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Nemoguitt@aol.com wrote: > about a week ago, i went and saw ed chang "spin 17" at a show here in > pittsburgh, wonderfully wild and wacky, great on the edge of your seat >music, > and i might add, ed is a really nice fellow......the last group on the >show > was a pittsburgh based band, "organization re information", now on tour >with > "man or astro-man".....they "ori" used nothing but power macs. refering >back > to some older posts, it was really neat to see two guys and a gal >standing > there playing computer keyboards....there was a good deal of looping >going on > and the sounds (samples) were great, all of this done in real >time....they > were using their own soft-ware, ive no idea as to what it was because i >am > totally computer ill-literate. even though their music sounded like a >group of > people playing synths sans keyboards it was a treat....with all this talk > about computer based loopers, if anyone would be interested in getting in > touch with these folks i will try to find their e-mail address, they may >be > able share some ideas as to what they are using, let me >know...........michael this reminds me of a group called skot i saw at the fuse98 *typography* conference last spring in san francisco; two or three people at high-end workstations producing not only amazing sampled/looped soundscapes but realtime video projections; their brief as follows: tina frank works in vienna as a graphic designer (inwirements) and runs an internet agency (u.r.l.), mathias gmachi is a member of farmers manual, whose latest recordings, "explorers_we" have just been released by the or label in london. as skot, frank and gmachi have directed several music videos for the mego label; they have performed at the 1997 ars electronica festival, the 1997 viennale, and will create live projections for this year's sonar music festival in barcelona. interesting work in a very dada/cut-up (although i'm sure they wouldn't describe it that way) vein. lance g.