re: dildos and personal fans

["r. dennis" <tonobung@panix.com>]

for christmas, try the norelco personal cordless shaver.

no kidding.

a:c


On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Rick Walker wrote:

>  
> david wrote:
> 
> i used a 'vibrator', a few times in the early 80's, but..... ummm.....
> didn't
> get so much musicality from that; 'twas fun to see the front-row's
> reaction,
> though. also: 'personal fans' can be kinda nice, both sonically &, add'ly
> as a
> mechanised-pick/'stringdriver'.
> best,
> dt / SPLaTTeRCeLL
>  
> 
> I'm not a guitarist (although I use one in my live looping shows), I'm a
> texturalist and found sound aficianado who comes from a rhytmic
> background (world percussion and trapset originally).   I just wanted to
> say that I use variable speed dildos
> to control simple melodies through pickups (and sometimes just through
> regular microphones). You usually can get a very simple two or three note
> melody out of one.
> I recently did a local cable access television show where I played 28
> minutes of music without using one conventional insturment (well, I used
> a balines suling once) and my wife at the last moment talked me out of
> doing a looping piece only using dildos.......family values and all)
>     I also use personal fans in a piece of music called DAYGLO
> TRANSLUCENT LIME GREEN PLASTIC as one of the rhythmic elements. If you
> blow burst of air through the fan onto a mic you can get very techno
> sounding timbre going, rhytmically which can get pretty sophisticated if
> you use several fans with different 'fundamental' pitches.
> I also use several sometimes as different pitched drones. It is
> particularly great when batteries are just about out of poop because the
> oscillations are slower and , if you are lucky, you can hear the
> modulation of the individual blades.  This, alas, does, not work through
> pickups.
> Another fun 'preparation' of the guitar I've experimented with (outside
> of the de riguer alligator clips, knives and forks) is taking one of
> those large steel chinese therapeutic balls (you know, the ones in the
> import stores that have beautiful random chimes in them.
> and roll them down the strings forwards or away from the pick ups.   I
> found these great blue plastic martini skewers with small round balls at
> the end which I use to play the strings directly over the pickups while
> the ball rolls.........kind of a slide, fretless gamelan kind of
> thing.........all of this loops wonderfully (he says, bringing it all
> back to the topic ; - )
> stay  creative,   Rick (humbly AKA  Loop.pooL)
>