Immersive Ideal

Image via Artisphere

Good Morning! Another weekend came and went here in our nation's capital city. Blustery winds and light snow made us all panic and buy bread, in that order. I was, against my will, forced to work late on Friday night, which made my weekend seem shorter than usual. Saturday morning, R. and I braved the not-so-bad weather to go check out Beauty Pill's Immersive Ideal exhibit at Artisphere. You can read all about the gist of the exhibit here at the Washington Post. We were lucky and got to sit through most of the tracks alone with no one else around. Basically you sat alone in a giant darkened theatre, with the best surround sound you've ever heard, playing a pretty awesome and impressive set of tracks. See how that would have been creepy with strangers around? Anyway... As the music played,  three separate screens showed photos from the recording of the album that had happened in that same theatre months before. It made me feel more in touch with what I was listening to in a weird way. I can't imagine how weird it must have been for the folks who came and watched them record it. I kicked myself for having missed out on that.
More Thoughts on Beauty Pill after the jump

I saw Beauty Pill a couple years ago when they opened for Dismemberment Plan at the Black Cat reunion shows. At the time, I have to be honest, I wasn't blown away. To be fair, I think I had a bad case of "Who are these guys, where is the band I came to see?", which was,admittedly, lame of me. R. has been a big fan and has tried to turn me on to them for a while now, but I have to say, hearing their new work on Saturday, really changed my mind. They seem to be a band working on carrying the traditions of the DC Music scene, which is near and dear to my heart. I'll be loading them on the ole' iPod for work this week and am going to give them another listen. And, for the record, no pun intended, how freaking awesome must it have been to record an album in a museum?