Re: Bitchery vs. Fair Comment

[doug pieren <quail@e-z.net>]

MIvanBerk@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I think I mentioned this a couple of weeks back, but I had the odd 
>only-in-New
> York City experience of being bored by Fripp at the Bottom Line (most 
>likely
> the same set David Myers witnessed) immediately after hearing an 
>immensely
> exciting performance by looping violinist/LiSa manipulator Kaffe 
>Matthews.
> But that's my personal bias.  I felt that she was doing quite a bit more 
>(so
> far as loopy density goes) with quite a bit less gear, but then again, 
>what
> she was doing was far more compositionally oriented than what Fripp was 
>doing.
> Matthews would generally improvise a theme, then begin to alter it via
> processing and resampling, move on to new figures, and resurrect old 
>ones.
> Fripp's appeared to be less interested in dealing with the material he
> produced once it hit the Eventides and tc 2290s, doing his best to absent
> himself from the process to the point of walking offstage and letting the
> machines speak for themselves for a good amount of the performance.
> 
> I found this tiring, and left immediately after the flashbulb incident.  
>I
> must admit, however, that what did hold my interest about the 
>performance was
> the audience's reception of Fripp than by anything he was doing. Those 
>seated
> near me (at least the ones who didn't spend the evening competitively
> cataloguing their Crimson bootleg collections), seemed to find in the
> performance nothing but an affirmation of their solid belief in Fripp's
> virtuosity -- a performance that seemed (at least to me, and for better 
>or for
> worse) completely uninterested in providing such evidence.
> 
> Basically, yeah, he's boring -- and perhaps he means it.  But does that 
>make
> it better?
> 
> By the way, if our David Myers is the one who's recorded lots of
> "multiprocessor feedback" as Arcane Device, he produces some interesting 
>and
> unsettling loop music of his own and has every right to comment without
> possibility of damnation.
> 
> -mike
Mike - Hear! Hear! If this is the one and the same David Myers, it would
be cool to hear more about his interesting approaches to creating loop
music. David, if you're out there and it's really you, I'm a big fan and
really love your very original soundscapes...