[email protected] VOLUME CXI, NUMBER 16 PASADENA , CALIFORNIA MAR C H 8, 2010 Photo by Jonathan Tsai Photo by Jonathan Music Groups Perform at Intercollegiate Festivals Fluid Dynamics and but has in recent years been a sophomore Timothy Wu of FD joint project of OoC and Fluid was singing “Accidentally in Out of Context Dynamics. Seven groups from Love” by the Counting Crows four different schools in the area for which he recently won the By Rick Paul attended the concert. In addition best soloist award at USC’s STAFF WRITER to OoC and FD, the other groups a cappella festival, Absolut. included the Shades and Aca- OoC also competed at the In- ternational Championship of A Approximately two hundred sola from Claremont, VPR and Midnight Echo from California Cappella (ICCA), a prestigious people packed in to Dabney Hall event in the world of intercolle- on the Caltech campus last Sat- State University Northridge, and the Trojan Men from USC. giate a cappella. Although they urday to listen to live a cappella did not win the competition, performances of over two dozen Andy Matuschak, the director of Caltech’s a cappella group Fluid Dynamics performs at the Love Sucks Fluid Dynamics, observed that OoC members enjoyed the op- hits celebrating (and denigrat- portunity to learn from some of concert last Saturday. ing) love in all its varied guises. attendance at a cappella events has steadily increased over the the top groups in collegiate a Some of the performances in- cappella. Class taught by Richard Sparks, and listen to every choir’s perfor- cluded Kelly Clarkson’s “My past few years due to the efforts a Professor of Music at the Uni- mance, (an ordeal which lasted Life Would Suck Without You”, of both OoC and FD to raise the Glee Club versity of North Texas and adju- around three hours) everyone was Duffy’s “Mercy”, and a mashup profile of a cappella on campus.