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Re: stratoculture live at the keene music festival



so........

I played at the Keene Music Festival and performed my regular acoustic folk
set. I subscribe to this list because I also perform ambient music using
Reason and Ableton Live, and have learned a  lot and heard a lot of great
music by listening to the different artists that post to this list.

For those that don't know, the Keene Music Festival is a completely free
music Festival (no admission charges and no one gets paid) with a slew of
different stages set up, on literally the main street of Keene, NH. They
have assigned stages and open mic spots, where anyone can just sign up on
that day and play. It's a great concept and this year is the 6 th year of
the festivals existance. I know it's something I look forward to
participating in every year. In my opinion the best part of the festival is
that they have no prejudices on what type of music is performed. The list 
of
bands from this year is here.

http://www.keenemusicfestival.com/times.html


It's a pretty diverse group of musicians, who i seriously doubt anyone 
would
call boring or ordinary.


I have to admit I was pretty ripped when I read that comment this morning. 
I
have been playing music since I was 15 ( I'm in my early 40's now) and very
much take offense to have someone make generalizations about fellow
musicians and the music they create, regardless of the genre of the music.
Does it really matter how I'm making music, if I'm using conventional
instruments like acoustic guitar and voice or using non-traditional
instruments like effects and samplers as long as I'm creating
something?


Was (all of the music at the festival) something I would listen to at my
house? probably not, but it certainly wasn't boring or ordinary.


Now I'm going to download your two sets to see what they sound like.


My webpage is here

http://web.mac.com/jimbutlermusic/iWeb/Site/Home.html

some of my ambient music is here

http://music.download.com/jimbutler/3600-8357_32-100851197.html?tag=listing_song_artist









Peace..

Jim






 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael sintros" <mbsintros@yahoo.com>
To: <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:24 AM
Subject: stratoculture live at the keene music festival


> my friend and i recently performed at a local music
> festival, mostly dominated by "ordinary" (e.g. boring)
> music.  we weren't scheduled to play but we set up
> anyways and played two approximately hour-long sets of
> experimental electronic music.
>
> for the show, my friend played a turntable and a kaoss
> pad, and i took his outputs and used them as fodder
> for loops and sampling and general live sound
> creation, using an rc-20xl, a bunch of guitar pedals
> and an old akai s2000 (with no samples loaded into it
> initially, i used it essentially as a multitimbral
> looper / sound generator).
>
> i would say the style is a kind of mix of psychedelic
> dark ambient industrial noise, etc.  you be the judge.
> so far 5 segments (the first performance) uploaded,
> the next 4 (from the second performance) to come.
> the url is www.soundclick.com/stratoculture
>
> feel free to comment good or bad.  enjoy,
>
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