Atiny event barely raising a blip on the local arts and culture radar when it was first held in 2002, the Weather in My Brain Audio-Visual Arts Festival has grown from humble beginnings into a series of events that attract international performers and local talent.
Tomorrow night Mum, pronounced "moom," will, along with 8mm Sky (
Mum hails from Iceland and originally comprised twin sisters Kristin Anna Valtysdottir and Gyda Valtysdottir, both trained in classical music and two male knob-twiddlers. Gyda left the band after its second album, Finally We Are No One, was released.
Drawing inspiration from the likes of the Aphex Twins, the band has enjoyed some success across Europe playing experimental electronica.
Advance tickets for the gig are NT$1,350, and at the door entry will set you back NT$1,650.
For two local bands, and an avant-garde group from Iceland playing at a venue that usually charges in the hundreds of dollars, is it really worth it?
"We had to pay for Mum and their road crew, a total of seven people, to travel here, and the transportation of their equipment of course," said EJ Chen (
From the first festival when local artists spontaneously converged to form the program this concert could seem relatively expensive.
However, Mum plays a unique sound which covers a wide spectrum within the electronica genre combining melodicas, accordions, percussion and glockenspiels with laptop wizardry to craft engaging musical landscapes.
With all electronica groups there is always the concern that there will be something good to listen to at a gig, but not a lot to watch. Orvar Smarason, one of the two male members of the trio, has gone on record as saying that Mum is somewhere in between electronica bands that hide behind computers and those that go all out to provide visual as well as audio entertainment at concerts.
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