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Best Place to Satisfy Your Noise and Bubble-Tea Fix: KC Tea & Noodle

While several venues around town have hosted experimental music to varying degrees of success, the most unusual must be KC Tea & Noodle (363 S. Goodman St., 271-1420), an Asian restaurant and bubble tea parlor that has recently opened its doors to the Rochester Killharmonic Orchestra on Sunday nights starting at 8 p.m.

A cross between an open mic and a noisy group improvisation, Killharmonic night is actually organized around a structured format. Participants put their names down on a sign-up sheet, enter and exit the music in order, and follow a handful of pre-determined creative parameters. Of course, there’s plenty of chaos, atonality, and abrasion, but the results can also be surprisingly cohesive and atmospheric.

Even after a straightforward explanation from KC owner Jimmy Poon (“Sunday nights are slow, the musicians buy a lot of drinks, and they’re nice people.”), the fact that a middle-aged Korean couple has thrown their support behind this music still defies all conventional logic, and the contrast makes for a charmingly surreal experience in unintended ways. It’s safe to assume that life presents few chances to have your nerves fried by your local corps of avant-garde musicians while sucking huge, chewy tapioca pearls from a passion fruit soy milk tea drink with an oversized neon-colored plastic straw. Well here’s your chance. - BY SABY REYES-KULKARNI