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What a tremendous festival! Great lineups and well organized. Congrats to Jim Comb. Paul, you and Gerber were outstanding. It was a very inspiring set.

Well....I just braved this movie and yet again, I am disappointed in a movie called Sci-Fi....the whole feel of the movie felt like saving private ryan with nothing but action, action, guns, and a little bit of aliens thrown in the mix to call it a sci-fi movie...
yet again, just like skyline, they did not really explain why they were here, yes, maybe they did, but through newscasts, about using our water resources and to conquer us..blah blah blah.....
I can not believe the drivel that hollywood keeps pumping out of so called sci-fi movies...esp enough with the shake camera moves....gets old and drives me nuts....

okay...NEXT....hahahaha

So often action or horror movies are erroneously labeled Sci-Fi. I will go so far to say that Aliens, a movie I love, is really just an action/horror movie that is set in space. A setting does not necessarily define a film's genre.

I just downloaded the app for Reactable Mobile, and I am having a blast with it. I love the fact that you can use your own loops with it. It's nice to get away from conventional user interfaces and use a synth that you can carry in your pocket. I created a nice patch while in the waiting room of my doctor's office.

Anyone using an iPhone or iTouch for field recording?

the truth is the Moog is sort of a one trick pony.  What it does, it does well - I have a Model D - but it's not a very good synth for ambient, IMO.

I disagree. I find the Moogs to be very useful for ambient and have many more than one trick in them.

Dave, each episode gets better and better. Despite his horrible bedside manner, the Doc becomes an endearing character as time goes on.

That looks like an awesome bill. Wish I could go.

It was just a guy standing on a stage, mostly still, while a bunch of studio-based recordings unfolded.

I've seen solo pianists just sitting on a bench not moving anything but their hands (which are not always visible.) However, I don't think one has to be a Liberace to entertain an audience.

The nature of many genres of electronic music is repetition via automation. What's the difference between an arp, step sequencer, sequencer, loop-building, pre-recorded loops, or an iPod?  It's all hands-free music (with an occasional tweak, sometimes.)  Does Dilberto also include Tangerine Dream in his criticism because of their automation?

I think what sets Klaus Shulze apart from a talented top-notch laptop performer is mostly stage presence and name recognition.

As technology advances and new and innovative user interfaces are introduced, both performer and reviewer have to get with the times. There has to be something more than just music coming from the stage; be it emotions evoked by body and facial expressions, dancing girls, colorful blinking lights, mind-bending video projections, odd and oversized glasses, playing the keyboard with your feet, etc.

On second thought, perhaps Liberace was right.

I saw Rich play in Asheville, NC about 6-7 years ago. You would think a hip place like that would draw some kind of a crowd. Including the three of us from Tenn. there were about 13 in attendance (including the other performers.) It was bad promotion. I had called the venue (a seedy one at that) to confirm Rich would be there. They were unsure which Robert Rich was going to be there. Asheville also had a DJ by that name. The promoter dropped the ball.

Yesterday we had a show in little Johnson City, TN, and with a little bit of promotion we had over 35 paid listeners in the audience. There was no big name like Robert Rich or Steve Roach. We had mention with pix in three newspapers, and we promoted it heavily on the internet. In the past, with more promotion and before the local college let out, we had shows with as many as 90 in attendance.

So I guess my point is, perhaps the promoters are not doing their job. Publicity, timing, and venue are critical.

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