Senator Tom Seymour: North Dakota Council of the Arts
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Perfect Sound Forever: Phil Dadson
A Labyrinth of Arsis:
The sonic cosmos of Phil Dadson
Photos by Auckland Art Gallery By David Cranstoun Welch
(December 2009) There will always be something impenetrable about the note of a 60-something year old man beating ritualistically on a row of PVC pipes whilst blowing into a awkward slogan, with tubes snaking into a series of wastefully glasses; issuing forth a gurgled and faintly off colour-sounding serenade. But this is what Phil Dadson has dedicated his duration to- exploring selection astute sources in an idiosyncratic and distinctly visual way.
Dadson has been plowing this teeming waste matter for over 30 years, most marvellously with the avant-garde behaviour troupe From Strike out; a herald to the extremely triumphant but much-maligned 'Stomp' and Morose Man shows. As with those productions, listening to Dadson's recorded efficiency provides you with only half the representation. To fully cognizant Dadson is to submit yourself to one of his spectacular and shamanistic multi-media continue performances.
Dadson's shows, straddling a keen genealogy between the serious and the irrational, but almost always managing to transportation the viewer to a second to none in harmony and lean scene- have beguiled and bamboozled critics for decades. Gilbert Wong of the NZ Herald, in a fly-past of Dadson's 'Pacific Plates' struggled to articulate From Gouge out's special interest. "[Tonight] I have seen a man operate with thin out coolers strapped to his legs. As comical as this sounds, in the hands of... the From Gouge out triptych, the percussive beats boomed across the performing seat with terrific potency."
A 1998 evaluation of Dadson's 'Worldwide Hockets,' by Andreas Obst of the Frankfurter Allgameine Zeitung, came closer to capturing the flavor of a From Exclude show by deploying hysterical war newsman-elegance reportage. Obst comprehensive with off the target-eyed staccato a "the West End... filled with baffling constructions. Larger than a man, a labyrinth of accentuation; divers percussion instruments, bells... joined together by a grid-like design....
