RE: Knustford in May (was: what a loop has to say)

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: Knustford in May (was: what a loop has to say)

why, thank you sir.
I'm the one with the 80s style rolled-up jacket sleeves, to my shame.

I listened to it myself only last week. we obtained the audio samples from the bbc library; the staff at jodrell bank were astonished to hear them, as they didn't know the recordings (from the 50s) had survived. they were experimenting with arthur c clarke's crazy notion that radio waves could be bounced off of objects in earth-orbit to extend their range beyond the visible horizon..... &, in lieu of an actual comms satellite (none had been launched at this point), they used the surface of the moon. hence "hello moon! hello moon!".

"skeletopes" got it's name from our guitarist's oldest, then a mere 5 years old. we tried to explain to him that the large "satellite" dish was a telescope but he couldn't equate this with it's scaffoldy structure. there's a word for this type of fortuitous malapropism that eludes me presently.

oh, & we had our mellotron there, in the same room as bernard lovell's grand piano, in the little planetarium.
these days, the planetarium is no more, though the main observatory survives. instead, we gig at a newer planetarium at the national space centre in leicester, where there's a bloke who used to do the laser show for pink floyd. the centre itself, aswell as being the public face of british space endeavour (whatever it is these days) was the control centre for the mars lander known as "beagle", the poor thing.

we're playing there next saturday, actually- the 25th. mr ian boddy will be joining us for some larking about.

duncan/radio massacre international.
-----Original Message-----
From: mungenast@earthlink.net [mailto:mungenast@earthlink.net]
Sent: 17 March 2006 17:24
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Knustford in May RE: [LOOP] what a loop has to say

Hey Duncan!

I gave your Knutsford disc a few more spins last week, and it remains a very satisfying listen.

Cheers,
Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: goddard.duncan@mtvne.com
Sent: Mar 17, 2006 12:13 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: RE: [LOOP] what a loop has to say

>>Most of the time, I let the sound of the loop define where I'm going, what
it needs to do next, what additional loops and layers it wants to play
with next, when it wants to take a break and sit back and listen to the
other loops play, and when it invites me to come play with it.<<
I recognise this.
sometimes it will be a chunk of audio in a looper, sometimes a line or two in a looping hardware sequencer (doepfer maq, notron, whatever), sometimes something our guitarist has going around in his jam-man.

whatever it is, it will "seed" the whole improv, & may disappear only to re-appear later on, perhaps in a modified form.

with careful use of effects &/or patches, the looping material can give the impression of live & controlled evolution, as though someone is devoting some concentration to it's manipulation when, in fact, it's just free-running.

meanwhile, slightly more complex beings are interacting with it.
it's a bit like having a junior member of the band, who isn't quite sure how far they can push their chops, so they just find a groove & stay in it for a while. indeed, I find myself wondering if "junior" is the right word, since as a bass player I find staying in one groove for a long time is actually very hard & requires some disciplne I simply don't have.

hmmm....
duncan.

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