>From: Philip Gelb <phil@philipgelb.com>
>
>>I think we should take it to the next level... how about a computer
>>simulation program that eliminates the physical shakuhachi and even
>>the player all together?
>
>that is called a sampler. Samplers have put a huge amount of
>musicians out of work
Fewer folks making a living playing music for tv shows, commercials
and the like. Pity. On the other hand, no sampler, however "true
to life" it might be, will ever equal the experience of a live
performance. Just ain't got no sex appeal.
John Neptune played a memorial concert for his late father here on
Tuesday, at the Peace Resource Center where his father was a long
time member (and director?). Quite a different program for John,
who I've seen in concert many times. Mixing it up with a koto (of
course), a cello and hand percussion, his new program tends to run
more towards classical music, with only one number held over from
his old program.
The Peace Resource Center is also the Church of the Bretheren. A
small venue (probably 100 people or so, max), it has great
acoustics and it's impossible to get far enough away from the
players to feel separate from them.
Sampled sounds? Hell, even his CD's couldn't compete.
Don't know if John is touring or just home for a visit, but if you
get a chance to catch his latest concert work, it's worth the price
of admission.
bj
-
_____________________________________________
List subscription information is at:
http://communication.ucsd.edu/shaku/listsub.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 06 2004 - 14:09:34 PST