Video: Boredoms: "77BOADRUM"
"77BOADRUM", the piece for 77 drummers conceived by Boredoms visionary Yamantaka Eye, went off as planned in Brooklyn Bridge Park on 07/07/07. Video footage is starting to hit YouTube, just a taste so far, but enough to make those of us nowhere near New York insanely jealous. Reportedly there were plenty of cameras around and there are rumors of an eventual DVD, but for now we'll have to take whatever streaming video we can get.
This psychedelic color-inversion footage has a nice long stretch of good-quality audio, showing how rhythms were set against the Escher-esque, constantly-rising air-raid drone that is an Eye trademark.
From a similar vantage point, this clip gives the smallest hint of just how majestic
the Brooklyn Bridge looked as crushing power chords filled the air. Eat
your heart out George Gershwin!
And here's what it looked like to be sitting behind Lightening Bolt's Brian Chippendale as he goes ape crazy.