Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using laptops for music"

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

"Hell, any science grad student will tell you that the majority of
experiments fail..."

Hee hee! Good one...
~Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: David Trenkel <improv@peak.org>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 10/27/2005 1:34:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta:
using laptops for music"
>
> On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, at 08:36 PM, Kris Hartung wrote:
>
> > Oh yes, another poor and innocent virgin listener, violated by the  
> > horrific
> > maw of experimental music...and of course, he feels compelled to share 
> 
> > his
> > experience with the world.  :)
>
> Well, he is a critic, after all :-)
>
> Actually, I think he gives a fairly open-minded assessment of the  
> performances, and, having seen a number of the artists involved in the  
> festival, I tend to agree with his opinions on the various performers.  
> Keith Rowe is amazingly great, I remember the first time I saw AMM, at  
> the duMaurier fest in Vancouver BC in the early 90's, just being  
> stupefied at his subtlety and artistry. I left that performance feeling  
> like my ears had been permanently rewired. I disagree with his take on  
> Greg Kelley, Greg's doing something that I think is very new and  
> virtuosic on trumpet. Plus, he's a hell of a nice guy. But I do feel  
> that some of the new non-idiomatic improv, experimental, "lower-case  
> sound" or whatever they're calling it this week is overrated in some  
> parts of the music press, particularly The Wire magazine. I've been to  
> too many performances where nothing happens, and it's all done with  
> such seriousness of intent, that I long for something, ANYTHING to  
> happen. I know from personal experience that there are wankers and  
> charlatans in experimental music world, just like any other music  
> scene, and just because an artist is doing something "experimental"  
> they shouldn't be automatically above criticism. Hell, any science grad  
> student will tell you that the majority of experiments fail...
>
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Nelson" <psychle62@yahoo.com>
> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:28 PM
> > Subject: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using
> > laptops for music"
> >
> >
> >> yIKES!
> >>
> >> I just found this and found it somewhat amusing, scary
> >>  and, what's more, fairly on-topic. :P
> >>
> >> <http://indyweek.com/durham/2003-02-26/music.html>
> >>
> >> -t-
> >>
> >> np: zoë keating: one cello x 16: natoma
> >> <http://www.zoekeating.com/>
> >> cued up: the twin atlas: sun township
> >> <http://www.thetwinatlas.com/>
> >> later: miles davis: agharta
> >> <http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=md-agh>
> >> then: einojuhani rautavaara: cantus arcticus
> >> <http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/ 
> >> showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26170>
> >> maybe, probably: pseudo buddha: motive
> >> <http://www.unclebuzz.com/outofprint.html>
> >> followed by: robert rich: somnium
> >> <http://www.robertrich.com/rrsomnium.html>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> __________________________________
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >