NEEDLE-PLAY

Mobius Trio performs at the Kennedy Center on April 26, 2011.

NEEDLE-PLAY is a set of aphorisms outlining a typical experience at a community acupuncture clinic in the SOMA district of San Francisco. The three guitars play various roles throughout: they explore the subdued yet effervescent energy of the nervous system at work, outline the exact points of entry and exit of this energy (i.e. where the needles are placed and then removed), and mimic the ambient interruptions of fans, noise machines and human shuffling. Like a treatment in the chair, what results is a bifurcated experience of deep relax and vivid awareness (and the strange lucid dreams that accompany).

<1> noodles for veins

<2> in the middle of putting things together and organizing

<3> these boys aren’t LA-Z

<4> deeper and deeper

<5> waking up next to ben franklin

<6> flutter-byes

For guitar trio. Performed by the Mobius Trio.