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Nice! Two Summers (three?) ago I had the pleasure of seeing Nils-Petter Molvaer at Central Park's Summerstage in NYC. Eivind was an integral part of the band, playing his thing...the band was groovin' a heavy beat, samples, etc. and Nils was at his finest. Well, about a 1/2 hour into the performance, I see the sidestage personnel making the "cut, cut" gesture to the entire band, like it was time to "wrap it up" and bring on the next band. The 'next band' was Sex Mob, who are from NYC and can probably play there any given night! My friends and I were like "what the fuck?!?!?" This guy and his band come all the way from Norway to play a handful of gigs, and they're giving him the axe!!! Anyway, while the music lasted we were smiling from ear-to-ear. Amazing players, those ECM guys!!!! Ed in NJ -----Original Message----- From: Michael Peters [mailto:mp@mpeters.de] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:06 AM To: Loopers Delight Subject: Aarset-BitRMan-Kornstad I saw Eivind Aarset's group live yesterday ... he continues to amaze and inspire me like no other guitarist at the moment ... what a wonderful gig! As usual he used Ableton Live, so did his drummer, effortlessly morphing from a free improvisation to a groove that suddenly contained prerecorded sounds and melodies ... for his guitar playing, Aarset used a very wide range of sounds, from utterly tweaked and distorted to breathtakingly beautiful. I lo-res-photographed his setup after the show ... on the table from left to right: a Moogerfooger, a ZVex effect - but which one? -, an Alesis BitRman, and a Boss Delay. On the floor the Line6 Looper and some more fuzz boxes ... don't recognize them, anyone? http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00015.JPG http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00018.JPG I wonder if it could have been his Alesis BitRMan that occasionally produced those intentionally completely distorted sounds (which I've also heard from NiN before I think) - as if some input was cranked up way beyond normal distortion, so much that the sound gets interrupted ... does anyone know what I mean and how this is done? Does any of the guitarists here use the Bitrman with interesting results? all the online demos are done with techno rhythm machines ... One nice discovery for me on this evening was saxophone player Håkon Kornstad (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0tCpG5vPE) who played an extensive solo set before he played with the Aarset trio - he uses playing techniques that I have never heard before from a saxophone, and he loops with a repeater. Ever since the days of Terry Riley and Dickie Landry, I love saxophone loops! Michael www.michaelpeters.de
