From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #213 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, July 24 2000 Volume 06 : Number 213 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More on Napster ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Natalie Merchant Tour [tefinn@altavista.net] CD Release party in Denver [Neile Graham ] Re: Natalie Merchant Tour ["Knight of Wands" ] Re: CD Release party in (NOT Denver!!) Atlanta! [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:15:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: More on Napster Today's _Chicago Tribune_ has a sront-page story about issues surrounding Napster. It is on the web at http://chicagotribune.com/tech/news/article/0,2669,ART-45933,FF.html Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:34:38 -0400 (EDT) From: tefinn@altavista.net Subject: Natalie Merchant Tour Was anyone aware that Natalie Merchant was touring this summer? I just found out today that she has three shows here in the Philadelphia areanext month! One of them is only ten minutes from my house and I never heard about it!!! Her web site lists them as: 8/1/00 Sewell NJ @ The Center for the Performing Arts 8/2/00 Glenside Pa @ The Keswick Theater 8/3/00 Wilkes Barre Pa @ The Kirby Center There isn't any ticket info, but I understand they're available from Ticketmaster and at the window, day of show. Is anyone going to any of these shows? If I can still get tickets, I'll be going to the show in Sewell NJ. Tom - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:12:55 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: CD Release party in Denver I know we don't have too many ectophiles in Denver, but thought this was worth forwarding because I'm sure that many people would be interested in checking out these band links. - --Neile n.p. Kym Brown, Pygmalion >From: damon@changelings.com >X-Sender: nomad3@pop.mindspring.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:51:56 -0400 >To: diana@dianaobscura.com >Subject: Diana Obscura CD-Release Party > > > Treat your ears to a neo-classical musical feast > at the Diana Obscura CD-Release Party > Friday 7/28 at The Red Light Cafe - $5, all ages > Doors open at 8:00, Osaka starts the evenings music at 9:00 > > Join Diana, Carol, & Rene of APHELION, Chandler, > Damon, and Regeana of The CHANGELINGS, the band > Osaka and Cosmic Josh Brown on the sitar for the > CD-release party of Diana Obscura. This is certainly one of > the year's best shows for the money as this line-up of > classically trained and inspiring musicians play from the > heart. Mixing elements of neo-classical, ambient, ethereal > and exotic East Orient melodies, the Red Light Café is the > perfect setting for a laid-back evening, and sweet music for > the ears. -- Blu > > UPDATE: Aphelion will play a special set to round out the >evening. > > > > Diana Obscura http://www.dianaobscura.com > diana@dianaobscura.com > > Aphelion http://www.aphelion.dk > The Changelings http://www.changelings.com > Osaka http://home.earthlink.net/~jhighjr/main.html > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:19:32 -0400 From: "Knight of Wands" Subject: Re: Natalie Merchant Tour Yeah I am going to see her next Sunday the 30th right down the road here in Elmira (which, by the way, is *NOT* listed on the website!) The Natalie site is billing it as a "summer Appalachian folk music" tour & I cannot wait to see what kind of surprises Miss Merchant has in store. If anyone catches any shows sooner than 7/30, let us know!!!!!! Thanx, Scott - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 12:34 AM Subject: Natalie Merchant Tour > Was anyone aware that Natalie Merchant was touring this summer? > > I just found out today that she has three shows here in the Philadelphia areanext month! > One of them is only ten minutes from my house and I never heard about it!!! > Her web site lists them as: > > 8/1/00 Sewell NJ @ The Center for the Performing Arts > 8/2/00 Glenside Pa @ The Keswick Theater > 8/3/00 Wilkes Barre Pa @ The Kirby Center > > There isn't any ticket info, but I understand they're available from Ticketmaster and at > the window, day of show. > > Is anyone going to any of these shows? If I can still get tickets, I'll be going to the show > in Sewell NJ. > > Tom > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:47:32 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: CD Release party in (NOT Denver!!) Atlanta! I have no idea why my fingers typed "Denver" twice, when I know this is taking place in Atlanta. My brain is gone. Sorry, everyone. - --Neile n.r. Typos 'R' Us At 10:12 PM -0700 7/23/00, Neile Graham wrote: >I know we don't have too many ectophiles in Denver, but thought this was >worth forwarding because I'm sure that many people would be interested in >checking out these band links. > >--Neile > >n.p. Kym Brown, Pygmalion > >>From: damon@changelings.com >>X-Sender: nomad3@pop.mindspring.com >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:51:56 -0400 >>To: diana@dianaobscura.com >>Subject: Diana Obscura CD-Release Party >> >> >> Treat your ears to a neo-classical musical feast >> at the Diana Obscura CD-Release Party >> Friday 7/28 at The Red Light Cafe - $5, all ages >> Doors open at 8:00, Osaka starts the evenings music at 9:00 >> >> Join Diana, Carol, & Rene of APHELION, Chandler, >> Damon, and Regeana of The CHANGELINGS, the band >> Osaka and Cosmic Josh Brown on the sitar for the >> CD-release party of Diana Obscura. This is certainly one of >> the year's best shows for the money as this line-up of >> classically trained and inspiring musicians play from the >> heart. Mixing elements of neo-classical, ambient, ethereal >> and exotic East Orient melodies, the Red Light Café is the >> perfect setting for a laid-back evening, and sweet music for >> the ears. -- Blu >> >> UPDATE: Aphelion will play a special set to round out the >>evening. >> >> >> >> Diana Obscura http://www.dianaobscura.com >> diana@dianaobscura.com >> >> Aphelion http://www.aphelion.dk >> The Changelings http://www.changelings.com >> Osaka http://home.earthlink.net/~jhighjr/main.html >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:33:37 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Amy Denio and others Well, this afternoon was my Amy Denio concert. It was a lot of fun. I managed to get a fairly reasonable group after all. 12 people, which fills the space up pretty well. It was an interesting group too: 3 DJ's from KUNM (local college radio station), 1 poet who runs a small local record label, the owner of the best independent video store in town, the owner of a funky sandal store, and at least one performance artist. (Though not as generous a donating crowd as those computer sciene/engineer types.) Amy played a 45 minute set on accordian, and after a break, another 45 minute set on accoustic guitar. She told some amusing stories about the origins of her songs, and played pieces from many aspects of her career. She also sang in several different languages (Italian, Spanish and Czech - and English too). The piece that most wow'ed me was "Inner Id", mostly for it's odd and not totally pleasant effects. She started by playing accordian, and then began singing in ways that created really strange harmonic affects. Almost immediately, my eardrums started to vibrate, and eventually a lot of my skull did. The sound stopped coming from in front of me, and instead sounded as if it was originating inside my head. I spent some time trying to decide if the effect was painful, or just odd. I figured since I was thinking about it, it must not actually be painful. (Though a few people left at the break, in part because of headaches they got from that song.) It was a very interesting feeling. Amy said she'd love to play it for deaf people sometime. I'd be curious how they perceived it. I'm also curious how she perceives it while singing, but forgot to ask her repeatedly. Meth - I did mention your interest in houseconcerts. She is going to be back in NYC in September (I think) for a few weeks, working on a score for a new piece with the David Dorman dance group. She will be back in early December to premiere the piece at BAM, where she will be playing live with them. She doubted she'd be able to get away when she was there, but you might want to drop her a note anyway. That evening, Amy's partner Francisco Lopez, and Chicagoan Olivia Block, played a concert nearby. I'd heard some of Olivia's music before, and had a fair idea of what they would be doing. I find it intriguing, but it doesn't really do much for me. They both make field recordings of environmental sounds, and then play them on 3-d sound systems with live mixing. (Olivia said that in Chicago she often improvises live music over the mix, or has other musician improvising, which I think I would like better.) I don't mind this music as background, but found that as my primary focus, my mind tended to wander, A LOT. The music was performed in a comletely dark room. For Olivia, the chairs were arranged haphazardly, with her at a mixing board in the middle of the room. For Francisco, the chairs were formed into concentric circles facing outwards, and we were provided with optional blindfolds to eliminate what little we could see in the dark. His music built to very strong, almost overwhelming waves of thrumming white noise that cut off suddenly as the final act of the piece. As the lights came on, we were amazed to find a cockroach has been stunned into submission in the doorway. Even with prodding, it wouldn't do more than stagger around. So I guess we got off lucky. Probably only Joe Zitt is still reading at this point :) Amy & Francisco are going to Boulder in a few days, which will be the first time they will be doing a show together. They have a bunch of pre-recorded vocal tracks that Francisco is going to be mixing live, and Amy is going to be improvising more vocals on top of that. Should be interesting. neal ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #213 **************************