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Re: music



have u heard Scorn? on Invisible records. nice minimalist stuff with an 
almost drum-nbass thing going. its done by the drummer from napa;m death 
( but dont let this fool u)
A

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>Kim Flint wrote:
>>So how about this, what music are you all listening to these days? 
Which
>>artists are inspiring you for looping or otherwise? If I go to the 
record
>>store on Saturday, what should I get?
>>
>I've been listening to "As Is", by We, on Asphodel, quite a lot lately.
>They're part of the New York "illbient" scene. The first track mixes 
some
>very cool Rhodes piano loops with some extremely bass heavey (I mean
>really, the first drum kick made my stereo amp shut down the first time 
I
>played it) heavey drum 'n bass, it's almost like a d 'n b remix of "In 
A
>Silent Way". Also, Funki Porcini's "Love, Pussycats & Car Wrecks" is
>another recent fave. I really think that the jazz/drum 'n bass fusion 
thing
>is finally producing some mature works, with this disc and the recent
>Squarepusher stuff.
>
>Another very nice CD I've been listening to almost daily is Choying 
Drolma
>and Steve Tibbetts "Cho", on Rykodisc. Drolma is a Tibetan Buddhist 
nun,
>and she was recorded singing traditional songs at her monastery in the
>Himalayas. Then Tibbetts added various guitars and processing, with a 
few
>other western musicians on percussion and strings. This disc is not
>particularly loop-based, but it's deeply beautiful, Tibbetts displays
>remarkable restraint and respect for the source materials.
>
>Also, I've been pulling out my old lps of synthesizer music from the 
'60's
>a lot lately, Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon" and "The 
Wild
>Bull" in particular. I'm amazed at how advanced some of this stuff is,
>there's been very little synth music that approaches this, either 
sonically
>or compositionally, in the 30 years since it was recorded.
>
>>Here's another one we haven't delved into for a long time: What is it 
about
>>looping that makes it interesting, fun, musical?  Why do we want to do 
it?
>>Why does it show up in so many types of music? Is it something in 
human
>>nature, learned from culture, what?
>>
>Jeez, Kim, why do you have to ask the hard questions, can't we just go 
back
>to talking about 3rd cousin sync?
>
>A few weeks ago, I found in a box of non-working music gear an Ibanez
>analog delay pedal I bought in 1979. This was my first "looping" 
device, I
>used it for, among other things, making my monophonic synths play 
chords by
>arpeggiatting them in time with the echos. I replaced a pot and put new
>batteries in it and it still works.
>
>I was always fascinated by the sound that remained after I stopped 
playing,
>it seemed to be an entity of it's own, and this led me to experiment 
with
>just about every delay technology, from tape looping to digital delays 
to
>samplers to the JamMan. Every once in a while, I come up with a loop so
>complete in itself that it just doesn't need anything else, and I'll 
leave
>it playing in the studio for hours, sometimes for days, checking in 
with it
>every now and again.
>
>Looping acts like a microscope looking into sound events. A loop lets 
you
>hear, through repetition, details of a small piece of sound that would 
have
>been missed when it was first sounded. Not all sounds can take this
>scrutiny, but when you find one that does, the effect is almost 
magical.
>
>Anyway, this is some of what keeps me looping...
>
>
>________________________________________________________
>Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org  : www.peak.org/~improv/
>
>"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
>gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
>your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
>type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
>together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
>together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
>                                            -Sun Ra
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