Re:The Story of our Age/Percussion/Jamman Midi

[KRosser414@aol.com]

Sorry for the mix of several different subjects at once ...

The "Story of our Age" - our age has as many stories as there are people
telling them.  I think any attempt to objectively generalize about society 
at
large falls short and paradoxically succeeds in saying a lot specifically
about one person (...the one doing the generalizing that is).  Just $.02 
from
my corner of the universe...

Speaking of looped/processed percussion, I've been listening to the new 
Soul
Coughing, "El Oso", lately and there seems to be quite a bit of this 
happening
on there.  Anyone know exactly what's being done on some of this?  Some 
sounds
suspiciously like drum machines through a fuzzbox (which is a cool enough
sound), but there's quite a lot of interesting textural/rhythmic stuff on 
this
that I can't quite place, at least to my ears.

JamMan owners, a question:  I'm using a Ground Control Midi controller 
with it
which works fine, but it seems a lot to lug around and take up a lot of 
floor
space when I'm only using it to access a couple functions.  Any one 
experiment
with using one of those double footswitch Digitech PDS 3500's programmed to
control the loop fade functions, for instance (the only functions I really
regret they didn't stick on the front panel)?  If it works, I see these 
thing
used for quite cheap ($35-$50) fairly often and it would sure be easy to 
just
stick that on the floor next to the Tap/Bypass footswitch Lexicon provides 
for
most of what I need.  Being the Midiot that I am, I'm wondering if some 
other
curious soul out there has tried it and could help point the way...

Finally, I'm going to be up in Oakland Friday Nov. 13 doing some 
looping/free
improv on guitar & pipa with tuba player Tom Heasley.  Tom & I also just
recorded a CD with Don Preston (piano & electronics) & Bobby Bradford 
(cornet)
that has some pretty heavy looping content on my part that Tom is 
negotiating
release on as we speak.  Anyone interested in more details about the show 
or
the CD when available please contact me offlist (krosser414@aol.com)

Thanks,

Ken