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Synchronistically, I just completed a piece where I took raw live footage from an improv that I did at the Berlin Live Looping Festival last summer that used toy bells (which are music box-esque, I think). I just uploaded it as an mp3 to the files section of Loopers Delight. By the way, Michael Peters just sent me an URL for a fascinating talk with Bjork about her new CD. At her website, they just had a contest for people to win one of two of the three extant music boxes that she had custom made to begin her Vespertine concert. I heard that she just appeared under a simple spotlight and played the junglish piece that she composed and then had a music box company physically make her a music box that played the composition. It's beautiful and on the Vestpertine CD. Probably the first time in pop history that an artist merely played a music box (without singing). I also heard that with older music boxes that some of the metal tines are held in by tiny screws which allows one to un screw them and rearrange them so that the rhythm of the piece stays the same but the melody is different............. allowing for a kind of 'random' but constrained 'improvisation'. Music boxes are really mechanical loopers, aren't they? I just discovered a Sesame Street jack in the box in my collection that plays 'Pop Goes the Weasel". Just last night I accidentally started turning the handle backwards and, lo and behold, I can play the piece backwards at my own speed. It sounds really beautiful and melancholy. I think I'll do a piece with it for my own 30 minute slot at the Y2K4 International Live Looping Festival on October 8th, 9th and 10th in Santa Cruz. Loopers are coming from as far away as Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Wales and possibly Germany as well as from all over the West Coast and a few brave souls flying in from the rest of the country. No details yet, but pass the word. I'll officially announce for submissions in about a week when I'm in a place to handle them............lol.