The following are short excerpts of my reactions to the events I went to this semester for class.

To view my full reaction, please click the underlined title.

Per Tengstrand
Per Tengstrand’s performance at the EMPAC gala weekend was nothing short of spectacular. To tell you the honest truth, I do not like piano performances, along with other classical forms of music. However, I was blown away by his playing. I am not sure if it was the magnificent concert hall we were in, or just the fact that he is a truly gifted pianist, but I loved every minute I was in the hall listening to him play. As he played each of the pianos, I could hear the rich sound completely fill the concert hall in perfect clarity...

EMPAC: 306° Projection Screen
On the opening day of EMPAC, I went to the 306° Projection Screen room a few times. Quite frankly, I was absolutely blown away! I have never seen anything like it before. When I walked into the room, I didn’t know where to start looking. It was a bit overwhelming at first trying to figure out at what point on the screen I should be focusing on because something was happening everywhere. For one of their presentations, there were stools scattered throughout the room, with a special “director’s” stool in the middle. The only part of the screen and audio that was in focus was what the person sitting in the director’s stool was looking at. Everything else was out of focus, the video was blurry and the audio was faint. This made the already awesome experience I was having even better...

Dumb Type: Voyage
I have never felt such a wide range of emotions in a single sitting in my life. While watching Dumb Type’s performance, I seemed to feel every emotion known to man. I felt happy, sad, frightened, confused, bored, and interested all during the same performance. If that’s the effect Dumb Type was going for, they succeeded. But I think the emotion that I felt the most consistently throughout the performance was confusion. Even now, while looking back on it, I still can’t put together what I saw in that theater. I could not find a discernable story, and when I thought I did, the mood, theme, and story seemed to change all at once. It was by far the most bizarre things I have seen in my life...