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

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

It wasnt random sounding exactly... i might have liked that... it was just a roll... then a few hits on a tom, then some furious drumming on toms... just seemed like a muso drummer practicing to me... infact he was playing from memory, and VERY LONG and intricate score, where almost NOTHING seemed to repeat ever... an magnificent feat of memory... relative feat of drumming, and a dull old bit of music...

got nothing against Xenakis however... dont get me started... as I said.. I shut up...

m

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:48 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

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?

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