[NewMusic] Lehn/Robair tour vids online

[Robair, Gino]

Damon wrote:
<<Great trio. I wouldn't mind hearing a little more of this kind of thing
out of you on the home front. >>

When I work with players that will go there, it happens. It's hard to play
that way if the group is too loud or busy, because the timbral subtlety in
what I do (at least) is lost. There were some nice moments the other night
in this vein with the Raskin Quartet and Yumi Hara.

<<Congratulations on the Yellowcake Wire review too.>>

Thanks. Actually, I emailed the writer, Julian, with some info about how our
trio works (and specifically about what I mean with "energized surfaces" and
"voltage made audible" because the phrases were being misinterpreted in
reviews). It's funny how writers get nasty (not Julian, obviously) when you
describe your work in a new way, or reword something to get at a new
meaning. Obviously, we've seen this happen with Braxton and Sun Ra.

All I did was use an appropriate term to describe how I approach my
instruments, and then I get a couple of wiseass guys in the media giving me
a hard time! Like I give a shit.... :-) But anyway....

There have been entire gigs and sessions where I haven't actually hit
anything, so saying that I play "percussion" is misleading --  when in fact
I use *some* percussion instruments, but much of the time they are
"energized" by bows, horns, friction, etc.

Don't even get me started about the "Fricative School" of playing, and how
the reviewers have absolutely no idea what their talking about when they
describe the intriguing work of, say, Ninh LeQuan, Chris Cogburn, or Sean
Meehan (among others). It's like saying Keith Rowe plays guitar! Well, okay,
he uses a guitar as a table...