Re: Looping Laurie Anderson

["K. Douglas Baldwin" <dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us>]

I will echo (Heh,heh) Mark's comments on the lack of women in the looping
community. I tried to get this going as a thread a while back, but no one
else "wove". I'm very glad to see the discussion kindle now. I am again
threatining to gig again, and those two or three of you who remember my 
gigs
back in the late 80's may recall an equal
representation of genders then. I believe the spacey, ambient looping style
is particularly "feminine" while the hard sampling and non-pitch/noise
styles are more "masculine". One may expect to cultivate appropriate
audiences for each style.
    The whole concept of "using tools", though, is a gender-charged one. 
The
(perhaps overly Freudian but still still resonant with me) explanation I
received is: Males have external genetalia, females have it inside. This
manifests itself in a masculine propensity to manipulate external things 
and
a feminine propensity to look inwards. I received that from a woman, by the
way.
    Props to Tim Nelson for posting the Pauline Oliveros web site!
    I have a memory of watching/hearing a woman on television who used an 
EH
16-second delay to do massive improvised vocal stuff. This would have been
around 85 or so. Any ideas who she was?
Douglas Baldwin, Alpha male Coyote, the Trickster
dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us

Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>I know we've been through this before, but with a role model like
>Laurie, why do we
>find so few women interested in working with new tools (such as loopers)
>in Music?
>Are there still women on this list?  There were some time  back, but I
>left the list for a while and have seemingly come back to a "boys"
>club.  Bizarrely enough, I always
>thought that our beloved loop leader Kim was a woman, until I met him.
>When you
>assume...  and so the web degenders us.  But still the question as to
>why most
>women (I've met) seem to avoid music that's off the "beaten trail."  The
>women that
>I do know that are interested in new modes of aural expression, seem to
>be as in
>the dark as myself.
>
>Perhaps I only wonder this, as my date drifted into deep sleep during
>the
>performance.  Ha!
>