11.14
Hotel Fab To Be Here, University District, Seattle.
A grey day in Seattle…
Today is the final Soundscapes performance of this particular tour.
13.32 Spotted on Planet Crimson…
scorched earth Planet Crimson Resident Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 1301
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:26 pm
… I had to check out the BBC program about "Heroes" that Sid has a link
to in his blog. Specially interesting of course, hearing Eno and
company explain Fripp’s part: his guitar was plugged into Eno’s EMS
synth, and was improvised on the first pass, with two other layers
added on, with Eno all the while doing his thing with the synth knobs.
23.40 Yow! Terror! Fear! Horror! Suffering! Misery! Torment!
For
the last performance of this series, we used (for the first time) a
secondhand GR1 guitar synth (purchased from FQM Glenn on the East
Coast) to replace the GR1 currently with Biff back in Madison:
being repaired because it lost midi control. John copied the programmes
out of that un-midifying GR1 & loaded them into this new-old
midi-responsive beast.
At soundcheck, 30 minutes before doors-opening, plugging in to check SV II - the synth hadn’t accepted the programme download. The sounds of Soundscapes were, mostly, not onboard. Much scrabbling on the floor, copying & loading a basic selection of algorithms from various banks, modifying them, discovering that several didn’t exist (a missing soundcard). So, this evening was very much a performance on the wing. My sense: 7 out of 10 to a generous audience who deserved more than they were given, in an excellent performance space.
Four Quarters’ Maintainers: Tony, Curt, Frank, Jaxie & Bill.