Re: electricity question

["Christopher White" <magicicada@mindspring.com>]

i would just bow my waterphone
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>From: KB305@aol.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re: electricity question
>Date: Sun, Oct 10, 1999, 11:24 PM
>

> >this just popped into my head, too much free time, i guess......what 
>would
> >you do if you lost all of your electricity, what type of music would 
>you 
>then
> >do?........michael
>
>First, I'd have to examine how dependent I am on electricity.  Then I 
>might 
>go back and reread all of my John Cage books.  Maybe I would disown the 
>notion  that I actually get to 'make' the music.  But I doubt it.
>
>I believe that all art, fundamentally, is a response to terror.  Before 
>electricity, people made wonderful music.  No need to get cliche-fever 
>about 
>that.  I'm pretty sure that Erik Satie, for instance, broke as he often 
>was, 
>did not depend on 120VAC to compose.
>
>I have a lovely Martin, and as dependent as I am on the American power 
>grid, 
>there is no electric instrument I have that sounds quite like it.  
>Perhaps 
>the consequence of unplugging for me as a guitarist is more content over 
>kHz.
>
>Kevin Brunkhorst  <A 
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>Red Road the band  <A 
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