[NewMusic] Lehn/Robair tour vids online

[Matt Davignon]

On 4/10/07, Robair, Gino <grobair at emusician.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
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