From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #116 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, April 15 1998 Volume 04 : Number 116 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Intelligent lighting--Long (was: Re: Terra Incognita) [roo@brown.edu (Kay] Caroline Lavelle [Marion Kippers ] Re: Intelligent lighting--Long (was: Re: Terra Incognita) ["Tom Ditto" ] Mila Drumke show info [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Mila Drumke show info [Philip David Morgan ] Lilith live cd *melt* [Paul2k ] Re: Intelligent lighting--notaslong [Paul2k ] Re: Intelligent lighting--notaslong [Richard ] Re: Various new albums, one new artist ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:00:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************** Stuart Myerburg (labspm@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu) ************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Angelos Kyrlidis Fri April 22 1966 Taurus Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Pablo Iglesias Thu April 23 1964 Positive Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 03 Taurus Joe Dembski Wed May 07 1952 Rumple Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus John Warren Mon May 08 1961 Taurus - the Ox Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Miss Megan Celia Koster Sun May 14 1978 Taurus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:03:20 -0400 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: Intelligent lighting--Long (was: Re: Terra Incognita) >> What is Intelligent Lighting? > >It's Smarter Than Your Average Lighting(tm). > >-jeff LOL! Okay, crash course in lighting from a part-time lighting designer. :) Most lights (non-intelligent) are like the type you see in smaller concert halls--they are focused in one place and do not move. They will give you really bright light in one color, and can be brought up or down depending on what part of the stage is being used. Most theatre and smaller venues use these, they are less expensive and were the only option until very recently. With the advent of computers, lights have gotten rather complicated. Intelligent lighting has joined computerized light and sound boards as part of the new wave (semi-intentional pun) of performance technology. So, intelligent lights can move around, change colors, follow the artists around on stage, introduce patterns into the projected light like flowers, leaves, or even logos and writing. The beam can narrow down to a tiny speck or widen out until you can't tell it's an individual light source. Lots of cool fun. The biggest name in this kind of stuff is Vari-lite, they will let you use their stuff, but only if you hire someone from their company to come in and run it. (Lots of hullaballoo about this in various technical theatre circles. Kind of like how ticketbazztard monopolizes their field...) In a nutshell, it's the sign of a big artist if they can afford to use intelligent lights on their tours. It's the kind of stuff that the Indigo Girls use, for example, or any of the awards shows. Good news for Happy--Samson is apparently giving her the star treatment, yay! Only venues with a pretty impressive rig can handle them, arenas and the like. They take a lot of juice, for one, and the accompanying controls are a nightmare. (more than a really big clapper. Of course, I've considered rigging up the lights in our theatre to a gigantic clapper just to see what would happen when people applauded, but it would probably blow out all the circuits. :] Anyways...) We had a sound and light show on campus last year and they loaded in all of this electronics stuff--lasers and special lights and boards etc. and I snuck into the control room to look around, and was just floored by the volume of gear that was needed to run the stuff. My friends say that I've been warped by all this theatre stuff--every time I walk into a performance hall, the first thing I do is look up to check out the rig. Sigh. Guess they're right, but it doesn't mean it's not really cool stuff. Gonna look into volunteering on the tour, if they'll have me. Neat. - --Kay np: Peter & Wendy (ooh, so cool.) nr: Aeschylus, the Eumenides (yet another paper. Cool class, though. Religion and Magic in ancient Greece...) - --------------------------------------------------- Kay S. Cleaves Brown University "...we are such stuff as dreams are made on..." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:19:56 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) From: Marion Kippers Subject: Caroline Lavelle Hi, Just thought some of you might be interested in this. Last Saturday I had the opportunity to talk to Caroline Lavelle, who is currently on tour with Loreena McKennitt. (I met Loreena as well, but that's a different story... I think I need some more time to write that). Anyway, I asked Caroline if there were any plans for a second album, and she told me that she's actually for about two-thirds done with recording it. After the tour with Loreena she'll finish it off, and then she'll have to decide whether to release it as it is, by herself on her own new label (to be called Ringing Tree Records), or to find a bigger company with more money to be able to make the album better quality. She didn't quite know what to do, yet. She said that the new songs are more focused, more structured than those on her first album "Spirit", and less traditional. She also mentioned doing music for films and theater plays, but that bit got lost in my memory... From what I heard this sounds really promising - - I don't like "Spirit" that much, and I think that's because it is so unfocused and unstructured, but I do love her voice and her cello playing. During Loreena's concert she sang "Bushes and briars" which was very nice as well. I'm looking forward to her new album and hope she'll be able to release it as she plans, later this year (autumn). BTW, another Loreena concert in the US has been added to the list: - - 9 May 1998 Chicago The Chicago Theatre 312 559 1212 (Tickets on sale April 11th at 11 am) Check out http://www.quinlanroad.com/tour2.html for the most up to date info. Best wishes, Marion - ---------------------- n.p. Loreena McKennitt - the mask and mirror (currently on a Loreena high...) n.r. Keri Hulme - The bone people (yep, finally got started) Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:10:17 -0400 From: "Tom Ditto" Subject: Re: Intelligent lighting--Long (was: Re: Terra Incognita) Kay Cleaves wrote: > Okay, crash course in lighting from a part-time lighting designer. :) snip snip > Gonna look into volunteering on the tour, if they'll have me. Neat. Thanks for the tutorial, Kay. I saw the capital lettering, Intelligent Lighting, and I thought, this must be a particular outfit that takes on the Stars, but I now I assume the term was used on the Terra Incognita web site as a generic expression, and the actual commercial or custom units still must be sussed. If the units are able to swivel on command, there is something I do called Pantomation which tracks actors automatically that might be added to the arsenal of Happy's handy hardware. Perhaps the actual Lighting Designer for the tour will join our little discussion, either front or back door, and give us the bird's eye low down on this caper. Dr. Tom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:11:17 +0100 (BST) From: nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg) Subject: Re: Philosophical Question. Bill wrote: > Would you file Happy Rhose's Warpaint disc with, say, Enya's in the > NewAge/WorldMusic/Instrumental section of your CD collection, or with, > say, Jonatha Brooke's in the Pop/Rock-N-Roll section? In my collection, Happy's CDs are filed under 'Pop' (the only other category being 'Classical'). Of your two categories, I'd say 'Pop/Rock-N-Roll' fits the bill (excuse pun). I certainly don't consider Happy to be 'New Age' (if you take a listen to 'SOS' on 'Equipoise' I think you'll see why I don't think Happy would either! ;-)) and, as her vocals are probably the chief attraction of Happy's music for me, 'Instrumental' would seem a singularly inappropriate category in which to place her. As for 'World Music'... nah, I don't see that either. To me 'World Music' has to use instruments or song structures that are traditional in non-western cultures. As far as I'm aware, Happy uses neither. 'Pop/Rock-N-Roll' is such a broad category that I think Happy would be quite at home there. The only more appropriate way to categorise her, IMO, would be under 'Good Music'! :-) TTFN Steve npimh: An Unidentified Piano Concerto - Mozart nr: My Life & Times - Jerome K. Jerome - -- Steve Fagg (nightwol@dircon.co.uk) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1313/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:38:41 -0700 From: "Larry S. Greenfield" Subject: Lisa Sanders and Joy Eden Harrison 4/26 LRT Helloooo Music Lovers! I'm delighted to announce the appearance of Lisa Sanders and Joy Eden Harrison at a Living Room Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, April 26, 1998. The show will take place at my house, and will start at 3 p.m. I hope to see all who can make it, as this promises to be a lot of fun. Suggested contribution for the performers will be 10 dollars per person attending. Please email me for location and directions if you are planning to attend. Seeya! -=-Larry-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:38:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Jumper Subject: Various new albums, one new artist In case anyone else out there follows these artists, two of my favorite male performers, Marc Cohn and Peter Hammill, have recently released new albums. I think at least Peter qualifies as a male Ecto artist of sorts. A third male singer-songwriter, Chris Isaak, supposedly has a new album due out in June or so. (If anyone can tell me what these artists have in common that leads me to classify them together, please let me know. :) After only a few listens each, I consider Marc's new album, _Burning the Daze_, to be fine, but not up to the (very high) standards of his first two albums, while Peter's album, _Everyone you Hold_, is more typical of what I would expect from him (although it's not one of his masterpieces). I'm not sure either disc will find it's way back to my CD player that often, but Marc's is something of a relative disappointment. In a more traditionally Ecto vein, I discovered Sue Garner's album, _to run more smoothly_, at the local Hear Music recently. For a loose comparison, I'd call her a crunchier, somewhat less ethereal Julee Cruise (of Twin Peaks soundtrack fame). There's a similar "floating" quality to the vocals. I've only listened through the entire album once, but I like it pretty well so far. Oh yeah -- she does a cover of Mary Margaret O'Hara's "Dear Darling". The disc says "Made in Canada", but the label's address is in Chicago. Does anyone know more about Sue? I've also been enjoying Clannad's latest, _Landmarks_, quite a bit; it has a nice blend of ballads and up-tempo tunes. Unfortunately, the first track seems to have a "skip" recorded in it, at least in the pressing available here. Has anyone else heard this problem? Greg np: _Her Infinite Variety: Celtic Women in Music and Song_ nr: ? (I guess I'm on "hiatus" at the moment) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:43:40 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Mila Drumke show info - ----- Forwarded message from Mila Drumke ----- Tommorow night, Mila puts on her boots, walks and does her best Nancy Sinatra imitation. Then, later this month, the band opens for Sonic Youth at Penn State's Movin' On Festival.... LOSER'S LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO NANCY SINATRA  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 @ 8  Fez 380 Lafayette @ Great Jones, NYC  Mila sings the immortal "Sugartown" with the LL House Band!  MEOW MIX  SATURDAY, APRIL 18 @ 8  269 E. Houston @ Suffolk, NYC  With Mila, Lyris, Tom Devito and Tony Shanahan  ARLENE GROCERY MUSIC AWARDS  TUESDAY, APRIL 21 @ 8  95 Stanton b/w Ludlow, NYC & Orchard, NYC  Mila, Lyris, Elissa, and guitarist Erik Della Penna kick off the First Annual Arlene Grocery Music Awards!  THE PHYRST  FRIDAY, APRIL 24 @ 9  State College, PA  Mila, Lyris, Mark and Tony step up for Penn State's Blue-and-White Weekend.  PENN STATE WITH SONIC YOUTH   SATURDAY, APRIL 25, TBA  Movin' On Festival, HUB Lawn  Mila, Lyris, Mark and Tony will appear at Penn State's outdoor amphitheater with Sonic Youth and Hum.  ARLENE GROCERY   SATURDAY, MAY 16 @ 9  Mila, Lyris, Mark and Elissa go cruisin' through the produce aisle at The Grocery.  - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:06:42 -0400 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Re: Mila Drumke show info Hmm.... _one_(!) Mila Drumke date I could do... (from the forwarded upcoming gigs courtesy of Jeff Wasilko): > ARLENE GROCERY > SATURDAY, MAY 16 @ 9 > Mila, Lyris, Mark and Elissa go cruisin' through > the produce aisle at The Grocery. Wait a minute... May 16!? I have a postcard from the Sean Altman snail-mail list (yes, as in the former member of Rockapella), which says he plans to be at Arlene Grocery earlier on that night (7:45 pm Eastern)...hmm, no reservations and FREE... maybe enough cash to take home his _SeanDEOMnium_ disc and one of Mila's if I'm impressed... Just one thing: if Mila and Co. plan to cruise the produce aisle, would we find Sean Altman in the deli section? (His postcard carries a _Philadelphia Daily News_ rave of his album, in which the critic claims, somewhere on the disc, that Altman "throws in a bit of his Bar Mitzvah party and phone calls to major labels, inquiring if he can come over and get a recording contract.") Hmm...will he be ordering whitefish salad to go, then? ;-) Philip David (add arugula, spread onto bread and toast for a nice occasional whitefish salad sandwich) 14 April, 1998 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:59:53 EDT From: Paul2k Subject: Lilith live cd *melt* We got the Lilith : A Celebration of Women in Music double disc cd in to the radio station today during my shift....yummm...i was ecstatic to say the least... first thing i did was to check the track listing to see which version of "Water is Wide" they put on there...it's the IG/Sarah/Jewel one...i nearly pissed my pants with glee when i saw that :) when i saw them do that at the first toronto lilith last summer, i melted... So, in a three song slot, i played that, September 67's "Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner" and Tara MacLean's "Hold Me Jordan" (that's how they listed it, ITWers)...the sound quality is pretty damn good except for lots of extraneous murmuring and babbling by the crowd that wasn't taken out :( It's quiet, but still audible...and the screams of fans is kind of annoying...and the loud clapping that sounds like someone is standing too close to an audience ambience mic... Personally, i feel that disc 2 has the stronger track listing...i know that it has "Water is Wide", Patty Griffin's "Cain", Wild Strawberries, Dar's "What do you Hear in these Sounds", Emmylou Harris doing "Going back to Harlan", Tara, Wild Colonials.... I can't wait for it to come out in the stores...supposedly, Arista is printing up a small amount of limited editions that will come in a bulkier package...there was mention of it in the latest ICE newsletter... other stuff: Salamander Crossing, a bluegrassy quartet out of the Pioneer Valley in MA (i think one of the group went to Amherst College), has a new album out on Signature Sounds called _Bottleneck Dreams_ (i think)...they do a beautiful cover of Blue Rodeo's "five days in may"... Comet 9 is a group. Kind of ambient, kind of funky...my station manager tried to describe them and came up with Pink Floyd meets Lucious Jackson. I played a track off their album and liked it... that's all for now, i guess Paul "i'm a coward, i'm neurotic, i'm just tired of living in here" Kim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:19:55 EDT From: Paul2k Subject: Re: Intelligent lighting--notaslong Yeah. What Kay said ;) Umm...hmmm...a little bit of here-and-there from me. Kay please correct me if i'm wrong in this post *grin* : if you've been to Sarah McLachlan's shows either on the Surfacing Tour or on the Fumbling Tour, you dig what the Intelligent Lighting is. She's got it up the wazoo. I believe her lighting director has been Graeme Nicols and from what i've glimpsed at, he controls most of the lighting from a computer and lighting console which is usually located around the soundboard. It's really cool to just watch the rigging above the stage move up and down and the lights swoosh around during the concert (when you go to lots of sarah concerts, you start to notice OTHER things like that ;) ). I talked with a friend of mine about the lighting for the lilith tour 'cuz she's a lighting design major and she was amazed at all the stuff they had on the scaffolding and the rigging...she was pointing out all the lights and how expensive they all were... When the Cowboy Junkies played at Amherst a couple years back, i got to help set up the lighting and see the lighting director fiddle with the Vari-lites and stuff...very cool. We also have some of them at the movie theater where i work...they throw patterns and spotlights all over the lobby and blend the heck out of you if you are standing in the wrong place. Paul "i'm blind! i'm blind!" Kim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:05:58 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Re: Intelligent lighting--notaslong Paul says: > if you've been to > Sarah McLachlan's shows either on the Surfacing Tour or on the Fumbling Tour, > you dig what the Intelligent Lighting is. She's got it up the wazoo. I > believe her lighting director has been Graeme Nicols and from what i've > glimpsed at, he controls most of the lighting from a computer and lighting > console which is usually located around the soundboard. It's really cool to > just watch the rigging above the stage move up and down and the lights swoosh > around during the concert Amen. About 3/4 of the way through the main set (Surfacing tour,) a ear-shattering electric guitar chord was synchronized *perfectly* with a one-second blast of high-frequency strobes aimed directly at the audience... closest I've come to an acid flashback since the 70s ;-) And, I think it was at the end of the set, the musicians evaporated from the stage in the darkness, leaving only a stage-wide bank of huge, eerie blue lights slowly rising from the floor up into the rigging above. We all had sudden thoughts of Roswell, NM. r - -- n.p. Dead Can Dance _Twilight Moons_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:16:53 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: Various new albums, one new artist Greg Jumper wrote: > > In case anyone else out there follows these artists, two of my > favorite male performers, Marc Cohn and Peter Hammill, have recently > released new albums. I think at least Peter qualifies as a male Ecto > artist of sorts. And Marc Cohn deserves a vague ecto mention because the new album has a track with The Ubiquitous Jane Scarpatoni [tm]. Also newly out is Lisa Gerrard's _Duality_. Very good, but once again, it's essentially "Dead Can Still Dance Without Brendan." jeff n.p. _Burning the Daze_, Marc Cohn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:54:21 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Intelligent lighting--notaslong Richard wrote: > And, I think it was at the end of the set, the musicians evaporated from > the stage in the darkness, leaving only a stage-wide bank of huge, eerie > blue lights slowly rising from the floor up into the rigging above. We > all had sudden thoughts of Roswell, NM. My fave lighting experience was the sorta dance Peter Gabriel did with the Varilites on the So tour. Very wild, though the technology's come even farther since then. > n.p. Dead Can Dance _Twilight Moons_ Hm? Is this a DCD I don't know? I just listened to the new CD by Lisa Gerrard and ..uh... someone else (too tired to go to the other room and look). At first listen, I like it: rather like The Mirror Pool but not as heavy... and I think I actually caught her singing in English at a couple points :-) n.p.: Butch Morris: Conduction 15: Where Music Goes II - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #116 **************************