Re: Live Looping: it pops up everywhere gone OT Xenakis

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

mark francombe wrote:
> "to me
> this just sounds like randomly banging on stuff". ;-)
> 
> ha ha!! i had the opposite...
> 
> I was at a gig once and a single drummer was "randomly banging stuff" I 
> said to my friend ..."to me
> this just sounds like randomly banging on stuff".  and he glared at me 
> and said... "Its a piece by Xenakis and it took him 3 months to learn, 8 
> hours a day, he is a master percussionist!!!!"
> 
> I shut up...
> 

I dunnow tho', Xenakis' stuff is atonal and rhythmically unorthodox,
..but I always thought it hung together well in a very non-random way.

Maybe he wasn't such a master percussionist after all.

andy

anyone else into Xenakis?