Re: punk loops (was OT(minutemen))

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 5:40 PM +0000 3/4/03, Steve Lawson wrote:

>any punk bands who are looping? ;o)

Back in 1978-79 I played bass in an avant-punk band called Klang. 
Most of us were graduate students in composition (our drummer was a 
surfer and undergraduate recording major). Our music was fast and 
odd, blending punk with ideas and techniques from avant garde music: 
minimalism, polytonality, phasing, cut-up, quotation and 
appropriation, extended vocal techniques, multiple tempo layers, etc.

Most of the material was original (out sole cover was the Souxie 
cover "Nicotine Stain"), though we sometimes appropriated large 
chunks from existing songs. A typical example of this was "Robots," 
which contained the entire organ solo from "Light My Fire," albeit 
over different chord changes. We didn't do any looping per se, but 
used some techniques of pattern music such as gradual introduction of 
phasing between instruments. We also used fragmentation and 
permutation techniques in a song based on the Brion Gysin poem "I Am 
That I Am."

        http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/dreamachine/i_am.html

Klang was also the only band I know of to have no less than two songs 
inspired by Karel Capek.
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