Eardance (1982)*

In 1982, I remember seeing an ad in Keyboard magazine for a group called Eardance. The ad touted the group's stellar academic music credentials and I sent away for a demo flexi-disk (I think). Whatever the case, I heard some of their music. Yuck. It sounded like 80's polyrhythms with a soaring operaesque vocal. It was one of those "let's try to elevate pop music to the level of classical music" type of efforts. There's nothing worse than academics trying to work in popular genres. I'm not too concerned about that with our project. But it's amusing for me to think of Noise as the cinematic Eardance of the new millenium.

*This is not the same group as the recent Eardance that creates jazzy muzak.