[Gllug] East London Install fest.

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed May 1 11:33:53 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:50, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> >  > > ie, an excuse for techies to drink beer.
> >  > not really, they do the serious stuff first, then drink beer ...
> >  > its how all tech meeting work ... isn't it?
> > 
> > Trying the other way around isn't usually too productive 8-)
> 
> so we've noticed =)
>  
> >  > but they are into electronic music, and fractal/math/graphics etc.
> >  > radio, tv/cctv and other wyrd stuff.
> > 
> > When you say 'electronic music', are we talking people making strange
> > sounds with power tools and the likes, or music with regular instruments?
> 
> i think the short answer is yes. or mabye a better response is both.
>  
> > I used to know some 'arty' types who used to do the former, and
> > whilst not always aesthetically pleasing, it was certainly interesting
> > at times 8-)
> 
> for example; one guy has an electric guitar, fed into a laptop, that
> was doing some sound processing, and feeding that into a
> peizo-electric speaker in a saxophone shaped thing ... at first it
> sounded wyrd, but not unpleasant.
Bah! Humbug!
Stockhausen was doing that forty years ago. (exceptfor the laptop bit
:-)

Steve


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