Black helicopters in the sky are for some people at minimum intriguing and for others disturbing. Black helicopters in the sky can feel ominous to certain types of American citizen. Can you imagine how veterans of Vietnam must have felt for a certain amount of time after that era? Disaster Amnesiac sees them on occasion, floating over Tucson. There's a major Air Force base here, so in some ways they just feel part of the scene, regardless of what my subjective feelings about the Military Industrial Complex are. For Vermont-based composer Glen Weyant, a recent sighting of (presumably black) helicopters in the sky over his head in East Montpelier inspired a musical action. It is documented on Helicopters Over East Montpelier Rag:a, an almost fifteen minute composition for guitars, percussion, and electronics. Weyant essentially pairs his noisy musical sounds with the whirring of said helicopters as they worked out some kind of maneuver. It's a righteous blast of chaotic electric guitar overload, enhanced by some sort of resonant metallic object, eruptions of feedback scrawl (the electronics element probably), a dog, and the helicopter blades. It sounds as if Glen was really inspired and worked quickly to document a duration of possible mental instability, turning it into art and thereby winning a small battle against a force that is so much more well funded and in some ways omnipotent within this realm. Those helicopters' sounds are still present at the conclusion of Helicopters Over East Montpelier Rag:a but then again I imagine that Weyant is as well, having taken instruments of mostly destructive nature and utilized one of their features towards a more creative vision. Dig in here to help this peaceful art warrior.
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