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No it wasn't. It was just an FYI. - Larry -----Original Message----- From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson >At 04:36 PM 10/30/99 -0400, you wrote: >>Before aone else errs in their opinion of when the "little ladies" >>will finally get into looping, you might want to pick up a book or >>learn how to read. >> >>Pauline Oliveros created looping as we know it today. >>A women. (Gasp!) In 1966, at Mills College. >> >>Eno knew this, Terry Riley new this. Geesh. >> >>Larry > >Hey Larry, > >Was that comment directed towards me personally? > >Paolo > >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com> >>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >>Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 4:18 PM >>Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson >> >> >>>I once watched a concert by a woman from Mills College. She had a >velvet >>>glove that she wired up herself. It had sensors for each of her >fingers. >>>It could also sense the distance from another sensor in her belt buckle and >>>yet another sensor attached to one of her shoes. This glove was driving a >>>gigantic Max patch on her Powerbook which in turn was driving a couple >of >>>samplers and a synth. She said she built her velvet glove controller >>>because she wanted a more feminine alternative to the videogame Powergloves >>>(I think by Mattel) that other experimental musicians were using. She >>>would perform by making motions with her gloved hand while reciting poetry >>>or prose. >>> >>>I don't know why I didn't ask her when I had the chance her thoughts on the >>>male-female ratio in the avant garde music scene. Then again, women >were >>>always in the minority in all the engineering classes I took in college. >>> >>>Paolo >>> >>> >> >> > >