to almost totally take this off of electronic music, i'd like to say that Pete Townsend of the Who had a project that he never finished called the life house that would take what everyone in the audience and on stage were feeling and put it to music. it didn't quite work out and was scrapped because he was using too many drugs and drinking too much to get it accomplished. Besides the record company was bugging the hell out of them for a new record. As he advertised it, every show would be different and unique, and would be percepted differently by everyone. it was a good idea, but is still to this day ahead of its time. The songs that came out of the scrapped project were quite good some of them had synth lines. What remains is now the Who's Next album. and to tie this into Detroit (or michigan) the first radio station in the USA to ever play a song by the Who was in Flint, MI...
peace jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Scuccimarra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:40 PM > To: James Bucknell; Giles Dickerson > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [313] Biofeedback replacing DJs / Neil Stephenson's > Ideas > > I read an article about BT where he said he had a bio-feedback mechanism > and he WANTED to eventually use it as some sort of synth or sequencer > controller or something. I don't think he uses it yet other than maybe to > see what brainstate he gets into when he's spinning or making music or > something. > > At 03:24 PM 11/15/2001 -0500, James Bucknell wrote: > > > >stellac (sp?) an australian based performance artist in the 80s used > >biofeedback. he would place electrodes on himself that would generate > >music on a > >computer. it would also feed electrical impulses to his muscles causing > >muscular > >spasms that would make him more twitchy than the crack heads of > yesteryear > >selling bike seats on avenue a. sort of a bio feedback loop. i saw him at > the > >art gallery of nsw in maybe 1987. > > > >some trance djs were telling me that bt uses some type of biofeedback > >mechanism > >in his live performances. don't know any of the details. probably the > more he > >farts the more epic the breakdown. > >james > >www.jbucknell.com > > > > > > > > > >"Giles Dickerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/15/2001 01:25:36 PM > > > >To: 313@hyperreal.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >cc: (bcc: James Bucknell/Magazines/Hearst) > >Subject: [313] Biofeedback replacing DJs / Neil Stephenson's Ideas > > > > > > > > > >If you're interested in this concept (whiuch is entirely not happening > >yet ofcourse) I reccfomend you all read a fantastically entertaining > >book called "The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson. He is the author of > >snowcrash, a book that to me embodies the exact type of visual > >experience that electronic music brtings to my senses. > > > >- Giles > > > >D I G I T A S // B O S T O N > >-- > >Giles Dickerson > >Art Director > >800 Boylston Street > >Boston, MA > >02199 > >-- > >mobile 617 899 9635 > >office 617 369 8601 > > > >''Taking no risk is to accept > > the certainty of long-term failure." > > > > > ---------- > > > From: Brendan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:40 PM > > > To: '313@hyperreal.org' > > > Subject: [313] Biofeedback replacing DJs? > > > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991563 > > > > > > "A computerised DJ that uses feedback from the dancers to generate new > > > music > > > has been developed by artificial intelligence experts at > > > Hewlett-Packard, > > > meaning clubbers may soon only have themselves to blame if they do not > > > like > > > the music they are dancing to..." > > > > > > I don't think it'll take off myself... > > > > > > Brendan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
