Re: circus animals? (Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo material? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 13 sep 2007, at 19.54, kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com wrote:

> My favorite line: "Your music sounded great to me, although I don't  
> know anything about music."

LOL!  Actually that's quite a complement.

Last year I was invited, as "something different", to play sax  
looping improvisations at a "Singer Song-writers Evening" at a local  
beer pub. All the regular acts did bad imitations of Dylan, The BAnd,  
etc, etc. I really felt like everybody hated me when I entered the  
stage and started building a rhythm by beating the sax without  
blowing into it. People just stared. "Seconds before the zombie  
attack"... kind of. One particularly huge guy right before the stage  
were staring more than anyone. He never moved, only to finish beer  
after beer after beer. When I was finished he waved me over. I sat  
down at his table. He stared. Silence. Then he said "I did NOT like  
what you were doing. But it was the fucking craziest thing I've ever  
witnessed. Thank you!" Then it turned out that he was a contra bass  
clarinet player with the symphony and used to have compositions  
written particularly for him. Wow, that was weird. I'm glad I had  
been challenging his beer-staring by playing even noisier during my  
set (as opposed trying to figure out what people expected to hear me  
doing. The truth was that I thought everything was already lost and I  
had no way to win them over again. But I was wrong. They just didn't  
know how to react to my music because it was out-of-context at that  
event)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)