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Hi Gang, ive been considering installing RMC pickups on my acoustics (steel and nylon) so i can have access to my roland synth guitar.There are guitars like the godins with this systems built in but i want to be able to also drum on the guitar and get all the normal acoustic nuances you cannot get with a godin. My question is: does anybody have experiences with this pickups installed in their favorite acoustics and has anybody tried the Yairi WY1RR synth ready acoustic? thanx Luis --- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > Y2K4 mini diary first installment: > > Well, it feels funny writing a review of the > first night of the Y2K4 festival at the Luggage > Store in San Francisco > as I was one of the members of the live looping > improv trio > with Sunao Inami and Bernhard Wagner but I had such > a good time > and the response was so nice by the good crowd that > attended > that I wanted to let everyone know that we're off to > a good start. > At one point I just stopped playing and marvelled at > the fact that here > I was sharing the stage with someone from Kobe, > Japan and Zurich, > Switzerland. > Maybe not a big deal to some, but it filled me > with wonder and I felt > really happy for the first time in several days of > neurotic last minute > detailing of the > rest of the festival; this and the fact that > Michael Klobuchar, Stan Card, > Matt Davignon, > Dina Emerson, Tim Thompson and Rent Romus were all > in the audience listening > appreciatively. > > Sunao, Bernhard and I all have such disparate styles > musically that I > thought it > might not be a cohesive performance but I was really > pleasantly surprised > by how cohesive the long 45 minute improv was. We > went to a lot of places > and had a lot of synchronous playing despite the > fact that only Bernhard and > I were brother synced with our EDP. It was abstract > at times: ambient and > dark > at others and we occasionally coalesced into some > funk rhythmic material. > It was a nice contrast to the fascinating > glitch/noise group form Berlin > that opened up > the night. > > Sunao has such a beautiful sense of timbre and > deftly manipulated his sound > creations > in Native Instruments Reaktor and Ableton's Live > with two laptops running in > concert. > Bernhard also is a beautiful player who I only met > and became friends with > at this year's > Loopstock. He is really doing very interseting > things with the EDP and > effects. > > At one point the two of us had a really interesting > and vibrating couple of > loops synced that used > substitute insert techniques with falsetto voice > (mine) and Bernhard's > guitar. It was really > unsual sounding and really changed a lot as we > played. I was really > thankful for Matthias > Grob's invention of brother sync on this one. I was > also thankful that > Bernhard taped the whole > thing and that Scoots took photographs. Perhaps if > we get enough time (and > that will be a big IF) > we may post some of this material to the website: > nosuch.biz/Y2K4. > > I was tired from how hard I've been working getting > the festival together > but playing with > these fine and truly gifted/unique musicians felt > like take a refreshing > bath and I feel > really energized and excited about the weekend gig > ahead of us. > > Tomorrow, we see if we can get the simulcast up and > running for the Weekend > shows > and Sunao, Bernhard and the Scoots man himself, > Michael Klobuchar play the > opening > Santa Cruz concert. We got excellent press > coverage ( we are on the front > page of the > Sentinel today with a large article inside) and > excellent radio coverage so > I"m hoping > that we'll have a good draw for the weekend. We > had a nice draw in S.F. > tonight, the best > response to the Thursday night luggage store series > that they've had, > according to promoter/fellow looper > Matt Davignon, who's own set of manipulated drum > machines is eagearly > awaited on Saturday at > 4:30 p.m. Matt's putting the finishing touches on > his new CD featuring > some of the material from this phase > he is in, creatively...........I've heard it live > and it is fascinating and > beautiful and really unique. Check it out. > > More to come. Rick > > ===== www.luis-angulo.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com