RE: INFAMY

["Goddard, Duncan" <goddard.duncan@mtvne.com>]

>>As much as I love David Torn - and I really, really love him - I
nominate him for this list for his habit of creating a massive loop,
then letting it continue unaided as he pops to the bar for a beer, or
once when he saw him, to call his kids in the middle of the show. As if
we need more proof that the technology is doing all the hard work...!<<

saw fripp do something similar back in 1995 in the lobby of QEH in
london; he was using solid-state loopers by then (TCs?), not the revoxes
(my first disappointment) & having created a couple of un-synced long
washes of super-distorted guitar tones (i.e. what anyone could do in a
few minutes with an e-bow) he wandered off to the side of the
performance area & started to chat with his tech. 
his flight cases, which seemed to be way too much stuff for the noises
we were hearing, were also supporting small framed pics of his recently
deceased mother.
 
yeah, it didn't seem like he was working too hard at it. him & eno both
seem to have this obsession with "letting the machines play", which
would be more interesting if the machines in this case weren't just
delay boxes. 

(I like the idea of sseyo's koan, but setting it off, even in the right
direction, & then leaving it to it's own devices just doesn't do "it"
for me.)

I would've taken a picture of the scene, but you know how RF is about
that....

duncan.



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