PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Lou Reed's "Machine" More Strings, Less Metal

A real-time, chamber-music performance of an inhumanly generated composition: that was Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music as played by the Fireworks Ensemble at Miller Theater on Friday night. Mr. Reed recorded his 1975 album Metal Machine Music (RCA) by leaning guitars against amplifiers, cranking them up until the feedback screamed, playing melodies amid the sonic melee and layering and manipulating the results, including changing the tape speed of some parts. Then he chose four segments for 16-min...

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