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Loopers-Delight-d Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 162

Today's Topics:
  Re: jon hassell....                   [ "Joseph Buck" <josephbuck@hotmail.c ]
  RE: jon hassell....                   [ improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) ]
  RE: jon hassell....                   [ Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve. ]
  RE: jon hassell....                   [ Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve. ]
  Re: music                             [ Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@wayneswo ]
  a-d-j                                 [ "Joseph Buck" <josephbuck@hotmail.c ]
  RE: jon hassell....                   [ erik simpson <eriks@on-ramp.ior.com ]
  Re: seasons & music                   [ matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias  ]
  JFK's LSD UFO comes alive......       [ andre <andre@monmouth.com> ]
  Signing off for now                   [ "Paul J. Dresher" <PaulDresher@comp ]
  Orion Space Rock Festival in Baltimo  [ Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net> ]
  JMan Fade message/MIDI                [ Mark Sottilaro <msottila@mailbox.sy ]
  Music - non loop                      [ patrick@his.com (Patrick Smith) ]
  Re: the rest of the story about OBER  [ BlkSwan03@aol.com ]
  Sick Vortex Morphing Patch            [ Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) ]
  Re: music (new alchemical thingies)   [ Jon Durant <74074.1316@compuserve.c ]
  Vortex live (long)                    [ "Julia & Dave" <jndk@colba.net> ]
  Re: KK Null (was: Music - non loop)   [ Erik Ljones <eriklj@stud.ntnu.no> ]
  Re: Sick Vortex Morphing Patch        [ Ed Drake <ejmd@erols.com> ]
  Re: Sick Vortex Morphing Patch        [ Chris Chovit <cho@newdream.net> ]

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:14:57 PDT
From: "Joseph Buck" <josephbuck@hotmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: jon hassell....
Message-ID: <19970923171457.6400.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Is that Italian CD (I believe on Materiali Sonori) any good?
That 808 state ep actually dates from around the City era.
That arboretum show sounds amazing....

Salam,

Buck

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:51:03 -0800
From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: RE: jon hassell....
Message-Id: <v01510100b04dba2a84b0@[128.193.5.247]>
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>Hola Michael-
>
>Well it has been awhile but he seems to have picked up the pace. Doing
>*exceptional* work on the ry cooder score for the end of violence (one
>of the most thought provoking films I have seen), a track on kd lang's
>album, a live appearance of bluescreen mkII at a festival in europe, and
>some installation work....

I really liked Hassell's playing on Cooders soundtrack to "Trespass". Also,
as I was scanning the channels the other night, I noticed that he composed
the theme music, but not the incidental music, to the TV series "The
Practice". Onbly problem is, I've never managed to catch the beginning of
the show, and have not heard this yet.

>hassell as eno has said is one of our greatest minds and i am glad he is
>serving more up...
>for folks wanting to begin with some hassell try powerspot(eno! jean
>philippe rykiel!, michael brook!), city: works of fiction (truly magical
>unknown music), or for loopage unlike you have ever heard- aka darbari
>java (amazing this was made in 1983!)...

I second these recommendations completely, City: Works of Fiction is an
amazing album, treating urban music, rightly so, as another ethnic source.
I listened to it a month ago or so, for the first time in a few years, and
its amazing how well it has held up. Bluescreen, which as far as I know is
his last CD, has not held up so well for me, it veers close to urban
contemporary jazz in places, but has some nice moments. Aka:Darbari:Java is
a looping masterpiece, especially considering what tools he made it with.

>his 4th world work with eno seems nigh impossible to get....
>
I still see the EG records turn up on vinyl, thought I don't believe they
were ever issued on CD. Also, a few records he did on Eno's short-lived
major label Opal turn up occaisionally: there's an excellent live record
with an extremely long title that begins "The Surgeon of the Night Sky...",
and a record he did with a traditional african ensemble whose title escapes
me right now.

________________________________________________________
Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org  : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:51:42 -0400
From: Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve.com>
To: "'INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: RE: jon hassell....
Message-ID: <199709231751_MC2-2194-4FF9@compuserve.com>
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Dave says:

>>his 4th world work with eno seems nigh impossible to get....
>I still see the EG records turn up on vinyl, thought I don't believe they
>were ever issued on CD. 

yes they were, all of them: 

Vernal Equinox is on Lovely Music

I've seen Earthquake Island on CD (does anyone have that and wants to sell
it to me?)

Possible Musics was a regular EG release on CD

Dream Theory in Malaya and 
Aka-Darbari-Java 
were released on Japan CDs

>and a record he did with a traditional african ensemble 
>whose title escapes me right now

Flash of the Spirit, with Farafina. I saw an incredible concert of that
many years ago ...
___________
Michael Peters   
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters
HOP - Fractals in Motion ..."the only screen saver you'll ever want"
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters/hop.htm

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:51:45 -0400
From: Michael Peters <MPeters@compuserve.com>
To: "'INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: RE: jon hassell....
Message-ID: <199709231752_MC2-2194-4FFD@compuserve.com>
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> Is that Italian CD (I believe on Materiali Sonori) any good?

Only for the collector, I'd say. (Like me <g>.) Some of the pieces are
taken from the Dream Theory in Malaya album, and there are some others in a
similar style, but none of them as good. Also, for some reason, they put
some of the dramatic Italian dialogues on the album, some of them over the
music. While this might be interesting for the people who saw the show, to
me it doesn't seem like a good idea.
___________
Michael Peters   
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters
HOP - Fractals in Motion ..."the only screen saver you'll ever want"
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters/hop.htm

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: music
Message-Id: <199709232201.PAA13080@waynesworld.ucsd.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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Late check-in...

> So how about this, what music are you all listening to these days? Which
> artists are inspiring you for looping or otherwise? If I go to the record
> store on Saturday, what should I get?

Lately I've been listening to the following:

3 Trios - Nguyen Le

Le originally caught my attention with his CD _Tales Of Vietnam_; mostly
Vietnamese folk songs reharmonized into jazz setting.  Turns out he's
pretty darn good at guitar-playing in a more pure instrumental setting
as well.  Great stuff from the three acoustic bassists and percussionists 
on this CD as well.

Kiki's Delivery Service Original Soundtrack

Soundtrack to the Japanese animated film about a young witch striking out
on her own.  Nothing particularly revolutionary here; just music I currently
enjoy chilling out with - invokes thoughts of the French/German/Swiss
countryside.  BTW, this was one of several Studio Ghibli movies that
routinely clobbered the competition from Disney in Japan.  As a result,
Disney has agreed to distribute Studio Ghibli films in the U.S. sometime
next year.

Vision Of Escaflowne Original Sountrack Vol. 1

Soundtrack to the Japanese animated TV series.  Most of the music seems to
be strongly influeced by orchestral music from the Romantic and 
Impressionist eras of Western classical tradition (think Star Wars or
Raiders Of the Lost Ark).  The composer, Yoko Kanno, has also shown a
wide variety of influences from ethnic musics to various pop forms to
electronic music in her work but aside from the three "pop" tunes (one done 
entirely with acoustic instruments such as mandolin) this CD is mostly
devoted to that big, epic kind of sound.

Sol - Greg Howard

Features Stick wizard Greg Howard exploring mostly Latin-flavored 
instrumentals in solo and group settings.   Pretty good stuff from one
of the premiere players of the instrument.

Orblivion - The Orb

You all know who these guys are.  It seems darker than other albums of
theirs I've heard.

> Here's another one we haven't delved into for a long time: What is it about
> looping that makes it interesting, fun, musical?  Why do we want to do it?
> Why does it show up in so many types of music? Is it something in human
> nature, learned from culture, what?

A popular theory is that humans naturally respond to rhythm.  Sorry I can't
say more - I still have a lot to learn myself.


Paolo Valladolid
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:22:52 PDT
From: "Joseph Buck" <josephbuck@hotmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: a-d-j
Message-Id: <199709240022.RAA16229@f53.hotmail.com>
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>Dream Theory in Malaya and =
>
>Aka-Darbari-Java =
>
>were released on Japan CDs

A-D-J was also released here in America on Caroline....
loopers check out that bad boy. esta muy influential para David Torn.

salam,

buck

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:05:44 -0700
From: erik simpson <eriks@on-ramp.ior.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: RE: jon hassell....
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970924010544.0068f64c@on-ramp.ior.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 12:51 PM 9/23/97 -0800, you wrote:

>I still see the EG records turn up on vinyl, thought I don't believe they
>were ever issued on CD. Also, a few records he did on Eno's short-lived
>major label Opal turn up occaisionally: there's an excellent live record
>with an extremely long title that begins "The Surgeon of the Night Sky...",
>and a record he did with a traditional african ensemble whose title escapes
>me right now.
>


Just to repeat what others have chimed in with;

Actually they all were issued on cd at one time on Caroline, i believe. I
snapped them all up when they came out, a few years back. Some of my all
time favorite stuff. The one with Farafina was called "Flash of the Spirit".
I also have "Earthquake Island", which I believe is pre-Eno, even though
there are no recording dates on the disc. It has a bit more of a "Bitches
Brew" vibe for me, but with people like Miroslav Vitous, Nana Vasconcelos,
Badal Roy and Dom Um Romao, that is hardly surprising, and the trumpet
playing still sounds fairly highly processed. Not as much intense looping as
his later work, but you can hear how that whole mind-boggling run ("4th
World", "Surgeon of the Nightsky..." "Aka/Darbari/Java", "Dream Theory..",
etc., etc.) is right around the corner. The man is truly a giant in my
estimation, and yes, he does deserve his own list. I would definitely be there.

I had been interested in the "End of Violence" score. I got the Soundtrack,
(Orbison and Eno is just too weird an idea to pass on, even if the actuality
is somewhat (actually much) less than I would have hoped for. But with
Barbara Orbison as Executive Producer, you know he wasn't going to be laying
the vocal tracks over an extended version of "Somber Reptiles".) and I liked
the Cooder track a lot and was going to seek out the Score. Interesting to
hear Hassell is on it. (I loved the "Trespass" soundtrack). Now I must
redouble my efforts. 

Back to lurking. Bye;

Erik Simpson

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 04:16:10 -0300
From: matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias Grob)
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: seasons & music
Message-Id: <v03007800b04e6b33de74@[200.254.32.140]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

-Erik-:
>My music seems to move slowly over time in a less dynamic manner in the
>fall and winter, making it sound more "ambient", I guess. For this reason I
>activily try to expose myself to these conditions.

yep, I also had the stong impression, when I moved to Brasil, that the
change of clima changed my music at least as much as the influence of the
local music.

Stephen
>I presently am working on a second year's worth of loops for my Book Of
>Days series (which has a different loop for each of 366 days), with an
>effort to produce one for each day

What an amazing effort! Is there a chance that the "book" turns publishable?

Matthias

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:15:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: andre <andre@monmouth.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: JFK's LSD UFO comes alive......
Message-Id: <199709241315.JAA05569@shell.monmouth.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>hello fellow loopers/digital guitarists....

welcome to the fall... those of you in the east of north america...

i've got a couple shows coming up - lots of live looping, digital noise,
analog tweakage, vortex abuse, midi-evil squack, y'know...if you haven't
heard us yet - check it out!!! Thanks to all of you who've bought our debut
cassette at the store or thru the mail or thru internet... we really
appreciate it. It's chaotic, quiet/loud duo music

FRIDAY SEPT 26

Jfk's Lsd Ufo 9:30 pm EARLY SET!!!!!

The Brighton Bar-121 Brighton Ave-Longbranch NJ
732-222-9684

also:
SATURDAY SEPT 27 - Jfk's Lsd Ufo

Live at THE BOOK PIT 7:30 pm
behind Dorn's Photo Shop-Wallace ST, REd bank NJ
phone # listed, or call 732-747-6448 for info
(this is a cheap, non-smoking, all ages show!!! )

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:45:05 -0400
From: "Paul J. Dresher" <PaulDresher@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: Signing off for now
Message-ID: <199709241145_MC2-21A6-7A4B@compuserve.com>
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Loopers:

Just heading off on tour with my new Echoplexes and a new piece to premier
in Canada.  I'll be signing off for a while so I just wanted to thank all
those who helped me get my tech together in the past month and thank you
all for the continuing interesting dialog.  Back soon,

Paul Dresher

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:28:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Orion Space Rock Festival in Baltimore
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970924132020.6529H-100000@ari.ari.net>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Hey folks,

We're doing a space rock fest here in Maryland in a few weeks. One of the
featured acts is Fingerpaint who took part in the Philly Loop show earlier
this year. From my perusal of one of the members' rigs last Saturday, it's
been assimilating looping devices and effects doohickeys faster than the
max loop-time on my old Compueffectron. Check it out:

                              Orion Sound Studios
                              2903 Whittington Ave
                              Baltimore, Maryland

The Orion Space Rock Festival will be held on Saturday October 18th at
Orion Sound Studios in Baltimore, Maryland. This all day festival will
feature the top U.S. Space Rock acts performing full sets accompanied by a
psychedelic light show.

There will be a wide range of space rock styles presented. Everything from
loop-based ambient music to full blown intense mind blowing sci-fi rock.

Featured performers:

o Alien Planetscapes
o Architectural Metaphor
o Escapade
o Quarkspace
o Fingerpaint

ADMISSION:   $25.00 at the door. All ages welcome!

OTHER INFO:  Call the studio at 410.646.7334 after 2pm EST, email 
             alevin@ari.net, or point your favorite web browser to
             http://prog.ari.net/prog/shows/showcase/

	Orion Studios is a rehearsal and recording studio located in
beautiful southwest Baltimore, Maryland.  Orion has 21 rehearsal studios
which are rented on a monthly basis, plus a 24 track digital recording
studio attached to a showcase room.  The show will take place in the
Showcase Room. We have no liquor license, so its a BYOB affair. Sodas will
be available. There will be a retail area where the bands and other
vendors will be selling CDs, tapes, and T-shirts, so bring plenty of cash! 

Vendors interested in attending should call Orion or email mpotter@stsci.edu 
about table rentals.
========================================================================

Directions:
-Take I-95 to exit 50, Caton Ave. (Just inside the south west side of the 
 695 beltway)
-Take Caton Ave south to the third traffic light and turn left onto Washington
 Blvd
-Go 1/4 mile up the hill to the U-Haul sign and turn right onto Inverness.
-At the end of Inverness, turn left onto Whittington Ave. 
-Go to the end of Whittington and turn right into the parking lot
 at 2903 Whittington, in the Whittington Business Center.
-Orion is on the right.

-Adam

---
       "...if one strives at hearing for the sake of constant virtue,
       out of seeking liberation from cyclic existence, gradually one 
                           becomes a Hearer."
                           - Chandrakirti

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:46:45 -0500
From: Mark Sottilaro <msottila@mailbox.syr.edu>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: JMan Fade message/MIDI
Message-ID: <3429B473.573B@mailbox.syr.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Attention all JamMan loopers!

Does anyone know of any way of getting a loop to fade while you're
adding to it, other than a MIDI message?  A new member of my group has
just purchased a used JMan and he doesn't have any way to transmit
MIDI.  Is there a way to maybe get the JamMan to synch to a MIDI clock
while in delay mode?  That would work as well.

Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks.

Mark Sottilaro.

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:32:51 +0200
From: patrick@his.com (Patrick Smith)
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Music - non loop
Message-Id: <v01520d01b04f0c7445d7@[205.177.25.43]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Well Kim if you heading off to the record store this weekend and don't kave
a copy of the Merman release Songs of the Cows. I guess you could call it
surf music for the nineties....nice fun riffs...I'm certainly not a
reviewer but with the abundance of guitarists on this list I had to throw
this one out........

And on the dark side of things I've been  enjoying a release by KK Null and
James Plotkin called Aurora......dark droning heavily treated guitars oof
the netherworld.......

Patrick


 ***  ***    ** Fingerpaint http://www.his.com/~patrick/FNGP.html  ***  **

  

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:35:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: BlkSwan03@aol.com
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: the rest of the story about OBERHEIM
Message-ID: <970924233334_1298487234@emout09.mail.aol.com>

In a message dated 9/20/97 1:08:27 PM, you wrote:

<<Mike Lyon must
have been "lying." >>

Mike Lyon is a major psychotic liar that lied and bullshitted his way to his
position with Oberheim.   He has single handedly put off more customers and
dealers than anyone else at that company.   He lied to me and kept me waiting
for the upgrade for two (yes two) years.  I had two units that would not work
in stereo because of a known software glitch that he just played dumb about.
 I've never experienced a worse run company than Oberheim.  I really hope
that Gibson solves the problems over there and saves this company and some of
the great products they market.  The people that create these products and
the people that put their faith in them and buy them deserve a lot better.
My question to Gibson:  Who the hell was responsible for not properly
overseeing this company?  And who on earth was responsible for hiring such a
complete goon as Mike Lyon?   

The Echoplex is a great product and it deserve a lot better than this.

Jim

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 05:57:09 -0400
From: Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata)
To: 'Loopers Delight' <loopers-delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: Sick Vortex Morphing Patch
Message-ID: <01BCC977.DD5297C0@mark.asisoftware.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Since Andy Butler's Vortex website is out of commission, I thought I'd pass along this sick Vortex morphing patch to all loopers.  It doesn't loop, but when fed into a looper you get something really horrible.

One side of the morph sounds very ringy and metallic, while the other side is nearly overtaken by a siren-like sine wave.

Algorithm:	Mosaic A	Mosaic B
Envelope:	16		1
Morph A/B:	22		64
Echo FX Level:	12		05
Mod FX Lvl:	64		64
Output:		64		64
Mix:		64		64
Fdbk 1:		30		28
Fdbk 2:		30		28
Rate 1:		41		22
Depth 1:	64		57
Resonance 1:	64		1
Rate 2:		19		12
Depth 2:	30		34
Resonance 2:	7		64
Echo 1:		4		16
Echo 2:		6		16

Assign an expression pedal to control Morph A/B.

Kim:  Maybe a looper who knows HTML could set up a form on the L-D Vortex page so that other loopers could contribute their patches.

Cheers,
Mark Kata
Mark@asisoftware.com

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:02:44 -0400
From: Jon Durant <74074.1316@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: Re: music (new alchemical thingies)
Message-ID: <199709250803_MC2-21C0-5C26@compuserve.com>
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Sean writes:
>Ok, you've got my atention - any more you can tell us about the Manring
>project?  

Well, it's underway, most of the material is written/recorded. Michael's
extremely busy as a sideman just now (surprise?) and hasn't had much time
to finish. The latest projection is that we'll mix in November, probably
won't see the light of retail before February. But: it's an intensely cool
record, with Michael doing mostly everything. Much funkier than any of his
previous recordings, trippier, not so much metal as Thonk, not so delicate
as his other Windham Hell recordings. Perhaps I could say that it is to
Manring what "What Means Solid, Traveller?" is to Torn. 

Right, that said I also need to mention the nearly finished William Camire
record as the experience will perhaps sound oddly similar to many on the
list. "Fourteen Years" is an album of material originaly created fourteen
years ago. It was then reassembled, reinvigorated, reinvented with today's
mindset and technological capabilities. (Though I need to point out that
it's still heavy on analog synths and lo-fi approaches to sound sources:
apart from the jamman, there's no "sampling" on the record.) It's an
"ambient" album, perhaps harkening back to Eno's Ambient 4, though I've not
listened to that record in many years, so I really don't know whether that
connection really stands up. Anyway, the point is this: while working on
this record, we've found that after a couple hours of intense work on it,
our minds are completely turned into jello. It's draining our creativity in
a really painful way. Yet, listening back to the rough mixes (a day later),
it's a beautiful, relaxing record. Anyone else go through this?

later,
jd

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:28:57 -0700
From: "Julia & Dave" <jndk@colba.net>
To: "Looper's Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Subject: Vortex live (long)
Message-Id: <199709251427.KAA17033@mail.colba.net>
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Hi,

I played a gig last night in which a performance artist/painter was getting
a tattoo done on his spine, and my job was to take the close miked sound of

the needle, run it thru my EMS Pitch-To-Voltage Converter to drive a VCS-3,
which in turn was being fed directly through the Vortex and my SDE-330 
Dimensional Space Delay.  I had a long cluster echo on the Delay, and a
sweet variation on the Bleen patch on the Vortex which I was madly editing
in real-time just cycling away.

Since I have only owned my Vortex for a couple of weeks, I hadn't had the
chance to use it in a live situation.  At some point, I was trying to
figure
out which patch point on the VCS-3 was doing all this wonderful wailing
and spinning and it was then I realized it was the Lexicon talking.  What a
powerful device.

You haven't truly experienced the Vortex until you've used it in a concert
setting.

There was also someone doing live video processing who at some point
generated some nice swirling patterns.  I wonder why?...

Everyone got home safely, their hearing intact (no ringing) and their
internal
organs only slightly crushed by the spinning subharmonics.


Just thought I'd share this with you.


D 4 V 1 D    K R 1 5 T 1 4 N
 
Not always that noisy.

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:41:10 +0200
From: Erik Ljones <eriklj@stud.ntnu.no>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: KK Null (was: Music - non loop)
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970925164110.0073662c@pop.stud.ntnu.no>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Patrick wrote:
>And on the dark side of things I've been  enjoying a release by KK Null and
>James Plotkin called Aurora......dark droning heavily treated guitars oof
>the netherworld.......

Is KK Null that Japanese guy who usually fronts for the band ZENI GEVA? If
so, I think I once heard him in a collaboration with Jim O'Rourke, but I
can't remember what it was called. I think he also releases disturbing
(guitar-) noise recordings under the name NULL. Perhaps someone else knows
more about this? 
-Erik- 

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:51:18 -0500
From: Ed Drake <ejmd@erols.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: Sick Vortex Morphing Patch
Message-Id: <l03110700b05052abaf3d@[207.172.62.41]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Mark Kata posted this earlier:

>Since Andy Butler's Vortex website is out of commission, I thought I'd
>pass along this sick Vortex morphing patch to all loopers.  It doesn't
>loop, but when fed into a looper you get something really
>horrible......(snip)

>Kim:  Maybe a looper who knows HTML could set up a form on the L-D Vortex
>page so that other loopers could contribute their patches.

I'll offer my assistance here, I actually had started a Vortex patch page
for LD, but put it on hold when Andy Butler started his page. I guess
people could submit their patches directly to me or post them to the list
and I'll periodically collect them and send them to kim for the web. Would
you like to see each patch put on its' own page linked from a main Vortex
patch page or have all patches put on the same page? I think it makes more
sense to put each patch on its' own page, as I can just send new pages to
kim as needed. Anyway let me know if I can help!

Ed

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:20:01 -0700
From: Chris Chovit <cho@newdream.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: Sick Vortex Morphing Patch
Message-Id: <v03102801b05059e05250@[137.79.95.51]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Looping folks,

I'd like to offer my assitance here, too.  I am currently in the process of
coming up with some CGI code to allow people to enter their "personal
profile" directly from the web browser, rather than having to send the info
to Michael, Michael format the info, then send it to Kim to post it.

Once you guys have settled on a standard format for the Vortex patch files,
let me know and I will attempt to come up with some code that would allow
folks to enter them directly from a browser.

Also, I was wondering: do you think it would be useful to have a search
engine for the personal profiles (as we do with the mailing list archives)?
I thought this might be useful, and would be easy to set up.  Any feedback
here?

Back in town,
- Chris


>Mark Kata posted this earlier:
>
>>Since Andy Butler's Vortex website is out of commission, I thought I'd
>>pass along this sick Vortex morphing patch to all loopers.  It doesn't
>>loop, but when fed into a looper you get something really
>>horrible......(snip)
>
>>Kim:  Maybe a looper who knows HTML could set up a form on the L-D Vortex
>>page so that other loopers could contribute their patches.
>
>I'll offer my assistance here, I actually had started a Vortex patch page
>for LD, but put it on hold when Andy Butler started his page. I guess
>people could submit their patches directly to me or post them to the list
>and I'll periodically collect them and send them to kim for the web. Would
>you like to see each patch put on its' own page linked from a main Vortex
>patch page or have all patches put on the same page? I think it makes more
>sense to put each patch on its' own page, as I can just send new pages to
>kim as needed. Anyway let me know if I can help!
>
>Ed



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Chris Chovit                                          avec@gomez.jpl.nasa.gov
 AVIRIS Experiment Coordinator      pager #: (888) 415-4547

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