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RE: Zvonar the bell ringer

GREAT STORY!
"Bell Ringer"... heh heh...


> [Original Message]
> From: Chris Muir <cbm@well.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 8/7/2005 12:23:20 PM
> Subject: Zvonar the bell ringer
>
>
> My relationship with Richard started strangely. It was 1976 or 1977, 
> and we were both taking a class in electronic music, taught by Bob 
> Beede, at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz. We each thought we were the 
> smartest person in the room. I think that we viewed each other with a 
> little suspicion.
>
> This changed when I asked Bob Beede to open for my band at the time's 
> first, and as it turns out, only, gig. My band was more or less 
> called "Your Name Here", although we had just run a series of "Name 
> This Band" classified ads in the local free paper, the Good Times. 
> The gig was in Kresge hall, at UC Santa Cruz. Bob asked Richard to 
> join him for some serious noisemaking.
>
> Bob & Richard played with unique, aggressive timbres, but little in 
> the way of structure. Your Name Here was playing complicated, mostly 
> composed music, with way too many parts, time signatures, and key 
> changes.  The contrast between the approaches was really interesting. 
> Richard and I came away from this with respect for each other. We've 
> been friends ever since.
>
> Richard was really good at networking and keeping in touch. If he was 
> in town, we would usually get together, often with someone Richard 
> thought that I should know.
>
> Whe he first got esophageal cancer, he did his usual thorough job of 
> research on the disease, and his prognosis. He knew that the survival 
> rate was not that high for this type of cancer, but he put up the 
> good fight. Around this time we were both alpha and beta testing the 
> Eventide Orville. I submitted a patch that I made, called BellRinger, 
> which I thought Richard would like for two reasons. The first is that 
> it's a cool patch with reverse tapped delays that build to a peak, 
> which is ring modulated, then the ring mod signal hits a normal delay 
> and fades out. The second reason is that Zvonar translates into "bell 
> ringer".
>
> I'll miss him.
>
> -C
>
> -- 
> Chris Muir           | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
> cbm@well.com         |  This is why conservatives mostly agree,
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