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Hey everyone, just got back from night one at the Found Object festival. I think it was a big success - well worth the sacrifice of a microphone, a microphone holding device and several exploded cans of coke. Moe! opened up with a very energetic set of unaltered sounds run directly through the microphone. He banged it on stuff, smacked things together, broke somebody's hot dog, and in general gave us an excellent opening packed full of non-stop excitement. Bitchin! Ven Voisey then followed, utlizing an edp, a tape machine, and several homemade contact mics. For the major musical element, he brought in a contraption with spinning motor brushes that he operated against several of the objects (bike frame, coke cans, large metal pipe) to create sustained noisy drones. This was interspersed with the sounds of a contact miked San Francisco Chronicle. At one point, he handed out several of the louder objects to audience members to contribute. I was coerced into riding the pogo stick, and ride it I did. Ernesto's set consisted specifically of the textures specifically created by rubbing the microphone against the rough surfaces strewn about him. Some really interesting circular patterns came up with the 6 pack (now a 4 pack) of coke, the springy kitty toy, and pizza box. Then a couple guys came off the street and gave us free Red Bulls just for the heck of it. Thanks guys. SKIZMZ (pronounced "Skiz'ums" rather than "Skiz Mizz") was a group of four musicians from the "Friday Night Music" recording sessions down in the Menlo Park area. They created some rather musical rhythms by combining percussion on louder metal objects with microphoned plastic bottles and scruncing small things. (Think of Einsturzende Neubauten and Stomp holding hands, only without Blixa jumping in the air doing spin kicks.) At one point, the smashing of several cans of soft drink occurred. My looks of horror were pretty much an overreaction. The mess was surprisingly easy to clean up. My apologies and thanks to the audience members who were willing to get their object submissions back sticky for the cause of music making. Also thanks to the store across the street for their unbeatable prices on quality mops. In the end, I felt guilty for stressing about the mess. 10 minutes later it was just "the funny thing that happened that night". It was quite good to have them play, and they bought me a cheeseburger. (Thanks guys.) Audiosports (Alberto Forero) prepared for his set by loading sounds of the remaining dry objects while the rest of us were de-stickifying the main stage area. By the time he started, he already had a supply of the object sounds loaded into his two sequencers, and he turned out a fine set of rhythmic musique concrete by using the rhythmic & pitch changing capabilities of those, as well as some guitar squashboxes. Way to go Alberto! We had a decent crowd of people (25-30) show up. Some great object submissions, too. Tomorrow (Friday) night we have Jon Wagner, Mark Sottilaro, myself, Jeremiah Moore and Rick Walker (in that order). As a whole, the show is probably going to have a lot more electronic manipulation and real-time sampling/looping than tonight's. 964 Natoma is a great space too. It's a big warehouse space with lots of futon seating, and the servingment of drinks. If you need directions, drop me an email, or since I'll be in and out most of the day, type the address into maps.yahoo.com. It's about 1.5 blocks from Market and Van Ness. (That's in San Francisco, at 8:00.) Matt Davignon _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com