Merce Cunningham/Sonic Youth/John Paul Jones

Saw a pretty interesting show at BAM last night. It was a 90th birthday celebration for the iconic choreographer Merce Cunningham and featured live music by Sonic Youth and John Paul Johns. JPJ's contribution sounded like some ambient electronic music that had been prerecorded but as the show went on there was a nice video projection of what he was actually doing. At one point he had a metal tray with contact mics on it and was shaking a key back and forth and had a couple of rubber bands stretched across. Sounded pretty unbelievable though the sound system. Couldn't see what else he was using, as he was on top of this spaceship-like structure in the back of the stage. Sonic Youth were also installed on this and were their usual noisy awesome selves. The abuse they give their guitars is truly scary and make me want to start taking a screwdriver and other random tools to my instruments.