Re: Gig Report: Portland LoopFest A-Go-Go

[Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org>]

At 10:36 PM -0800 1/12/03, dgoat wrote:
>Greetings all!
>
>Well, the very first Portland loopers gig has come and gone, and it 
>was a mad success, far beyond what I had dreamed it would be. We had 
>a great crowd (over 125!) and actually made some money to distribute 
>to all of the people involved! We had ambience, noise, rock, jazz, 
>funk, spoken word, experimental, folk, minimalism, etc. Basically, 
>just about something of everything! Improvization seemed to be the 
>common thread throughout. List members Neil Goldstein, Dave Trenkel 
>and myself all performed along with several other local Portland 
>loopers.

This was a fantastic show, JD, Matt and I had a great time playing, 
and we really dug listening to everyone else. It was a remarkable 
range of music, and, surprisingly enough, as Mr. Goat pointed out 
that night, no frippertronics :-). Twayne and every one else deserve 
mad props for pulling this off, I know what a headache it can be to 
organize something on this scale, and the evening was very smooth, 
even mostly on-time, surprising given the number of acts and amount 
of gear. I was also very pleased to see such a large audience. Maybe 
there's a future for this looping thing!

>
>
>Last for the evening (and best) was Admiral Twinkle Devil (Dave 
>Trenkel) and the Turntable Enabler. Dave had an absolutely HUGE 
>assortment of devices that he ran an electric piano and Nomad 
>keyboard through, including a Repeater and a JamMan. His turntable 
>co-hort used a Repeater and other devices on the turntables, and 
>definately played them as a musical instrument. VERY impressive. 
>Now, not only did they have the mounds of gear (a full music store's 
>worth it seemed) but they also brought an excellent sax player with 
>them, who squalled and melodied his way through the textures with 
>tenor and soprano saxes. A fine, fine closing act.

Thanks for the kind words, I'm blushing. I had some technical 
problems, not unexpected given the amount of crap I was using, but 
fortunately Matt and JD could more than pick up the slack.