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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 >From lists@slip.net Thu Sep 18 08:49:20 1997 >Received: from lists by ferret with local (Exim 1.62 #4) > id 0xBipP-0002jF-00; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:49:15 -0700 >Message-Id: <v01510101b04702344ab4@[128.193.5.233]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:51:17 -0800 >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) >Subject: Re: music >Resent-Message-ID: <"Prx6SB.A.-UC.mzUI0"@ferret> >Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >X-Mailing-List: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> archive/latest/561 >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: SmartList <lists@slip.net> >Resent-To: alicecrsh@hotmail.com >Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:49:15 -0700 > >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 >________________________________________________________ > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com