Hamburg-based photographer Klaus Frahm takes us behind the stage of many European theaters and offers us an unconventional perspective, which symbolizes the antithesis of the spotlight. By shattering the illusion of completion and perfection, Frahm depicts the full production behind the scenes. The dark and highly contrasted photographs reveal the theaters’ technological elements, its staging lights and complicated, less glamour space behind the curtain, which are concealed from the audience. Frahn’s goal “is to give way for a new perspective, to entertain, to offer a fresh sight on familiar things,” and to “reveal something laying under the surface.” The Fourth Wall is the audience’s chance at viewing reality.
I haven’t posted here in a long time, but I don’t know where else to write about the fact that I bought new IEMs and I just started listening to songs I really, really dig into, eventually leading me back to where I always seem to go, Brandi Carlile’s live set on KCRW from 2006.
Her voice breaks up so perfectly I absolutely crumble inside when the band plays Throw it All Away around 19 minutes in. Anyway, I’m a wreck, my dog hates fireworks, and I haven’t finished my laundry because a lady sang a song once about a dozen years ago and it just sounds really good in my new headphones.