Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The Clash and Laurie Anderson on succesive nights left an impression of... Message-ID: <2043@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 03:40:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2043 Posted: Tue Jun 5 03:40:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:22:24 EDT References: <552@mprvaxa.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 From: tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray) > For you techno-freaks - Laurie played a brief excerpt using a > "violin" with a magnetic-playback head on the bridge and a strip > of magnetic tape on the bow. The tape was of a voice saying > "Listen". Dramatic changes of pitch and timbre were achieved with > bowing techniques. I saw Laurie Anderson about a month ago. She was just amazing, like you said, but unless she just recently changed her violin recently, it was not as you described. The violin had strings, like a real vioin, but the violin was electric (like an electric guitar) and connectic to some sort of bizzare digital synthesizer. Each of the four strings had a different short recording or piece of music attached to it (via the synthesizer). If she played a string continuously, it would play out the whole fragment. If she paused (as in chaging the bow direction), it would start again from the beginning of the fragment. She could change the pitch of a recording, by using the frets of the violin. The first thing she did with the violin was to add very weird wolf howls (or something that sounded something like that) to the song. Just awesome. -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?