Re: Soundscapes/Frippertronics debate finale

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I have one last thing to say on this topic:

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Oh yeah, and I invented the Rutles!  Yeah they stole it from me!  Frank 
Sinatra too!  Yeah!  I invented Frank Sinartra!

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 08:46 PM, Peter Badore wrote:

> To Hedawa7 for the last time:
>
> 1.  I refuse to capitalize your entire name in a childish effort to 
> boost
> your ego.  The heading doesn't do so, and neither will I.
>
> 2.  > again, i understood you to mean 'all' or 'most' loopists, not just
> those
>> arising from the legions of robert's quasi-disciples.
> You still think I'm calling every looper a soundscaper.  I don't know 
> how
> you got started with that crap.  Please read my original message again
> carefully and with consideration this time, if you still have it on 
> file.  I
> was making a simple observation about a few of my fellow 
> "quasi-disciples".
> Talk about minor ignorance!  I have to blow my nose, now.
>
> 3.  > while idiosyncratic 'synthesis/incorporation' may well include 
> some
> elements
>> & traces of 'innovation', i generally think of the word 'innovation' as
>> implying an actual genesis:birth of something 'new';
> Webster's defines "innovation":  "1.  the act or process of innovating; 
> 2.
> something newly introduced; new method, custom, device, etc.; change in 
> the
> way of doing things".  Think about that last part:  "change in the way 
> of
> doing things."  My argument stands.  You can only work with what you 
> have,
> but you can take it to another level.  That's how life works.
>
> 4.  > .....seems to me that it's pretty common in the art/music world 
> for
> highly
>> visible 'synthesisers' to become regarded as innovators, due in large 
>> part
> to
>> baseline consensus realities created by mass-distributed 'secondary'
> media,
>> eg advertisements, magazines, television events, et al, and agreed 
>> upon,
> to
>> some degree, 'by default': the baseline.
>> (which also implies that the american concept of 'rugged individualism'
> is,
>> well, kinda busted..... at least at the baseline).
>> *-)
>> sorry, but:
>> whaddya think?
> I think synthesizers are highly innovated, but everything depends on the
> player.  A car is only as good as the driver.  I don't give a damn what 
> the
> media portrays, but I also don't give a damn about people who ignore
> changing times.  I was one of the latter for a ten-year period:  
> Nothing but
> oldies rock and hard bop, and that followed a period where I had started
> taking an interest in electronic music for a short period of time.  Too
> complicated to go into, but I practically had to start all over again 
> when I
> woke up (hey, I'm not perfect, either!).  But I digress.  I still face 
> a lot
> of poo-pooing about my "sudden change of character", as described by 
> several
> people.  I like my GR-33 and other new effects, but to each one's own.
> Although I'm aware of the control few people have over it, I grow tired 
> of
> the media being blamed for everything.  For crying out loud, 2001 is 
> almost
> over!  Move on!
>
>
> 5.  >storytime:
>> some years ago, i was playing w/a -errrmmmm- 'major' artist.
>> we were in rehearsal, and at one point, he was playing guitar;
>> i approached him to find out the fingering/inversion of the chord that 
>> he
> was
>> playing.
>> i said: 'so, what exactly are ya playing, there?'
>> he seemed to slightly misinterpret my intention, and replied (nearly
>> fatuously):
>> 'isn't this a nice chord? i invented it, last night'.
>> my rejoinder was: 'actually, it sounds like a G-Maj triad over Eb, or 
>> an
>> EbMaj7, b13, contextually', but
>> he turned away, non-plussed, obviously self-satisfied with his recent
>> invention.
> Here you have my sympathy, but I've learned over the years it's useless 
> to
> try and point these things out.  We all have egos and you just gotta go 
> with
> the flow.  Did you compliment him on his chord?
>
>
> 6.  > okay, then i'm making 'elecTORNica', from here on out.....
> HUH???
>
> 7.  (My quote)   >I also hope Soundscapes is becoming the new
>>> fashionable term as "ambient" has now lost its original meaning when 
>>> Eno
>>> first conceived it.
> (Yours)  > neither of the  2 terms  has any meaning for me, anymore,
> personally:
>> s'just a buncha presumably organised verbal blather, bleached of 
>> meaning
> by a
>> largely numb audience painfully over-eager to define (and be enslaved 
>> by)
>> idioms.
>  Whatever.  I was joking, y'know.
>
> 8.  Finally, I couldn't get the damned Repeater to work!  Now I gotta go
> back tomorrow!
>
> No hard feelings but I don't deny my bluntness,
> PB
>