Re: Funny "Experimental" Music Experiences This Week

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

I would have loved to hear the chainsaw story.
I love the random when it enters music and truly believe that we can 
recontextualize anything into music if we try hard enough.
Well, maybe not anything...............a heckling, belligerent drunk is 
dangerous to include in your loops...........lol.

I have a couple of experiences like that:


At the last 2nd Sundays Live Looping Series that I played at,  I was doing 
a 
sensitive piece for
kalimba in 6/8 when they fired up the loud disco in the Blue Lagoon right 
under our floor.

In came the throbbing 4/4 bass...................really loud and the room 
below......................in a perfect polyrhytyhmic four pulse
to my loop (which at the time was a line 6 loop)................i'll be 
damned if it didn't stay in sync for the better part
of the piece....................there was nothing to do but play do this 
throbbing bass beat which I did, and then ended
my concert immediately after I finished the piece.


Also, in Japan,  I began my last show and there was suddenly a loud 
clicking 
noise that was repeating in the rhythm of a samba bass line.
||: X**XX**XX**XX**X :||      Try as I may, I could not locate the 
|offending 
sound and figured that my poor abused Mackie 1402
had finally bit the dust.     So I just announced to the crowd (most of 
whom 
could not understand my english at all) that I was just going to have
to make my whole show be based off of that rhtyhm.    I did a faux 
industrial beatbox rhythm over that bizarre ostinato and did my first 
piece.
Mercifully, I discovered that one of my two blow channels in the board had 
come unmuted and I was able to finish the show with my own
decisions about rhythm.    It's wierd though..............the preamps are 
blown in channels one and two of my board and each channel makes
a loud repetitive clicking sound..............one is just like a quarter 
note,   the other is that infernal samba rhythm....................why 
would
that happen?

Lastly,  in one of my gigs,  a very loud ambulance siren occured just as I 
was making a long loop............................it got recorded into my 
sensitive
AKG C1000s mics and miraculously was perfectly in key with the song I was 
beginning to loop.   The audience cracked up and I left it in the piece 
for 
the duration.