Streaming was Re: George Lewis' "Improvised Music..."

["Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)" <emile@foryourhead.com>]

Anyone interested in George Lewis or in the 
intersection  of electronic music and jazz should 
check out Streaming, by George, Roscoe Mitchell 
and Muhal Richard Abrams. 
http://www.pirecordings.com/pi22/

At 11:12 AM -0600 4/14/08, Krispen Hartung wrote:
>Yes, Voltage has a lot of electronics, and some 
>with Dempa too, which by the way is an excellent 
>CD!  But I'd say most of it is still 
>electro-acoustic, rather than pure electronic. 
>It's just the type of music that I've been into 
>lately. There is something very appealing to me 
>about using a real physical instrument and 
>actual playing it as a basis for electronic 
>manipulation.  I guess it is the "player" in me 
>and the years and years I have devoted to 
>playing instruments and attempting to be 
>competant at playing them without the aid of 
>electronics.
>
>Kris
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>
>
>Hi Kris, I too am interested in the pdf. Very 
>timely as I’ve been pondering how much of my 
>time to put into learning standards  vs. 
>concentrating on the much more out stuff… not 
>that they are mutually exclusive or not 
>cross-fertilizing, of course…
>
>I noticed that I don’t recognize anything on 
>your recent listening CD list that involves live 
>electronic manipulation, though some of the 
>folks you list have of course been involved in 
>that, for instance Evan Parker and his 
>Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Lewis himself 
>perhaps… but maybe the handful with which I am 
>not familiar do. Voltage? Dempa? Lewis with 
>Muhal and Roscoe?
>
>Hal Dean
>
>From: Todd Lainhart [mailto:tlainhart@gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:09 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: George Lewis' "Improvised Music..."
>
>Hi Kris -
>
>Thanks for your kind offer of sending out the 
>PDF on improvisation.  I'd also like to get a 
>copy, if you can spare the send.
>
>If you like, I can also host a link to it on my 
>website (hidden somewhere on the server).
>
>thanks!  -- Todd
>
>-------------------------------------
>  Anyone read the George Lewis' "Improvised Music 
>after 1950"?  Unbelievably earth-shaking, 
>pivotal, and paradigm shifting work in light of 
>the history of improvisation....recommended 
>reading to me by Jeff Kaiser. I have a PDF copy 
>for anyone interested.
>
>...but it's pretty damn cool that science is 
>starting to show that us improvisers having 
>something unique going on in our brains when we 
>play.
>
>Kris


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