One of my very favorite things to do is playing with The Q@YS. When people ask me what sort of music we play, I say, it’s a cross between the Grateful Dead and Radio Head! But that’s just really just a way of saying we try to be open with each other in the moment and the emotion.
The band is Dan Paluska, Grant Kristofek, and Ben Vigoda. Dan knows how to build robots, Grant — fusion devices, and I — AI. Between the three of us we maybe we could make super intelligent fusion-powered robots :-). We play music together and also we’re a co-therapy group for each other. Games for Song is a part of this practice.
In the band, I play a guitar with a miniature fusion reactor built into the heart of it. The energy of the vibrations in the music interact with the reactor somewhat like pebbles dropping into the surface of a still pond, the ripples propagating outwards through the plasma. This energy feels amazing — different than any other guitar. Sort of alive. I am pretty sure it’s not dangerous.
Our rehearsal space is located in a bit of an urban wasteland. Five streets and the T tracks converge there in an intersection of such anti-feng-shui and urban-planning-abandonment as to be almost breath taking in its panorama.
It used to be the machine shop for Pickle Robotics, and before that for many years, an auto-shop called “Quality At Your Service” — from whence our band name.
What hadn’t dawned on us was that it is also roughly across the street from what has recently became the Union Square T-Stop in Somerville, MA. People walk by, sometimes smiling, sometimes stopping to listen.
47 Webster Ave., Somerville, MA
Recently little crowds have gathered. People ask us if we have an email signup list. We do! We do!:
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We don’t really post our music online. We’re not on “social media”. We like to hear the music as we play it. Join us in the real universe, in the real moment!
