Re: [microsound] electronic music, live?

[jayrope <jayrope@xxxxxx>]

danny that ios wonderful - this little excerpt from pynchon GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO DO
WHATVER soundwise
since a long time actually - felt like meeting a friend to read thgis for the first
time some years ago to me...

jayrope

Danny Wyatt wrote:

>         A sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles burst from a kind of juke box at the
> far end of the room.  Everybody quit talking.  The bartender tiptoed back,
> with the drinks.
>         "What's happening?" Oedipa whispered.
>         "That's by Stockhausen," the hip graybeard informed her, "the early crowd
> tends to dig your Radio Cologne sound.  Later on we really swing.  We're the
> only bar in the area, you know, has a strictly electronic music policy.
> Come on around Saturdays, starting midnight we have your Sinewave Session,
> that's a live get-together, fellas come in just to jam from all over the
> state, San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Diego---"
>         "Live?"  Metzger said, "electronic music, live?"
>         "They put it on tape, here, live, fella.  We got a whole back room full of
> your audio oscillators, gunshot machines, contact mikes, everything man.
> That's for if you didn't bring your ax, see, but you got the feeling and you
> want to swing with the rest of the cats, there's always something
> available."
>         "No offense," said Metzger, with a winning Baby Igor smile.
>
> (Pynchon, Thomas.  _The Crying of Lot 49_.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1965.)
>