[NewMusic] Mats and his Weevil electronic sax

[David Slusser]

On Aug 6, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Jacob Lindsay wrote:
>> My favorite "electronic" saxophone set-up is
>> Butcher's
>> amplification/feedback set up.  Simple, AND it makes
>> sense.
>
> Oh...and plus, it sounds good.  Duh?

Curious what Butcher does. If, like me, you use the actual
acoustic properties of the saxophone to drive the electronics,
it makes sense.  The sax part of the Weevil sax seems inci-
dental, unrelated or even irrelevant.  At Noise Pancakes, my
rig has a mic in the bell, and the column of air in the horn
is what is controlling all the racket.  I stumbled upon this
in grade school, when I put the mic of the school's Wollensak
tape recorder in the bell of my tenor, with the playback volume
up.  With just a little pressure, but not sounding a note, I
could control the feedback with articulation and fingering.
Is that what Butcher does?