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thank you for mentioning Linsey Pollak on the list. He is a really great (loop) artist and absolutely nice guy. In his shows I always appreciate, when he starts to play music on selfmade instruments, most of the audience is expecting something that sounds like music, but then he just plays more beautiful then you often have the chance to listen to. Unfortunately he does not have a website, it could be filled with good and funny stuff. Matthias (L) ___________________________ http://matthias.loibner.net MG> I was lucky to meet the Australian duo Dva (Tunji Beier - Linsey MG> Pollak) here in Salvador/BR at the best anual festival: MG> http://www.mercadocultural.org MG> (send you stuff in, they had a loop act every year...) MG> We know Tunji from his brilliant presentation with Matthias Loibner in Zurich. MG> But it seems we never mentioned Linsey here? MG> He appeared twice in the program: MG> first with the duo: MG> http://www.tunji.org/dva/instruments.html MG> then solo in the circus of the avant garde school where the festival MG> grew out from. He sais he has about 7 projects going and I could not MG> find the link to the right one (he does not seem to have a site of MG> his own), but this one gives an idea: MG> http://www.realtimearts.net/qbfm03/sat/reid_cabaret.html MG> both shows were totally loop based, Tunji using a Repeater and Linsey MG> a Roland RC20. unfortunately they cannot be synced so they used MG> either percussion or woodwinds loops. Since Linsay produces very low MG> sounds, together they could have built much ritcher grooves. MG> Anyway, it sounded great the way it was! MG> Tunji is a great virtuoso with a ritch background, grown up in africa MG> and having studied for years in India... really quick and subtle... MG> but what really blow my instrument creators mind was the work of Linsey! MG> During the duo he mostly used glass "wood" whind instruments. While MG> low flutes and saxophones tend to become very big and need a complex MG> mechanic because the fingers cannot be spread enough to close the MG> holes that need a distance given by physics, he simply bypassed both MG> problems by turning the instrument in a spiral or wave form! It also MG> looks really beautifull! MG> in the solo show he built the instruments while playing! for example MG> he loops some notes blown on a simple tube, a groove with one tuning. MG> while its playing on he keeps cutting pieces of the tube to achieve MG> other notes and loops them on top, so that in the end there is a MG> melody and he throws the last bit of tube behind him! So it goes on MG> with drilling holes into carrots and whatnot... its fun, sounds good MG> and kids understand the physics of instruments without words... MG> in each instrument he grabs, he sticks either the one piezo mic or MG> the small condenser mic, its so simple and understandable... MG> And, last but not least at all: they are great people to be with.