Re: Looping Laurie Anderson

[pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com]

At 04:36 PM 10/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Before aone else errs in their opinion of when the "little ladies"
>will finally get into looping, you might want to pick up a book or
>learn how to read.
>
>Pauline Oliveros created looping as we know it today.
>A women. (Gasp!) In 1966, at Mills College.
>
>Eno knew this, Terry Riley new this. Geesh.
>
>Larry

Hey Larry,

Was that comment directed towards me personally?  

Paolo

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 4:18 PM
>Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson
>
>
>>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
>>
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