funniest review of one of my sets at a show is still
"While I am always privy to avant-garde performances, nothing prepared me for what I would experience with the project and artist under the title of Bxnshy. As if a ghost from my past had reappeared, I could have sworn the figure dressed in red resembled an eccentric acquaintance I had met only a few years ago at an LGBTQ youth-group meeting. Whether or not this was the same person who blocked me on Twitter for reasons I can’t remember, nothing prepared for me for what this individual had in store.
After the beginning of the show was announced, the red-clad individual sat down in a simple plastic-metal framed chair, and proceeded to stare at their phone while upbeat electronic elements blared through the lime-green speakers. I stood in the crowd with my camera in hand, unaware the show had started. About a few minutes into the set, I realized this was the show. After understanding this would be their final physical position, I began taking tepid photos, and silently shifted uncomfortably between shots, wondering if this was the kind of art installation where I would be assaulted in blind rage if I were to publicize what I just saw.
As the set rolled forward, the music clearly encouraged dancing, but the phone activity from the performer only encouraged others to do the same. Whether it was intentional or not, I found myself frozen in anxiety, waiting for them to make one nod of approval to the audience in order to tell us, the audience, things were going great. One thing is for sure: the music Bxnshy produced in this live setting was not an issue, and much of the crowd found entertainment within the combination of various electronic and organic sounds; but, I couldn’t help myself to wonder if others found similar feelings as I with the strange combination of infectious electronic riffs and a stoic persona."
-Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen via YabYum
