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Re: Echoplex's brother Icaue



Exciting news!
Congrats.
Look forward to hearing those first words..
"Loop Da.. Da.. Loop" :)

Andre

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On Sat, October 18, 2008 12:56 pm, David Auker wrote:
> One of the coolest announcements I've ever seen!  Congrats 'n joy,
> Matthias, Icauê!
>
> David
>
> Matthias Grob wrote:
>> youhou!
>>
>> today is Icauê first party! ( not OT as you will see below )
>> My son's age is still slightly negative, but his movements are clearly
>> visible from a far now, and at the daily percussion lesson he listens
>> and answers like slightly positive aged citizens :-)
>>
>> is it my first kid?
>> until I was exactly 49 (7x7!), which was exactly when this astrologic
>> year started,
>> I suspected that in this life
>> my family was LOOP and
>> my kids were machines (PolySubbass, LOOP delay, Echoplex...) and
>> my younger looper friends would ease me if I'd grow old and lonely...
>>
>> but the pill failed and I am moved by the coincidence that:
>> while my old family is partying in Sana X (and in Norwich last week!)
>> we show off Icauê's Rick-green cozy room with the "uncle" made Dininho
>> and the Formula K cockpit and whatnot we got... to all the crazy and
>> beautiful improvisers and contact dancers and yoga teachers and... of
>> Salvador/Bahia !!
>> today I also ordered the british birth pool Bassine to slow down
>> Icaue's next heavy task sequence of moving out, unfold, feeling space,
>> feeling air, breathing...
>>
>> (in case you wonder how to say his name: its almost sung, since the
>> first and the last letter are equally accentuated. Just imagine the
>> flow from
>> I  the input on top, through
>> C  the neck with the blade,
>> A  the center,
>> U  the unknown and
>> E  the event, exit, export!)
>>
>> so will I abandon my old family? will I loop the kid thing now?
>> I had a heavy problem that isolated me the last 5 years but it was
>> solved shortly after the y2k7 - with great help from Rick's huge good
>> will, understanding and insistence!
>> so the past months I have been programming day and night to bring
>> another kid to screen light and its also near, but it does not depend
>> just on me, patience... and don't expect too much, we had to move the
>> LOOP IV technology to the computer first and only the next version
>> will contain the new ideas...
>> we even want to build this new software into a new little box (sure:
>> no noise, stereo, flashcard... and still smaller and cheaper than the
>> EDP!) and even a HW prototype and money is available, but the project
>> might fail due to lack of administration capacity...
>>
>> at least, in free moments, I will work on video, sound and text
>> documentation about what we are doing, and try to follow the heavy
>> rhythm of this list again!
>>
>> sun is rising for the son
>> a huge hug to all of you and a big tatataaa to the loop activists and
>> Icaue!
>> Matthias
>>
>>
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