A Boy and His Tuba

[ArnoldGottlieb]

I think he's awesome. I've seen him do the one man show in New York City at "Piano's" a few times.
If you like it it's good, if you don't it's not.
I like it.
Peace.
ASG

[The Jackson]

If I a clip-on pup, I could totally plug the sweet 186 into my Digitech GNX1. The GNX1 can do just about all popular [electric guitar] effects out there, do one degree or another.

Granted, though, using a contrabass instrument through an effects loop and amp made for a treble instrument might not sound too beautiful, I think it's worth a shot

[Rick Denney]

I have performed David Lang's Are You Experienced? for Narrator, Electric Tuba and Chamber Orchestra. I need to scan in the cadenza and post it here, as it is just like a Hendrix guitar solo and uses effects boxes and feedback. It is very cool and very difficult. It was written for Jay Rozen, who helped me get it together in only one week by giving me some advice on electronics and a very fine recoding of him with his old chamber group.

Jay is one of the few who can play the avant-garde electronic stuff and make it entertaining. I think he succeeds by winking at the audience--the humor is there enough so that everyone is free to laugh and listen with relaxed ears.

Many years ago, I entered a photograph of a bicycle racer in a photo contest. I had applied a gimmick by making a contact positive and then another contact negative using Kodalith, which is ultra-contrast film for copy work. Doing that reduces a picture to just two colors--black and white. It was appropriate for that photograph and it won its category. The next year, I tried the gimmick again at the same contest. That photograph was okay, but one of the judges asked the question, "what artistic purpose was served by reducing this image to Kodalith?" In the first picture, it revealed the essence of the motion, removing the identity of the rider, which was a distraction. But in the second photo, it was just an effect. I never forgot that question, and I am leery of any mere effects in my photographs, or in music.

All tools can be used to higher purpose in the right hands. But it's the result, not the method or its novelty, that defends its use.

Rick "who thinks being really musical is more novel than being different" Denney

[MileMarkerZero]

I was hoping it really wouldn't would get to this point. As long as the guy is successful at what he does, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with his set up. Personally, I found it fascinating how intricate his setup is.

Perhaps you haven't been properly jaded by these, (as I have):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7w40LVZ-AU

Is that Tomita in the background?