Re: LOOPING a DRY CLEANING SHOP

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

There was something that bothered me about these clips, including "musician plays a tree" (also featuring Diego) and "music for one apartment and six drummers". I gradually figured out that it's not the musicians themselves. I see Diego as taking the torch from  Matmos and running with it. He is doing a lot of creative stuff. 

The thing that bugs me is the video treatment and promotion. He's not really playing a dry cleaning shop as an instrument - he's making lots of tiny recordings, then arranging them on the computer to make music. The video treatment suggests that he's playing all the "instruments" from start to finish live. 

The "music for one apartment and six drummers" video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPVbc8LgP4) specifically lies to you - it doesn't even show the computer! Somehow, the drummers are able to amplify the sounds of perfume bottles, etc without microphones. Also, the sounds of books being dropped on the floor sound like handclaps, and sound exactly the same each time.

So yeah, it puts the sensationalism above the music, and that bugs me. 

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

Fascinating video clip of
Diego Stocco recording and using looping
in a Dry Cleaning shop.

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/22/musician-plays-a-dry-cleaning-shop-as-instrument.html

It becomes pretty obvious half way through that
he didn't do this in real time,   but
he certainly could have done so
(with an LP-1 and an Electric Repeater)
or perhaps   Mobius and Ableton's live.

He's definitely pitch shifting sounds for his
'melodies' and they are being stretched appropriately
in a way that only the Repeater and Live can do
(to my knowledge at least).

Still,  quite cool and fascinating.

Parenthetically,  I was talking with the producers from the
Martha Stewart show about going in to a K-Mart
and looping only her brand of toiletry items with cameras
rolling (one of her brass wastebaskets is still one of the
most sophisticated  found percussion instruments I've ever
discovered) right when she got busted and went to jail.
It never happened but I had already built a battery powered
live looping rig to accomplish it.

Rick Walker