Simultaneously, his installation emits sounds created by the codes, making the work a visual-meets-sonic glitch arena. .
Patrick Ewing added 11 points and eight rebounds and displayed an arsenal of behind-the-head and over-the-shoulder passes in his first game as a Sonic at Key Arena after being traded from the Knicks.
But Sonic Youth was opening arena shows for Neil Young earlier in the year, and most of the other bands on the circuit — like Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, Babes in Toyland and Gumball — were also playing to the largest audiences of their careers.
Music wafted through the 17,500-capacity arena with sonic nuances rarely heard in buildings this size — the crisp crunch of percussive shakers, the melodic thump of conga drums, even the sound of guitarists' fingers slipping across the metal strings of their instruments.
Evol catapulted Sonic Youth into the national arena after previously only being known in New York.
He repeatedly noted the failure of Washington state to approve public financing for a new arena for the Sonics, and the city of Seattle's "scorched earth" policy to keep the team at KeyArena through the 2009-10 season.
Jerry Seinfeld's old line about how sports fans root for clothes is essentially true if the Kings moved the 600 miles north to Seattle and put on the old yellow and green jerseys, they'd have different owners, players, coaches, and, in a couple years, a different arena than the Sonics of my youth.
Efforts by N.B.A. officials and the Sonics' owners to build a new arena, with the assistance of public financing, have been consistently rebuffed, and the league is now conceding the battle.
Sonics Are Politely Pumped for Their New Arena.
Sonics Fans Are Politely Pumped for Their New Arena.
Throughout, punk minimalism redeems arena excess in a delicately shaded show of sonic force.
