RE: BOSTON LOOPFEST

["Michael LaMeyer" <m.lameyer@verizon.net>]

BTW, I accedentally reveresed the order of the below:

Notnoise = Michael Haumesser
Repeatpeak = Philip Lampe

Sorry, a little obsessive detail there ...

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael LaMeyer [mailto:m.lameyer@verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: BOSTON LOOPFEST
> 
> 
> Just finally getting a chance to post following an eventful 
> week.  We had a
> very successful and satisfying two days of loop music last 
> week!!  Woohoo!!
> Thanks to all of the performers and everyone who helped pull this off!
> Frankly, I had a blast ... and learned a lot.
> 
> January 30, 2003
> Michael LaMeyer
> My birthday and first live looping performance, a very fun 
> and crazy day for
> me.  I'll leave an objective review for others to make, 
> although I will say
> that I'm not sure at all that I want to let the dat of this 
> out into the
> public ;-)  I found the video more interesting, particularily 
> the footage at
> the end where I accidentally turned on the metronome on my 
> Repeater (which,
> as any Repeater owner will know, produces a very loud and 
> distinct click
> track).  I had to freeze frame the footage to get a good 
> gander of the look
> on my face when I looked over at Peter behind the board with the most
> wonderful WTF?!?! expression, guitar pick in mouth and all.  
> That had me
> laughing and crying for a good long time.  I also apparently 
> went well over
> my time allotment, I was quite a flake that day ... sorry guys. :-\
> 
> Jon Wobesky with Jonathan Byerly
> I thoughoughly enjoyed this exploration ... these two brought 
> two suitcases
> of toys plus bass, sax, and sundry for a found sound salad 
> the likes of
> which I haven't heard since I saw Rick's day-glo shenanigans 
> ... and I don't
> anyone there had seen a barbie doll used quite like that before ;-)
> 
> Ghost7 (Dan Soltzberg)
> Unfortunately I only caught the last portion of Dan's solo 
> bass looping set
> as I had to strike my rig and drop it off at home, so Jeff or Peter or
> someone else will need to give a more informed description.  
> But what I
> caught was a lot of fun.  Dan was really into exploring the 
> range of tones
> he could get out of his intrument, bass burbles, overdriven lead,
> scatch-n-slide bass-as-sound-installation ... I'd like to 
> hear more, so good
> thing for me that he plays locally.
> 
> Dave Dunbar
> Peter got to get out from behind the board and sit down, as 
> Dave REALLY
> didn't need any amplification from us! ;-)  I think the most 
> apt description
> I heard of his set was "fluttering kettlestorms".  Dave 
> played solo electric
> guitar through sundry pedals + boomerang into two amps (a 
> musicman and ... I
> can't remember the other) and had us laughing aloud in 
> delight as he threw
> wailing, pitch-shifted, pan-tremeloed layers of really peaky 
> guitar around
> the room.  People were laughing outloud in delight as we all 
> covered out
> ears and looked about in shock at the way Dave was moving the 
> air around.  A
> perfect closer for the first night.
> 
> Unfortunately, I didn't find the dat's I bought for the shows 
> until Friday,
> and all I had were 4 30 minute dats I scrounged up at the 
> last minute for
> Thursday.  We have complete DV footage of the shows (multiple footage
> actually), but I think all of Thursday's performances didn't 
> fit on the
> tapes. :-(  Friday I had my shit together better, found my 
> tapes, and got
> complete audio of day 2.
> 
> January 31, 2003
> David Kirkdorfer/UNDO
> Right away we were treated to some delicious looping from 
> David.  One member
> of the audience that I spoke with, who was just getting introduced to
> looping via our show, was plainly struck by the metaphor of looping as
> 'painting with sound' during David's set (and she'd never 
> even heard of
> David Torn's instructional video! ;-), she remarked that 
> watching him play
> was a very similar experience for her to watching someone 
> paint.  Melodic
> swells intermingled with gated, percusive beds, and transformed into a
> blazing anthem when Jonathan LaMaster joined David on stage 
> for a brief duo
> before a segue into his own set.  We also caught some of David and
> Jonathan's sound check on tape, which was some beautiful 
> stuff, idle or not.
> I only regret that I misprounounced his last name in the 
> introduction ...
> (sorry David)
> 
> Jonathan LaMaster
> Jonathan began his set looping a 6-string electric violin 
> (I'm pretty sure
> there's a real name for this intrument, but I never caught what it was
> called) and this sounded just gorgeous to me.  I thought I caught both
> celtic and eastern european?/middle-eastern? motifs in his 
> playing, but I'm
> not necessarily an informed opinon here, Jonathan? Am I 
> making this up? ;-)
> He interspersed his bowed string looping with some subtle, atmospheric
> electric guitar looping and singing in a more traditional song format
> (imagine that at a looping show! ;-).  He closed with a piece 
> performed on a
> BOSS sample toy with pre-reorded loops featuring vocal snippets of the
> leader of our country.  It was great to hear the diversity.
> 
> Notnoise vs. Repeatpeak (Philip Lampe and Michael Haumesser)
> Absolutely gorgeous set.  This was definitely one of the 
> highlights for me.
> I'd heard Philip play before but he and Michael just blended perfectly
> together.  It was very difficult to determine who was 
> orginating some of the
> tones.  Philip played Audiomulch and an acoustic sitar 
> processed through a
> VG-8!!!  Far out is all I have to say.  Michael had an array 
> of keyboards
> and pedals, and ALSO played guitar.  I could see his EDP, but 
> I'm not at all
> certain if he wasn't looping with anything else.  An apparent 
> MIDI routing
> issue at one point did little to distract from the 
> performance from me.  A
> blissful set.
> 
> RandomSalt (Jeffrey Lomas)
> Boston Loopfest list-serv master and one of the three folks central to
> putting this all together, Jeff did a solo acoustic guitar 
> set looping a
> REALLY nice Taylor and a handful of acoustic percussion 
> through an EDP and
> put on a really animated show (unfortunately, my DV ran out 
> of tape, so I
> didn't get any of his set on video, but at least I had plenty 
> of DAT tapes
> ... if it ain't one thing ...) A perfect way to end the 2nd night!
> 
> Peter, Jeff, and I are catching up this week to do a post 
> loopfest follow
> up, collect as much of the media as we can so we can burn 
> some copies for
> the artists, and talk about what's next.  It sounds like we 
> have a good
> chance to get a regular thing happening at the Zeitgeist and 
> we'll be sure
> to let you know what's up with that.  Also, if anyone wants 
> to help us out
> with such an endeavor, Jeff's got an email address you can send to:
> loopme@randomsalt.com
> 
> Thanks again to everyone who showed up to play and/or 
> listen!!  Looking
> forward to the next one ...
> 
> Love,
> 
> Mike
> 
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