the originalminimalists

[RA336@aol.com]

hey all...
had the good fortune to attend the 30th anniversary reunion concert by 
Mother 
Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. up here at Cornell University
... in case you didn't know, they were the first performing ensemble to 
use 
synthesisers. Bob Moog was developing his stuff here in Ithaca and they 
were 
sort of the beta testers...

anyway, truly great concert; performed pieces from the original repetoire 
as 
well as pulling a few of David Borden's more recent works...

reason this is posted to the digest is because  these guys were using 
loops 
in what was then very new ways... multi-metered contrapuntal figures 
repeating at different time lengths... remember this all pre-dated Eno, 
Bud 
et all... in the early 70's this music was'nt yet called minimalism... 
critics referred to it as "synthesizer music", "trance" music or simply 
boring because "nothing happened"..

also an excellent set pf program notes which kinda covered the whole 
seminal 
period of pre- 1975... very beautiful AND entertaining...

skeebo.
Robby Aceto