Earlier this month, Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) announced that he’d be giving an eight-hour solo concert, a sort of musical interpretation of Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, the story of the Buddha.
Apparently, he wasn't bluffing. The show happened today at Madame Zuzu’s, the Chicago tea house that Corgan owns. The show is all ambient and instrumental, mostly involving Corgan fiddling with a gigantic bank of electronics, along with narration from the novel.
"This patch is just a stone. It is worthless." - Herman Hesse
"This patch is just a stone. It is worthless." - Herman Hesse
Enlightenment is guaranteed for anyone who could make it through all eight hours of this in one sitting.
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