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Re: punk loops (was OT(minutemen))
At 5:40 PM +0000 3/4/03, Steve Lawson wrote:
>any punk bands who are looping? ;o)
Back in 1978-79 I played bass in an avant-punk band called Klang.
Most of us were graduate students in composition (our drummer was a
surfer and undergraduate recording major). Our music was fast and
odd, blending punk with ideas and techniques from avant garde music:
minimalism, polytonality, phasing, cut-up, quotation and
appropriation, extended vocal techniques, multiple tempo layers, etc.
Most of the material was original (out sole cover was the Souxie
cover "Nicotine Stain"), though we sometimes appropriated large
chunks from existing songs. A typical example of this was "Robots,"
which contained the entire organ solo from "Light My Fire," albeit
over different chord changes. We didn't do any looping per se, but
used some techniques of pattern music such as gradual introduction of
phasing between instruments. We also used fragmentation and
permutation techniques in a song based on the Brion Gysin poem "I Am
That I Am."
http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/dreamachine/i_am.html
Klang was also the only band I know of to have no less than two songs
inspired by Karel Capek.
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