Michael Hall

Here is an excerpt of an email i sent to a friend a few years ago where i was telling this person about how i had seen a short segment on the 6 0'clock news concerning the random 3:30am perfomances I and 2 friends were conducting in san francisco but that residents were being terrorized. ............................................................ ...about the long segment i saw on yesterdays 6 oclock news that describes the last 4 3:30 am steel pipe plate glass 55 gallon steel drum symphony that i and my 2 comrads Daisy and Frank drop slowly from the rooftop of a 4 or more story building at random areas of SF. the idea is to slowly drop the first drums contents of different sized metal pipes which wakes up everyone within earshot / thats a good half block of echo going both directions/It would be safe to assume that the first thoughts of most sleepy headed members of the audience is most like likely a degree of wonder. "what the devil is that?" and just as they are begining to identify the what it could be, it gets louder and more cacaphoneous and more frightening depending on how close they are to ground zero. as the last pipes are emptying out of the second drum we release no less than 2 and no more than 5 sheets of plate glass/ twice blessed with 4'x6' mirrors. immediately after the glass, we let the steel drums finnish the piece and that has the best effect of all i swear. if we do it right the audience will be thinking the whole time that the sounds are getting more and more beyond anything they would ever imagine hearing to the point of it all becoming frightfully surreal. we had a friend stand 2 buildings away on the street once so he could film it. he got like 2 seconds of it before he ran away. he said he ran out of fear like a reaction, it scared the shit out of him. so the news said that residents have been getting woken up at aproximately 3:30 am in random areas of the city by "unknown persons throwing barrels of steel pipes and sheets of glass off the roofs of multi-level apartment buildings which not only leaves a terrible mess but the majority of the callers to the sfpd and 911 are bewildered frightened and frantic. some people describe the feeling as waking up to the end of the world." THE END OF THE WORLD! We actually had people believing the world was ending! that is the greatest compliment i could have ever gotten after any performance of any kind thus far in life. they showed a resident laughing about it but saying that when it happened she thought a plane was crashing into a building nearby. haha So ya me daisy and frank are going out to celebrate our 15 minutes of fame tonight and get drunk.