Re: dildos and personal fans

["Pulse 8" <ozone@ticnet.com>]

speaking of Dildo's...Ryan from The Legendary Pink Dots/ Twilight Circus
uses them on his guitars...and the second time I saw them in Dallas, (two
years ago) he just laid them down on top of his guitar and went and
drummed...

He also uses a device very similar to the theremin, but I don't know the
inner workings of it, though I did get to play with it two years ago as
well.

Joshua

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----- Original Message -----
From: "r. dennis" <tonobung@panix.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: re: dildos and personal fans


>
>
> for christmas, try the norelco personal cordless shaver.
>
> no kidding.
>
> a:c
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Rick Walker wrote:
>
> >
> > david wrote:
> >
> > i used a 'vibrator', a few times in the early 80's, but..... ummm.....
> > didn't
> > get so much musicality from that; 'twas fun to see the front-row's
> > reaction,
> > though. also: 'personal fans' can be kinda nice, both sonically &,
add'ly
> > as a
> > mechanised-pick/'stringdriver'.
> > best,
> > dt / SPLaTTeRCeLL
> >
> >
> > I'm not a guitarist (although I use one in my live looping shows), I'm 
>a
> > texturalist and found sound aficianado who comes from a rhytmic
> > background (world percussion and trapset originally).   I just wanted 
>to
> > say that I use variable speed dildos
> > to control simple melodies through pickups (and sometimes just through
> > regular microphones). You usually can get a very simple two or three
note
> > melody out of one.
> > I recently did a local cable access television show where I played 28
> > minutes of music without using one conventional insturment (well, I 
>used
> > a balines suling once) and my wife at the last moment talked me out of
> > doing a looping piece only using dildos.......family values and all)
> >     I also use personal fans in a piece of music called DAYGLO
> > TRANSLUCENT LIME GREEN PLASTIC as one of the rhythmic elements. If you
> > blow burst of air through the fan onto a mic you can get very techno
> > sounding timbre going, rhytmically which can get pretty sophisticated 
>if
> > you use several fans with different 'fundamental' pitches.
> > I also use several sometimes as different pitched drones. It is
> > particularly great when batteries are just about out of poop because 
>the
> > oscillations are slower and , if you are lucky, you can hear the
> > modulation of the individual blades.  This, alas, does, not work 
>through
> > pickups.
> > Another fun 'preparation' of the guitar I've experimented with (outside
> > of the de riguer alligator clips, knives and forks) is taking one of
> > those large steel chinese therapeutic balls (you know, the ones in the
> > import stores that have beautiful random chimes in them.
> > and roll them down the strings forwards or away from the pick ups.   I
> > found these great blue plastic martini skewers with small round balls 
>at
> > the end which I use to play the strings directly over the pickups while
> > the ball rolls.........kind of a slide, fretless gamelan kind of
> > thing.........all of this loops wonderfully (he says, bringing it all
> > back to the topic ; - )
> > stay  creative,   Rick (humbly AKA  Loop.pooL)
> >
>
>