Woody Brown: August 2009 Archives

Music enthusiasts who are sick of the mainstream (Daft Punk/Madonna mashups at La Luna every Wednesday) and dull (Chippewa loves "Pour Some Sugar On Me") have cause to celebrate.  Silent Exchange, an "all day, open air electronic music and art event," will be taking place on August 29th at the Rock Harbor Commons Village.

The event is sure to be a radical deviation from the norm.  Organizer and creator Meghan Mann espouses a new aesthetic, one that she employs to find a solution to what she sees as a lack in the Buffalo music scene: "My plan - the Silent Exchange concept - is meant to focus on what is missing: the simplistic, low key, underground, and more accessible side of the music and art scene. Buffalo does do a great job in introducing people to the mainstream sound, but Silent Exchange will open the door to a new experience - to an encounter with unconventional and unexplored surroundings where people can have direct access and a unique connection with the music