Re: Re: stratoculture live at the keene music festival

[michael sintros <mbsintros@yahoo.com>]

my point was not to imply that music not created with
electronic equipment is boring or substandard.  i love
traditional instruments and make use of them more than
i do electronic equipment. 

in my OPINION, most (not all) of the acts that played
at the festival were rather tame.  that's not to say
they were bad, but i personally look for more
inventiveness and experimentation in the music i
listen to.  if you like the tried and true, that's
your deal.  

i think it's great that the music festival exists in
keene and i am personally friends with the creator and
organizer of the event.  i hope in the future it will
continue and that more of the non-mainstream musicians
(i know they exist here) will start coming out of the
woodwork to play there.  so i wouldn't waste too much
of your time being pissed because i enjoy more musical
variation than the rather sheltered area of keene has
to offer.  

i will check out your stuff as well.  


--- jim and mell <jimandmell@webryders.net> wrote:

> so........
> 
> I played at the Keene Music Festival and performed
> my regular acoustic folk
> set. I subscribe to this list because I also perform
> ambient music using
> Reason and Ableton Live, and have learned a  lot and
> heard a lot of great
> music by listening to the different artists that
> post to this list.
> 
> For those that don't know, the Keene Music Festival
> is a completely free
> music Festival (no admission charges and no one gets
> paid) with a slew of
> different stages set up, on literally the main
> street of Keene, NH. They
> have assigned stages and open mic spots, where
> anyone can just sign up on
> that day and play. It's a great concept and this
> year is the 6 th year of
> the festivals existance. I know it's something I
> look forward to
> participating in every year. In my opinion the best
> part of the festival is
> that they have no prejudices on what type of music
> is performed. The list of
> bands from this year is here.
> 
> http://www.keenemusicfestival.com/times.html
> 
> 
> It's a pretty diverse group of musicians, who i
> seriously doubt anyone would
> call boring or ordinary.
> 
> 
> I have to admit I was pretty ripped when I read that
> comment this morning. I
> have been playing music since I was 15 ( I'm in my
> early 40's now) and very
> much take offense to have someone make
> generalizations about fellow
> musicians and the music they create, regardless of
> the genre of the music.
> Does it really matter how I'm making music, if I'm
> using conventional
> instruments like acoustic guitar and voice or using
> non-traditional
> instruments like effects and samplers as long as I'm
> creating
> something?
> 
> 
> Was (all of the music at the festival) something I
> would listen to at my
> house? probably not, but it certainly wasn't boring
> or ordinary.
> 
> 
> Now I'm going to download your two sets to see what
> they sound like.
> 
> 
> My webpage is here
> 
>
http://web.mac.com/jimbutlermusic/iWeb/Site/Home.html
> 
> some of my ambient music is here
> 
>
http://music.download.com/jimbutler/3600-8357_32-100851197.html?tag=listing_song_artist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peace..
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "michael sintros" <mbsintros@yahoo.com>
> To: <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:24 AM
> Subject: stratoculture live at the keene music
> festival
> 
> 
> > my friend and i recently performed at a local
> music
> > festival, mostly dominated by "ordinary" (e.g.
> boring)
> > music.  we weren't scheduled to play but we set up
> > anyways and played two approximately hour-long
> sets of
> > experimental electronic music.
> >
> > for the show, my friend played a turntable and a
> kaoss
> > pad, and i took his outputs and used them as
> fodder
> > for loops and sampling and general live sound
> > creation, using an rc-20xl, a bunch of guitar
> pedals
> > and an old akai s2000 (with no samples loaded into
> it
> > initially, i used it essentially as a multitimbral
> > looper / sound generator).
> >
> > i would say the style is a kind of mix of
> psychedelic
> > dark ambient industrial noise, etc.  you be the
> judge.
> > so far 5 segments (the first performance)
> uploaded,
> > the next 4 (from the second performance) to come.
> > the url is www.soundclick.com/stratoculture
> >
> > feel free to comment good or bad.  enjoy,
> >
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