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Dear G*d, will someone be taping this?!? Nice story on the '82 concert, BTW. I have a good mental picture of it. I am still amazed about the impact that Dr. Z's death had on me, considering I only knew him via e-mail. I guess it's just having fruitful communications with a friendly and extremely erudite person, a fellow who's "been there," then not hearing from him for a while, then finding out that he's gone and there will be no further communications and that I will never get to meet the guy. Not as sucky as losing my dad, to be sure, but sucky nonetheless. I can only guess how his family and close friends must feel. You guys have such great stories about him! Love, ~Tim > [Original Message] > From: loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com> > To: LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting) <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Date: 10/1/2005 11:42:37 AM > Subject: re: Dr. Zvonar > > thanks for sharing that, Rick > > Bob Beede and I are going to do a tribute piece in Richard's honor > for the closing performance at the Y2K5 festival , next Saturday >evening, > October 8th > at close to 10:00 p.m. Bob is going to do some spoken word about > Richard's life > while I ,humbly, will play 'Richard' to Bob's 'Diamanda Galas' and process > his vocals with my loopers. > > Reading this made me remember the first time I met Richard. > > Richard, Bob and I did an avante garde electronic performance together >on > the same bill in 1982 > which was the first time in my life that I ever > looped........................it was under the influence of a brilliant (and > then,very young) musician that I played with at the time, Michael Haumesser > who was the very first person > I ever heard who spliced his own lo fi cassette tapes loops to make music he > called, "not noise" (www.notnoise.com). Not Michael and Jim Rutledge and I > called ourselves "Tao Electrical" for that evening > as we were the rhythm section for a popular local new wave band called "Tao > Chemical". > > Bob Beede was my first professor of electronic music and he played on >the > bill with a good friend of his, the first PHD I ever met in music, Dr. > Zvonar. I still have the poster for that one somewhere. > > I remember that I felt sooooo grown up...................playing 'art' > music..............electronic music..............with not only my professor > but his PHD friend with the great reputation from lands to the south of > us.......running > tape loops on a borrowed tube Echoplex with the erase head > disengaged............leaving the stage at the break > between acts and letting all three of those tube Echoplexes keep running > their rather ambient tapes out of sync with each other. > > It was a heady time and I owe a lot to Dr. Z. We all miss him. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Williamson > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:21 AM > Subject: Dr. Zvonar > > > audioMIDI.com put up a tribute page for Dr. Z. > > http://www.audiomidi.com/classroom/cedge/cutting_edge_zvonar.cfm?CPID=1397