Re: AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT MENTIONS LOOPING (AT LEAST BRIEFLY)

["todd reynolds" <toddreyn@gmail.com>]

Caleb joins me often in my string quartet as violist, and we are close friends and colleagues, and he is one of my favorite musicians. He does great work as a composer and violinist, AND countertenor.  Also coming from the classical camp, he is one generation younger than me, and it's wonderful that he just got a Times article all to himself!  I heartily recommend his band, itsnotyouitsme... Give a listen, all tracks are just electric violin and guitar, live looping. Eventually you'll hear some tracks from Caleb and myself, I hope.  We've been trying to get something together for awhile.  He uses a loopstation, I believe, or at least I think I saw one last night. And yes, Daryl, this multi-genre identity began for me in about 1989, and it's amazing to see it trickle down through the conservatory training.  It still seems like there are only a few of us at a time that expand while still IN school, however.  Caleb was one of those guys, and I'm beginning to see more and more folks coming out of school with multi-genre guns blazing, lol.    

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Best to all... 

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:

thanks for posting this, Ted. I know I'm happy to grow up at a time where it's become more common for people to be active in different genres. I take a lot of inspiration from people like Nels Cline and Mike Patton, who do everything from pop/rock to out improv, and have it all stand up as good music.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

At 28, Mr. Burhans has pursued a career path so logical that it seems almost foolproof. Just sing, compose and master several instruments (besides the violin he plays viola, guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion) and the New York freelance world is your oyster. But this is a new development. Until recently, the conventional wisdom went, musicians with diverse talents should specialize: decide whether they are better suited to composing or performing, singing or playing an instrument, working in classical music or a variety of pop.

And while most young musicians still make the traditional choices and scramble to find work in freelance ensembles until they have established themselves as recitalists or chamber players, others are seeking to diversify. Mr. Burhans's generation is the third to come of age during the rock era, and where conservatories once taught only classical music, most now offer courses and even degrees in jazz and rock, recording technology and the music industry itself. And musicians who grew up hearing everything from Mozart and Ligeti to Wilco and Radiohead are less inclined than their elders to compartmentalize their passions.

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