Hey, I was wondering if anybody saw both the Naked City 2003 show and the recent performance of "Torture garden" material by a Wayne Hortvitz group and how they compare. Also I think there has been other Naked City cover projects. Do the real group still do it better?? I was also kind of curious if Wayne Horvitz digged out all those old samples or he did something new? Did he really have them lying around fro ten years? They are pretty important in the Naked City sound, especially Torture Garden stuff. Actually I hope they will somehow keep playing and do some new stuff. I'd love to hear that Fred Frith "algerian" thing they did. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
I was also kind of curious if Wayne Horvitz digged out all those old samples or he did something new? Did he really have them lying around fro ten years? They are pretty important in the Naked City sound, especially Torture Garden stuff. granted, it was quite a while ago, but i spoke with wayne about his sounds at a zony mash show. he's got such a distinctive bag of tricks. anyway, he told me he spent hours and hours in the 80's programming his own sounds on (i think) a DX7. he didn't want to ditch all that work when he switched keyboards (after all, it's 'his' sound), so he's got all the sounds loaded into some box, which then patches in to his nord keyboard. he also uses some effects pedals. so, my guess is he's still got them around. sean
I was also kind of curious if Wayne Horvitz digged out all those old samples or he did something new? Did he really have them lying around fro ten years? They are pretty important in the Naked City sound, especially Torture Garden stuff.
granted, it was quite a while ago, but i spoke with wayne about his sounds at a zony mash show. he's got such a distinctive bag of tricks. anyway, he told me he spent hours and hours in the 80's programming his own sounds on (i think) a DX7. he didn't want to ditch all that work when he switched keyboards (after all, it's 'his' sound), so he's got all the sounds loaded into some box, which then patches in to his nord keyboard. he also uses some effects pedals.
so, my guess is he's still got them around.
Wayne is IMHO, the undisputed master of the DX-7, one of the most difficult to program keyboards ever made, at least without a computer editor. He currently uses a Yamaha TX-7, which is a little table-top box of the same vintage as the DX, it's essentially a DX without the keyboard.
Didn't make it to the Amsterdam summit but Wayne's Torture Garden here in Seattle sure left me smiling. Tim Young on guitar totally shredded through the material with such force, passion and precision. Made it seem like it was all so easy. Rocked my brains out. Between Tim's guitar and Brad Mowen's amazing vocal acrobatics there wasn't a moment that made me missed Zorn's saxophone blasts. Loved the fact that this show happened at a standing room, drink on hand, rock club enviroment; where this music belongs, rather than at a stiff reserved seating posh theatre. Arthur Gadney <a_gadney@hotmail.com> wrote: Hey, I was wondering if anybody saw both the Naked City 2003 show and the recent performance of "Torture garden" material by a Wayne Hortvitz group and how they compare. Also I think there has been other Naked City cover projects. Do the real group still do it better?? I was also kind of curious if Wayne Horvitz digged out all those old samples or he did something new? Did he really have them lying around fro ten years? They are pretty important in the Naked City sound, especially Torture Garden stuff. Actually I hope they will somehow keep playing and do some new stuff. I'd love to hear that Fred Frith "algerian" thing they did. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
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Arthur Gadney -
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Sean Westergaard