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Re: Echoplex's brother Icaue



Matthias,

Congratulations to you Mattias and happy birthday Icaué.

Best regards,

Ted Killian

On Oct 18, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Matthias Grob wrote:

> youhou!
>
> today is Icauê first party! ( not OT as you will see below )
> My son's age is still slightly negative, but his movements are clearly 
> visible from a far now, and at the daily percussion lesson he listens 
> and answers like slightly positive aged citizens :-)
>
> is it my first kid?
> until I was exactly 49 (7x7!), which was exactly when this astrologic 
> year started,
> I suspected that in this life
> my family was LOOP and
> my kids were machines (PolySubbass, LOOP delay, Echoplex...) and
> my younger looper friends would ease me if I'd grow old and lonely...
>
> but the pill failed and I am moved by the coincidence that:
> while my old family is partying in Sana X (and in Norwich last week!)
> we show off Icauê's Rick-green cozy room with the "uncle" made Dininho 
> and the Formula K cockpit and whatnot we got... to all the crazy and 
> beautiful improvisers and contact dancers and yoga teachers and... of 
> Salvador/Bahia !!
> today I also ordered the british birth pool Bassine to slow down 
> Icaue's next heavy task sequence of moving out, unfold, feeling space, 
> feeling air, breathing...
>
> (in case you wonder how to say his name: its almost sung, since the 
> first and the last letter are equally accentuated. Just imagine the 
> flow from
> I  the input on top, through
> C  the neck with the blade,
> A  the center,
> U  the unknown and
> E  the event, exit, export!)
>
> so will I abandon my old family? will I loop the kid thing now?
> I had a heavy problem that isolated me the last 5 years but it was 
> solved shortly after the y2k7 - with great help from Rick's huge good 
> will, understanding and insistence!
> so the past months I have been programming day and night to bring 
> another kid to screen light and its also near, but it does not depend 
> just on me, patience... and don't expect too much, we had to move the 
> LOOP IV technology to the computer first and only the next version 
> will contain the new ideas...
> we even want to build this new software into a new little box (sure: 
> no noise, stereo, flashcard... and still smaller and cheaper than the 
> EDP!) and even a HW prototype and money is available, but the project 
> might fail due to lack of administration capacity...
>
> at least, in free moments, I will work on video, sound and text 
> documentation about what we are doing, and try to follow the heavy 
> rhythm of this list again!
>
> sun is rising for the son
> a huge hug to all of you and a big tatataaa to the loop activists and 
> Icaue!
> Matthias