Re: 2 Days of Loop Performance Recording Madness

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Thanks, Charles!  Hmmm...video. Good idea. Next time I'll bring my camera 
and shoot shot scenes.

The venue, called the Bouqett (http://www.thebouquet.net/index.htm) ...a 
fairly large venue down town on Main street. It can probably hold 200-300 
people. It used to be called the Blues Bouquett, but new owners came and 
and 
expanded the genres. The stage is about 3 feet high, about 25 feet 
wide...for big bands, so we had lots of room. About 10 lights/pars on the 
ceiling. It's hard to say how many folks where there, but I'd say about 50 
or 60 throughout the 2 hours we played....which isn't bad for a Thursday 
and 
avant-garde music! There were about 20 people there, before we played at 
9pm. Then they gave us all the door cover charge, which indicated 33 more 
people.  The reaction was surprisingly positive. Many of the folks there, 
including the staff, said that we really challenged their preconceptions 
of 
what can be done with live performance and music...we broke the mold at 
the 
venue, I guess, because folks are used to dance or pop music there. The 
door 
man said that he thought were very professional and top notch.

I'm going to try really hard to get a sax or trumpet player to join us 
next 
time....but the chances are very low. I've never seen a local horn player 
play this style of music, but I'll put an ad in the paper nonetheless, and 
see who comes out of the closet.

You are correct...Boise really isn't thought of as an avant-garde town, 
but 
we do on occasion see that type of music here. Aside from me, there are 
maybe 1-3 other artists who do weird stuff, and then we get some out of 
town 
bands, maybe one avant-garde band a year. A few years ago, the Jacob Fred 
Jazz Odyssey came to town, which are in the free jazz vein. But is really 
rare to see bands like this in clubs. We usually play smaller venues or 
underground, private venues...we have an interesting underground scence 
here, where people host bands and have big parties. Who knows what the 
else 
they do at those parties.

We usually have to create our own venues...for instance, I'm starting the 
1st Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival, April 28-29. Rick Walker, 
Ted 
Killian /Jeff Kaiser, and Lumper-Splitter are headlining, then I have 8 
local avant-garde and experimental musicians playing all day Saturday. 
More 
here: www.boisemusicians.com/experimental

Paul - sure, I'll post the remainder of the set.

Set 1, Session 1 (not my favorite) - 
http://box.net/public/khartung/files/2142446.html
Set 1, Session 2 (you already have from my first post) - 
http://box.net/public/khartung/files/2140414.html
Set 2, Session 1 (complete clip) - 
http://box.net/public/khartung/files/2140007.html
Set 2, Session 2 (Alice in Wonderland) - 
http://box.net/public/khartung/files/2140009.html

I probably won't keep these up for more than a day or two...maybe just Set 
1, Session 2. So if you want to listen to them in later, you might want to 
download them.

Kris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Winters" <chasw44@comcast.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: 2 Days of Loop Performance Recording Madness


> Nice work, Kris.  The long track, (2140414) is the better number , IMO. 
> The percussion and voices really make it shine.  You should include it 
>in 
> your collaboration album.  Maybe you can post a video of one of these 
> shows.
>
> BTW, please tell us about the venue and crowd.  How many fans present, 
> what was their reaction to the aforementioned piece?  You don't usually 
> think of Boise as being an avant garde kind of town, but apparently 
>there 
> is something going on there. - CW
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 10:08 PM
> Subject: 2 Days of Loop Performance Recording Madness
>
>
>> It's been a good two days of loop music recording here in Boise, Idaho 
>> for
>> me and one of my free-improv collaborators, Jarod Hallock, who plays the
>> electronic drumset, acoustic drum set, and marimba.  Friday night, an
>> interesting phenomenon occured, which I suppose happens when a looper 
>> like
>> myself, after playing couped up in coffehops for three years, gets 
>hurled
>> into a major night club in downtown Boise.  We played two hours of 
>> complete
>> free-improv madness. The first set was very electronic, ambient, & 
>> industrial
>> orientated...two songs in 45 minutes! On the second set, Jarod hopped 
>on 
>> his
>> small jazz acoustic set and we played free jazz fusion...the first 
>piece 
>> was
>> spontaneous. The second was a loose interpretation of one of my 
>favorite 
>> jazz
>> tunes, "Alice in Wonderland."
> snip
>