The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee provides a listening experience unlike any other in America. At the 2017 edition, Norwegian drone musician Deathprod blasted deafening noise inside a 1920s theater listed in the National Register of Historic Places, while the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra played Bach on the floor of a rock club. Cell phones got alerts that a
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Big Ears 2017: Where Jeff Tweedy Is Noise Star, Symphony Plays on Floor