Re: transistor radios Re: Re: bose pa speaker thingie

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Mark wrote:
"I always wanted to do a show where people brought (or
were lent) small FM radios with headphones and instead
of a traditional PA I did a small FM broadcast at a
specific frequency"


I saw an awesome show in Santa Cruz with the Flaming Lips, where they 
passed 
out
little fm radios with open ear headphones.
they had two mixing engineers:   one, to do the house sound and one to do 
a 
completely different mix (replete with different effects or so it seemed 
as 
I was unable to verify it).

the cool thing was that the open ear headphones let the house mix in 
perfectly so you go a blend unless you turned up the volume to drown it 
out.

At one point I left Palookaville (damn, I miss that creative defunct 
venue) 
and went to
Starfucks to get some coffee.  I listened to the concert the whole way 
down 
the block, while I ordered and all the way back because the range of the 
fm 
transmission was long enough.
It was very, very cool

On the same bill, a guy did one of the most beautiful noise symphonies 
I've 
ever heard, using 11 circuit bent speak and spells.  It lasted about 25 
minutes and was just amazingly beautiful and he just tweaked noise the 
whole 
time.

I thought that the Flaming Lips were so creative and daring to try such a 
cool thing and to have such an unusual and creative opening act.

I hear they did a similar thing with car cassettes where they got a whole 
lot of cars together
(I think it was at a drive in theatre) with different interlocking 
cassette 
parts; handed them out to each car and then synchronized the playing of 
the 
'piece' so that everyone could walk around listening to the piece of music 
with amazing spatiality..............how friggin' clever?