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At 8:01 AM -0400 6/27/03, ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote: >My comment was not to say that he was influenced by these folks but >that his music sort of sounded like this to me a little bit. These were >the only other reference points I had . . . at the time. I hadn't heard >a lot at the time. I was probably responding more to my own ruminations about influence, since at by time I was living with Paul (1977-79) is was already familiar with his East Bay musical milieu. There was a lot of performance with tape delay at Mills and elsewhere, and there was a strong influence by Don Buchla and Allen Strange on the synthesizer side. >Now that you mention Reich, I'd say sure! The piece also sounded a bit >like Steven's "Electric Counterpoint"...My only exposure to >Reich then was "Music for 18 Musicians" and my unsophisticated ear >did not catch a connection. Paul listened to a lot of Reich and a lot of his earlier music showed that. In 1978 Steve Reich produced a series of concerts in New York and Paul's music was featured. >Nor was I very familiar with Riley at that time -- though I'd heard >a lot about "In C" i'd never heard the piece itself (I'm all too >embarrassed to admit). I was lucky - a friend of mine who was the music director of WBCN in Boston played me "Rainbow in Curved Air" right when it came out. Riley was the biggest influence on a small group of us in Santa Cruz in 1975-77. We'd typically set up a pair of TEAC 4-track decks in the Time Lag Accumulator configuration and improvise what we called "pattern music." I don't recall hearing any Fripp-Eno until later on. >Actually I saw Daniel Lentz on the same day as the Dresher concert. Lentz is very important within the West Coast art music scene, but not so influential on the post-Fripp crowd. >UCSB's "College of Creative Studies" and the Music Academy of the >West in Montecito had lots of interesting people flowing through >them continually. Some interesting work in synthesis and spatial music is being done at UCSB. The Music Academy was a major step in my partner Pam's musical life - she went there right out of high school. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com