Live at the Foundry: Two Hundred People, One Long Feedback Loop

Colony Dusk's shows are not so much performed as detonated. The band sets up in a circle, faces inward, and lets the room do the rest. Their last Foundry show ran forty-five minutes across three songs, one of which was a single sustained note passed between two guitars like a relay baton.

The crowd of two hundred treated it less as a concert than a weather event. Some stood motionless in the feedback; others drifted to the back wall, which vibrated audibly. By the end, the smoke machine had given up and the drummer was playing the floor toms with his hands.

"We don't write endings," guitarist Len Hart told us afterward, still ringing. "We just stop when the room tells us to." The bootleg, passed around message boards for weeks, is the best document of a night that was never going to be repeated.