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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:34:28 -0600
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Yeeeeeeehaw! The return of Magnus!
So glad yer back, pal! Waiting on those poems.
And Mo, stylin' slogan for studio R.
>studio R
>stirring your senses in a senseless world
>http://moritzR.de
>exotica@web.de
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:14:30 -0600
From: "Colleen Pyles" <colleen7@ireland.com>
Subject: (exotica) therimin?
Ok, what IS a theremin?
colleenintexas
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:21:40 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) therimin?
Quoting from the Kurstin's site:
Imagine standing in front of the theremin, in an invisible sphere of its electro-magnetic field. As your right hand moves further from the loop antenna, the sound gets louder. As your left hand gets closer to the left antenna, the pitch gets higher - if the rest of your body happens to move, it will also effect the pitch. By waving your left hand slowly towards and away from the antenna, you can make the theremin sound like a police car siren. Any part of your body can effect it, as well as surrounding bodies, objects, and quite possibly, invisible entities!
Not exactly clear? - try this nice page at:
http://www.137.com/theremins/
You can get the idea by using this mouse-theremin called "MouSing":
http://www.sagebrush.com/mousing.htm
lousmith@pipeline.com
colleen7@ireland.com wrote:
>
Ok, what IS a theremin?
colleenintexas
Colleen
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:25:46 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) record owning blues
Woke up this morning
looked at my shelves
wished I didn't have any
I'm serious.
I like them.
I love finding them and all.
I just don't want them anymore.
All I did for three months was make CDR's. Then as the new year came and I
realized I needed to think about other things, I finished phase one and
took a rest.
In phase one, I got rid of almost all the exotica and lounge. All the
Fifties swinging big band material.
In phase one I got rid of about half my records (though some of them are
still lingering here in boxes intended for ebay.)
In phase one I got rid of the things I thought I might not miss.
I got rid of the things where I didn't need the records, just the music.
About three years ago, I heard some Sammy Davis Jr and realized what was
great about him. So I started buying Sammy records whenever I saw them.
Which isn't that often. Still, a couple of years later you have 14 Sammy
records.
Not much if you're a real collector. If you're a real collector you want
all of them.
But I'm not real in THAT way.
So now I have two (great) ALL-SAMMY CD's and I kept about three of his
records just for the hell of it. (In case I decide to become a DJ in my
fifties.)
So now I'm in phase two. And phase two is about getting rid of almost
everything else. My idea is that someday, rather than having shelves
filled with records, I'll have like four wooden boxes. Maybe I'll have
them custom built since they'll have to be longer than your average milk
crate. Maybe the width of an Ikea Ivar shelf.
I'll have one box with soundtracks, emphasis on crime jazz and groovy
sixties stuff. One box with NOW sound. One box with singing, emphasis on
soft pop. One box with jazz, including the groovy fake jazz.
(Oops where do I put the country? Make that five boxes.)
It's really true. I wish all my records were on CDR. Trouble is that in
phase one I was easily AS obsessed with making CDRs as I've ever been
obsessed with finding or buying records. More. It was my full time job.
I can't do that again. If I let myself totally feel the need to get rid of
everything, I'll just sit here everyday all day making CDR's.
I've made ten jazz CDR's since Monday when I let myself start making them
again. I started on the jazz because I've been listening to jazz again.
I've been listening to the jazz CDR's I made in phase one.
I've been buying those Cinematic Orchestra style CD's and now I want to
listen to jazz again.
I'd rather listen to one of my jazz CDR's than one of my jazz records.
AND I'd rather listen to a CDR I made from my former collection than to a
new jazz CD that I could buy.
Right now I'm making a CDR of this beautiful sounds-like-crime-jazz Shelly
Manne and his Men LP called "The Gambit" which I probably haven't listened
to since I bought it five years ago. I might even keep this one since I'm
keeping the crime jazz and this will fit with the Shelly Manne "Peter Gunn"
LP. But I'll put two more Shelly Manne LP's on here and get rid of them.
Sorry to those of you still with us. Just meant to sing the blues, not the
explanation.
I'm soon getting a Vinyl website that will contain a diary and I won't need
to pour it out here anymore.
AZ
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Date: 18 Jan 2001 16:25:25 -0500
From: Eric Taub <eric_taub@wgbh.org>
Subject: (exotica) Foods of the Tiki Gods
Foods of the Tiki Gods
Remember the Polynesian craze of the '50s and '60s? Americans are taking =
another look at that beloved silliness. Rest of story here:
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:21:40 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) therimin?
Quoting from the Kurstin's site:
Imagine standing in front of the theremin, in an invisible sphere of its electro-magnetic field. As your right hand moves further from the loop antenna, the sound gets louder. As your left hand gets closer to the left antenna, the pitch gets higher - if the rest of your body happens to move, it will also effect the pitch. By waving your left hand slowly towards and away from the antenna, you can make the theremin sound like a police car siren. Any part of your body can effect it, as well as surrounding bodies, objects, and quite possibly, invisible entities!
Not exactly clear? - try this nice page at:
http://www.137.com/theremins/
You can get the idea by using this mouse-theremin called "MouSing":
http://www.sagebrush.com/mousing.htm
lousmith@pipeline.com
colleen7@ireland.com wrote:
>
Ok, what IS a theremin?
colleenintexas
Colleen
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:53:47 -0500
From: itsvern@attglobal.net
Subject: (exotica) Atlantic kahiki article
The February issue of 'The Atlantic' magazine has a short article about
the closing of the Kahiki restaurant, focusing on the issue on how to
decide which architecture to preserve and which to let fade away.
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Date: 19 Jan 2001 10:08:32 +0000
From: susi@nme.com
Subject: (exotica) theremin
I play the theremin, it is the most beautiful of every instrument in the world and totally unique - you should check out the video "theremin - a space odyssey" which is a complete history of the instrument and it's inventor Leon Termin (who was nearly murdered by the KGB!!) - it's currently going through a huge revival - the greatest player is Clara rockmore (deceased) but you can hear the theremin played to beautiful effect in The Flaming Lips, Cornelius or Pram. Anyone want to know any more, you can mail me.
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:06:48 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Jazz: Mom's Doing It Too
OK, Alan, now play the game of which Talking Head you would have liked to see spinning the history of Jazz on this show. I think we both wish your pal "Howie" (or whatever you called H.P. in those old posts) had been invited along. But then again, history like this must be presented in a polite non-anarchic fashion. I also would have liked to hear Don Byron on Ellington (or others).
Hey, and how come they didn't mention Western Swing (as if I don't know the answer)?
lousmith@pipeline.com
alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com> wrote:
I'm allowing myself another comment because I'm going to criticize another
aspect of the show.
It's boring.
<<Satchmo snip>> he got this new manager and that white manager (with a
noticeably Jewish name) was a tough guy who, according to Gary Giddins, had
salamis hanging from the ceiling in his office.
Who gives a rat's ass???!!!!
If a detail speaks to how the music was developed, okay. But the show is
filled with useless biographical data that might be interesting in a
documentary about that individual's life but just grinds this story to a halt.
You could introduce another musician to the story in the time you're taking
to talk about some tough Jew with salamis on the ceiling.
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