Re: The Ambient Ping . . . .

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

Seems to me playing loop music counts as chiming in on a topic, indeed.
I interpret gig postings as invitations to experience something which
can't be posted. I really don't mind if someone has few words about
their music.

Neither should you have to "play to say". I am often inspired by people
who may not have much music behind their words, like real-time software
engineers, dancers who loop their choreography, kinetic sculptors and my
brother. 

(As a young child, my brother wrote a poem about seeing life as a circle
or as a stick. Aha, no wonder looping with a Chapman instrument feels so
much like home to me...)

-Alex S.

Greg House wrote:
> 
> --- GelRest@aol.com wrote:
> > Well, I think that there's a problem when someone ONLY posts spam and 
>NEVER
> > participates in general discussion.  I don't feel like they are really 
>part of
> > the LD community if they don't occasionally chime in on a topic. That 
>my big
> > beef with ambient ping - they send us these obvious mass mailings, and 
>never
> > actually talk to us in person.
> 
> Not true at all. Scott's been a regular here for years. He responded 
>recently on
> the Matrix 1000 topic. Check the archives, I believe you'll find that 
>you're
> entirely offbase in this complaint.
> 
> Greg
> 
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