Re: Looping Laurie Anderson

["L Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

No it wasn't. It was just an FYI.

- Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson


>At 04:36 PM 10/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Before aone else errs in their opinion of when the "little ladies"
>>will finally get into looping, you might want to pick up a book or
>>learn how to read.
>>
>>Pauline Oliveros created looping as we know it today.
>>A women. (Gasp!) In 1966, at Mills College.
>>
>>Eno knew this, Terry Riley new this. Geesh.
>>
>>Larry
>
>Hey Larry,
>
>Was that comment directed towards me personally?
>
>Paolo
>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com>
>>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>>Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 4:18 PM
>>Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson
>>
>>
>>>I once watched a concert by a woman from Mills College.  She had a 
>velvet
>>>glove that she wired up herself.  It had sensors for each of her 
>fingers.
>>>It could also sense the distance from another sensor in her belt buckle
and
>>>yet another sensor attached to one of her shoes.  This glove was driving
a
>>>gigantic Max patch on her Powerbook which in turn was driving a couple 
>of
>>>samplers and a synth.   She said she built her velvet glove controller
>>>because she wanted a more feminine alternative to the videogame
Powergloves
>>>(I think by Mattel) that other experimental musicians were using.   She
>>>would perform by making motions with her gloved hand while reciting
poetry
>>>or prose.
>>>
>>>I don't know why I didn't ask her when I had the chance her thoughts on
the
>>>male-female ratio in the avant garde music scene.  Then again, women 
>were
>>>always in the minority in all the engineering classes I took in college.
>>>
>>>Paolo
>>>
>>>
>>
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