John's teeth filing techniques(was" Alternative performance devices")

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/30/03 9:33 AM, vze26m98 at vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
> I'll use another jazz example if I may: John Coltrane didn't move a
> whole lot on stage, closing his eyes and making relatively minor
> gestures across the keys of his saxophones. (I mean minor in comparison
> to other instrumental performers, not necessarily among Jazz
> saxophonists.)
> 
> I think his audience didn't need a lot of information about what he was
> up to, for most, they understood he was playing jazz on a saxophone.
> What notes he was playing might have interested some, but when we get to
> his filing of his teeth, or use of a metal mouthpiece, I think we've
> crossed a line where information about the performer's activity becomes
> pretty meaningless.

 no... I want to know more about the teeth filing(!). How much ? What kind
of file ? Did it make noise? Long filing sessions , breaks etc. ?