PETER NAMLOOK IS PHIL GRAMM in the NEW ACTION THRILLER
"ELECTRO-POLITICAL-WANK-FEST!!!"
Donkey Rhubarb's "Steel Drum" sounds? It's yer basic analog FM
percussive sound. I didn't make the steel drum connection until
after I'd listened to it for a while. Lots of analog FM on that
disk, especially the 3 oscillator FM in the rhythm tracks --
those bubbling sounds.
A friend of ours who is completely unfamiliar with electronic
music was over last night and heard a little of DR and said it
sounded
like someone 'rubbing balloons together.'
On the Icct Hedral front, being a former orchestral cellist I have
two observations:
1. Classical players can't swing. Listen to the original and then
the orchestrated version, and the violins at the beginning sound
kind of stiff, like they're thinking "he wants me to play WHAT
over and over?"
2. The symphony orchestra (the # and placement of players of
different
instruments) has evolved such that it's possible for a good
orchestrator to achieve sonic transparency in a complicated
arrangement. Each instrument has it's own timbral niche and they
don't mush up with other instruments unless you want them to.
3. Glass did a good job on orchestration, if what you wanted to
hear was the interplay between the different lines in Icct Hedral.
The original is better for the inclusing of the MS20 percussion line.
--
Bob Dole has been adopted by an Indian tribe.
They've re-christened him "Dances with Lobbyists"
kent.williams@cadsi.com
[Kent Williams/CADSI/2651 Crosspark Rd/Coralville IA 52241/(319)626-6700]