~Sleep inducing concert---I need my sunglasses!~

After going to the Deutsches Museum, we went to watch a concert at 8pm at Gasteig, the cultural centre of Munich and which host the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard Strauss Conservatory, the folk high school, and the municipal library are all located in Gasteig, and it’s the holding place for most of the events of the Film Festival of Munich too.

The concert we attended was held in the black box studio theatre. Well…comments on the concert?

Sorry to say, I didn’t really enjoy the concert. It was an electronic base concert, portraying a lonely man blowing the saxophone, with beating of waves in the background. The music sounded lonely, and overall it reminded me of music from ‘Secret Garden’ or ‘Heaven Blue’. If you’ve heard music pieces from Secret Garden or Heaven Blue, you’ll know that while those music pieces are good for studying, they are good inducers of sleep. As a result you can imagine what most of us were doing---struggling to keep awake, heads nodding in beat to the music. While many of us were bored by the concert, there was, however, an old man sitting in wheelchair in front of me who was really enjoying the concert and dancing (in his way) to the music! Thanks to him I was able to keep myself awake!

There was a screen that displays scenes in the sea, as described by my friends who got better seats and managed to see what showing on the screen (I was sitting at a left corner and thus couldn’t see the screen at all). In the middle of the concert, 3 men in white suits (probably acting as some creatures living in the sea) with frequency sensors came out. They reminded me of the Phantom of Opera except for the fact that they’re fully masked. I don’t really understand the meaning behind their entrance, but I figure they were trying to detect and play with the frequency of music coming from the saxophone, thus showing how the saxophone music sounded in the sea.

The concert lasted for 45mins, and well it’s an experience!