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Drone Not Drones: 28-Hour Music Happening vs. Military-Industrial Complex

by | Jan 29, 2024 2:22 pm | Comments (0)

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Drone Not Drones.

Drone Not Drones
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis
1/26 – 1/27, 2024

By 6 a.m. on Jan. 27 at the Cedar Cultural Center, Drone Not Drones had been going for about 11 hours, and most of the audience was asleep. Onstage, one musician finger picked a guitar, shoulders rolled. Another sat behind a drum kit, their face half-shrouded from the projector by a hoodie. The music was ethereal and understated. About 50 people were on the floor in sleeping bags. Others wandered the venue wearing blankets. A few people sat upright, half-dazed, staring at the stage, as Matt Sowell’s set overlapped with Wendy Drums. The sounds overlaid with sounds for one, long continuous drone that was, by the time this reporter finished this piece six hours later, still droning. 

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