source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:52:03 -0700 Subject: Re: Partch's instruments are for newband only From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" Tuner's: >It just reminds me of the Gamelan Sekar Jaya performance I saw a month ago >in Marin: at the end of the concert, the players cordially invited the >entire audience to come down and bang on their gamelan instruments. That's how it was when we had the Partch instruments in San Diego, too (must be a Left Coast kind-of thing...). Our only stipulation to the audience was that they refrain from playing on the cloud-chamber bowls with platform shoes (it was the 70's, ya know!) For the record, as reported in the BHPS newsletter (11/12/95) re: Newband at Lille Festival: "After the applause finally died down, with the house lights up high, a crowd of interested people, including me, stampeded towards the stage area, as if at a pop concert. Dean is a most approachable person, and despite the demands of the performance, seemed quite happy to answer questions, allowed us to crawl all over the instruments - except the cloud-chamber bowls, which were very carefully packed away - so I too have touched a chromelodeon." (Roger Merrick) It was always great fun for us to hang out with the audience, answer any questions, demonstrate the instruments up close. Only drag was if we had a load-out from the venue. Many a late night... Cheers, Jon |--------------------------------------------------| | Jonathan M. Szanto | .....sound-magic..... | | Backbeats & Interrupts | ....visual beauty.... | | jszanto@adnc.com | ..experience-ritual.. | |--------------------------------------------------| Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:18 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06661; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:18:46 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06642 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA13779; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:48:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:48:47 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu