That is why it is time for the DJ producer to STEP UP and take hold of the
future(hay records are much easir to carry)
to bad pop culture is eating DJ's...
peace
From: Fred Heutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [313] .binary in Portland
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 03:08:14 GMT
I couldn't stay until the end, but there was a pretty nice if somewhat
sparsely attended event at Portland State University tonight called
binary I'm kind of surprised, PSU is pretty inflexible when it comes
to campus events, but they are running until well after 4 am it looks
like. Dan Bell was ending his DJ set as I left; before that John Beltran
had his live group going; I also heard a little of Kit Clayton.
I thought Beltran and company were pleasant but nothing all that
notable. A lot of people are experimenting with live PAs and moving
in the jazzy direction, but like the Transmat band last year and
Carl Craig's live shows this is early in the process of working
out some kind of hybrid live/electronic thing that still has to find
its groove in the performance situation.
After seeing Phil Lesh and his group earlier this week, I realized that
there is something missing from a lot of these live electronic shows,
and that is watching *hands* doing something. You even get some of
that with turntables. But the ergonomic necessities of keyboards,
synths, sequencers, patch panels and mixing consoles basically hides
a lot of that. We humans love watching hands at work, that's all
there is to it, whether it's Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, Oscar Peterson
or Oscar Robertson, Julia Child, Jimi Hendrix, you name it.
OK, OK, enough of this theorizing...
phred
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