Re: Looping Laurie Anderson

[pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com]

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