[NewMusic] Mats and his Weevil electronic sax

[jacob felix heule]

That set-up looks pretty small. Leave the tenor at home and you've got
the same amount of stuff. Try playing sax and drums -- a bad idea.

I haven't seen that horn, but Mats told me about it. It's packed with
electronics so it doesn't really work like a sax anymore. Open and
closing pads effects photocells. Contact points on the keys, etc.
Seems like it would be scary to blow any amount of saliva into
something like that, but I guess it's probably been waterproofed. I
get the impression that there isn't a very logical way to play it.
Just go nuts pretending to play a sax and hear some weirdo electronics
instead.

Shudder/Yellowcake/Butterfist last night was great.

j

On 8/6/07, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of grobair at emusician.com
> Subject: [NewMusic] Mats and his Weevil electronic sax
>
> Has anyone seen or heard this?
>
> http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/pages/weevilsaxes.htm
>
>
>
> PG:
> Electronic saxophones...yuck!
>
> I'd rather play in shudder/butterfist and surround myself with
> electronics...that way all you wired-up folks have to schlep all the
> gear.

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