Minimalist keyboardist/composer Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie played last night along with screenings of Maya Deren’s Meshes of an Afternoon and other non-linear short films that appeared to be completed before the psychedelic era to a rapt audience at the Egyptian.

While Budd/Guthrie’s music definitely achieved a spacious, vaporous, beauty and dewy pathos (the phrase “diaphanous ambience”� kept popping into my head), it lacked significant variation from piece to piece. The players seemed not to be accompanying the images on screen so much as locking into each other’s headspaces and trading impressionistic dapples (Budd) and reflective spangles (Guthrie). Neither instrumentalist stretched beyond his well-known stylistic tics (as lovely as they are), resulting in music of a meditative grandeur that ultimately left this listener mildly underwhelmed.