Re: gear schmear, music is best

[Kim Corbet <kcorbet@post.cis.smu.edu>]

Okay...good call.

my latest inspiration came from sitting in a Dallas seafood bar several 
weeks ago.  There were 3 hanging tvs at different distances, all tuned to 
different channels (one sports, one sitcom, one news station), plus two 
or three conversations and the guy calling out orders and numbers.  It 
was, basically, a slightly chaotic texture with clear, disparate sources.
As I changed my focus, I could change the nature of the "performance" 
and, when I walked around the space, I could, of course, manipulate the 
balance, drawing parallels of synchronicity through the polyphony.

In our Dallas band, GOUGE, most of us have loopers and we've been working 
with the concept of selective listening.  We may start off absolutely 
together, but, over time, we begin to separate in terms of tempo or tonal 
center or even style...adding megaphone speeches or theatrical events 
that stand in concert or contrast with any part of the overall.

If music reflects life, it's nice to play/hear music that reflects the 
diversity of stimuli we're continuously faced with.  It's becoming 
increasingly rare to do just one thing at a time and it's likely in the 
future we'll have tv, radio, even movies that include multiple images, 
multiple songs and multiple plots all at the same time. 

I believe loopers are ahead of their time in this regard with their 
ability to clone their own images.  I'm looking forward to a device 
that creates holographic images of the performer that appear with each 
loop, so there's a "fan" of images standing there, building audio/visual 
textures....................................spare kim