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

["Dylan DeAnda" <dylan@loudcloud.com>]

Hi Dave,

I'm interested in finding out about the methods that your cohort,
Turntable Enabler used.

Since I am a turntable looper myself, I'm always looking to find out
what people are doing with turntables and loopers.

I use mine for "scratching" out beats (scratch drumming) and accenting
or just noodling, creating little ditties and mostly rehearsing with
myself.

I'm an advocate of the turntable as an instrument and I am trying to
further my skills, so I always appreciate hearing what's new on the
circuit.  

I'd also love to get back together with a live band and see what comes
of it.

I've played with a SF bay area band (D'Briah), mostly for environmental
cuts and minor scratches (Abbrasions), it was fun but there wasn't much
of a concerted effort to really get something solidified.

Thanks for the info,

D





Dylan DeAnda

EDS Automated Operations 





-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Trenkel [mailto:improv@peak.org] 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:01 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Gig Report: Portland LoopFest A-Go-Go

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.