Goethe-Institut Philippinen, and the 国際交流基金アジアセンター The Japan Foundation Asia Center under the Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration.
