re: Dr. Zvonar

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

thanks for sharing that, Rick

Bob Beede and I are going to do a tribute piece in Richard's honor
for the closing performance at the Y2K5 festival , next Saturday evening, 
October 8th
at close to 10:00 p.m.     Bob is going to do some spoken word about 
Richard's life
while I ,humbly,  will play 'Richard' to Bob's 'Diamanda Galas' and 
process 
his vocals with my loopers.

Reading this made me remember the first time I met Richard.

Richard, Bob and I did an avante garde electronic performance together on 
the same bill in 1982
 which was the first time in my life that I ever 
looped........................it was under the influence of a brilliant 
(and 
then,very young) musician that I played with at the time,  Michael 
Haumesser 
who was the very first person
I ever heard who spliced his own lo fi cassette tapes loops to make music 
he 
called, "not noise"  (www.notnoise.com).  Not Michael and Jim Rutledge and 
I 
called ourselves "Tao Electrical" for that evening
as we were the rhythm section for a popular local new wave band called 
"Tao 
Chemical".

Bob Beede was my first professor of electronic music and he played on the 
bill with a good friend of his, the first PHD I ever met in music,  Dr. 
Zvonar.    I still have the poster for that one somewhere.

I remember that I felt sooooo grown up...................playing 'art' 
music..............electronic music..............with not only my 
professor 
but his PHD friend with the great reputation from lands to the south of 
us.......running
tape loops on a borrowed tube Echoplex with the erase head 
disengaged............leaving the stage at the break
between acts and letting all three of those tube Echoplexes keep running 
their rather ambient tapes out of sync with each other.

It was a heady time and I owe a lot to Dr. Z.    We all miss him.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rick Williamson
  To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
  Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:21 AM
  Subject: Dr. Zvonar


  audioMIDI.com put up a tribute page for Dr. Z.

  
http://www.audiomidi.com/classroom/cedge/cutting_edge_zvonar.cfm?CPID=1397