the sanctified

Beautiful, haunting, rapturous: these six shows—and one omniverous talk—are charged with the pure, nearly spiritual conviction to push beyond the world as it is, toward something purer and stranger—the world of art. The series features two of the season’s most innovative programs, as Megafaun & Fight the Big Bull team with partners to record a live album at Hayti, and the dazzling conceptual artist Ralph Lemon unveils a breathtaking investigation of transcendence and human connection.

Friday, October 1, 2010 | 8:00 pm
Friday, October 1, 2010 | 10:00 pm
Shaefer Lab Theater
$22 • Duke Students $5

Both Shows Sold Out.

General admission; doors open a half hour before showtime.

Made with a cello, guitar, and electronic swirls floating between harmony and dissonance, The Books’ handcrafted musical assemblages combine experimental chamber music and acoustic pop with fragmentary voices from junkshop cassettes. The mesmerizing Massachusetts duo has been tapped by Wilco as the next generation in art rock. But their "fragile mixture of field recordings, samples from radio broadcasts, and twanging folk instruments" (Q Magazine) puts them all by themselves, in "a genre of one" (Pitchfork). Two sets; each set ticketed separately.

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Special Event:

The Books: In Conversation
Saturday, October 2
Shaefer Theater, noon-1p
Free & open to the public