I was one of maybe 10-15 people listening to him at the Underground stage bright and early one of those rainy mornings at DEMF. It's pure ambience (ie, no percussion or discernable tempo at all). I might even call it "space music", if that means anything to you. I enjoy this kind of stuff, but I don't find a lot of commonality in it with other Detroit material. This is even less pronounced than Mills' ambient material, so I'd definitely recommend giving a listen before purchasing if possible. I think this would be great music to work/sleep to. I doubt that would be taken as an insult.
When he performed, it was all coming from a laptop, controlled through an airbass controller that "shapes" the sound based on the proximity of your hand to the surface of the airbass. In that sense, this was all created live, as the shaping more-or-less *is* the song. I'm assuming he recorded the DEMF performance and is releasing that, rather than re-recording it anew. I imagine each time he performs this material it would take a different shape. Tristan ---------- http://www.mp313.com <- Music http://www.metrotechno.com <- DC techno + more http://www.metatrackstudios.com <- DC DJ/Production studios http://phonopsia.tripod.com <- Hub [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- email <FrogboyMCI> <- AOL Instant Messenger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:19 AM Subject: [313] mitch walcott > anyone got any further info on this one? (tracklisting?) > > WALCOTT, MITCH: Europa CD (AXIS/TOMORROW). . "During the month of November > and December, I wanted to take the tracks that I liked best from DEMF and > put them all together on a CD. The dilemma was naming the project about a > planet or moon and have it all make sense. Europa was the perfect > candidate. After doing a lot of research, I found that someday we might > actually send a spacecraft that will penetrate the ice to hopefully > discover a subsurface ocean. The possibility that there may be life on > Europa fit very well with my last track on the disc, which was to move the > listener from a very dismal place, to a place of beauty. I did not want to > specifically name the spacecraft going to Europa. There are many different > teams out there right now, each with their own project name and idea of > functionality. So, I decided to be somewhat vague so that the listener > could use his/her imagination. My goal is for people to listen to this > project and come away with interesting imagery in their minds." -- Mitch > Walcott > > thanks > > jason > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]