Dear Folks at Different Skies, Mike Metlay broke the news to you, but he did not tell you why the authors wanted to come...to hear Space Music. I am sure...
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JEMPolyUnRex@...
Jun 13, 2005 10:53 pm
What a wonderful opportunity! Sci-Fi and E-Music were meant for each other. Niven and Poumelle could potentially walk away extremely inspired by this event and...
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Rus Foster
paintswithsound
Jun 14, 2005 6:50 am
I may have a bead on a server for the DS file sharing situation. We're trying out a new drummer, and it turns out that he was a former business partner with...
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Mike Metlay ++ Atomic...
mmetlay
Jun 15, 2005 3:59 am
Rus, Free or cheap servers are very handy but they need colocation to be useful to us... and that's what costs. Let me explore the options and if it looks like...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 17, 2005 10:45 am
Hi all, Unlike in previous two years, I'm not going to bring any pre-composed material to DS - (did I hear a sigh of relief somewhere? ;-) Still, I have a...
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Mike Metlay
mmetlay
Jun 17, 2005 5:15 pm
Me me me. As always. Small and ugly should be a leadpipe cinch for me. mike ... -- "Hey, I didn't say it wasn't FUN poop." (k.snyder) ...
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darkstr1746@...
darkstr717
Jun 17, 2005 5:24 pm
Sign me up!!! Can't wait for the "big the beautiful, the small and the ugly" great concept. The execution should be a total hoot. kind regards john duval ... ...
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Greg Waltzer
egwaltzer
Jun 17, 2005 8:14 pm
I like the big, small, ugly, beautiful concept. I was thinking about doing some "vector" based improvisations, where the beginning and end points are defined...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 18, 2005 11:12 am
... Nice! Welcome aboard! ... You're signed! ... Good! Do you want to join in with me, Mike and John, Greg? Then we would have the four players that are needed...
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Mike Metlay ++ Atomic...
mmetlay
Jun 18, 2005 4:38 pm
... Righto. ... Give John the... um... hmmm. Do you consider guitar to be small or big? He's definitely on the beautiful side, tho. ... And all Greg needs to...
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Jim Combs
jimcombsus
Jun 18, 2005 6:10 pm
... I love the idea but Iım the last person you want keeping time in 5, especially with a silent beat;^) Consider me an alternate for the all things big and...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 18, 2005 6:18 pm
... I'll let everybody else choose their "look" from what is left after "small and ugly" and take the remaining one myself (isn't that pretty damn generous?...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 18, 2005 6:28 pm
... Count yourself considered! :-) Actually, we don't have to be rigidly restricting the number of players, either - each of the four "looks" needs to have a...
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Rus Foster
paintswithsound
Jun 18, 2005 6:36 pm
Otso I think I get your intention on the 5/4 idea. Count me in. Hopefully it will yield some coherent output. I love playing in odd times, but I've never done...
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Giles Reaves
gilesreaves
Jun 18, 2005 7:42 pm
... Sign me up for anything! Must - get - "Otso" - fix - in - 2005 - ! Giles Reaves...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 18, 2005 8:44 pm
... Marvellous! ... Hey, we could do that as the sixth "movement";! It was the Brubeck tune that brought the idea to me in the first place: "Take 5" suddenly...
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darkstr1746@...
darkstr717
Jun 19, 2005 2:21 am
forget all that....... just go with the "loss of balance" part! who needs anything else? LMAO!!!! john ... I'll let everybody else choose their "look" from...
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darkstr1746@...
darkstr717
Jun 19, 2005 5:53 am
ok, who's the wise ass callin' me beautiful!! yikes! hahaha Will probably bring a midi guitar this time. Not sure about a keyboard... i want to travel as...
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Brian Good
chetroketl
Jun 20, 2005 3:03 am
... You rang, sir? What do you have in mind? Brian...
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Mike Metlay ++ Atomic...
mmetlay
Jun 20, 2005 3:50 am
... I laughed at that last sentence until I remembered that our little gang of "talentless knob turners" includes players with jazz background in keyboards,...
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Rus Foster
paintswithsound
Jun 20, 2005 4:07 am
Hmmm Might go over well.....except that this is supposed to be a SPACE MUSIC event! I can see it now.....TONIGHT! Space Music and Compelling Visuals(with a...
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Mike Metlay ++ Atomic...
mmetlay
Jun 20, 2005 4:33 am
Guys, It's mid-June, and as part of the promotional ramp-up for DS2k5, the DS2k4 material is finally coming together. Tim Walters and David Tristram have done...
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Joe McMahon
pemungkah
Jun 20, 2005 5:44 am
... Meditate on the fact that "empty" does not mean "silent". Possibilities open....
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Gert van Santen
gertvansanten
Jun 20, 2005 6:13 am
... Beautiful!!! ... LOL!! I wasn't there, but somehow it gives me the feeling that I was. I would change the last word of Paul Vnuk's line in "jnuk", btw....
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Jason Proctor
redfish
Jun 20, 2005 6:24 am
... Paul Nagle: ordered some greenery from LA, which arrived forthwith! :-)...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 20, 2005 8:15 am
... Right! Also, if you think about the rhythm backing in "Take 5", the downbeat is actually "empty" and the emphasis is on the eight-note after it...which in...
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Otso Pakarinen
ozoneplayer2000
Jun 20, 2005 8:19 am
... No sir, I didn't. It was the phone. ;-) ... Fancy doing a jazzy ambient piece in 5/4 ending in "Take 5"? Otso...
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Nick Rothwell
manmustmove
Jun 20, 2005 10:00 am
... (i) artwork and design are gorgeous; (ii) typo in bookletinside ("edited only for lengh"). Oh: maybe that's a clever intentional joke? Haa. -- nick...
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Phil Raymondo
philraymondo
Jun 20, 2005 11:13 am
... Yowza! Put me down for one! Where do I send the check and for how much? Phil...
