Re[4]: The Effects Of Looping...praise the Lord and pass

[Mike.Biffle@wj.com (Mike Biffle)]

>>Maybe we're getting somewhere here... "Ritual(istic) Music" could 
>certainly
>>pertain to a large body of our work in several genres. I'm sure the more
>>humorous modes, and the slice and dice modes which move about wildly will
>>probably not quite fit. The word ritual could serve to attract certain 
>>audience members quite ready to be swept away by the music...

> Hey maybe we should start our own cult.  Private jets and adoring 
>attentants 
> for everyone!!

Hooded Robes!... Live internet feeds from our subteranean chambers... 
strange 
symbols... and most definitely, bring on the adoring attendants!

>> Call and response is definitely western mantra in action! Check out the 
>> Robert Duval movie "The Apostle" if you want to see some really 
>mesmerizing 
>> portrayals of this. What an amazing movie... I've become much more 
>interested
>> in reaching beyond my instrument (guitar) and adding word based 
>conceptual 
>> ideas, to deepen the impact of various ideas. Ritualized repetitive 
>action 
>> can be really powerful...

>Now THAT movie was scarey! Why?  Because my Father was a Penticostal 
>Holiness preacher and I was raised in that world.  I never realized that 
>I 
>was raised in a cult until I saw it.  I recognized the order of service, 
>the 
>songs EVERYTHING.
>Lorne Thomson

Whoa Lorne, I sympathise with you... Holy Smokes! Swear to Buddha! I'm an 
Aztec!!!... (a quote from his high holiness of the Lunar Asylum, Moon 
Sharon...)

-Biffoz