[NewMusic] Mats and his Weevil electronic sax

[Matt J. Ingalls]

> I heard Jorrit Dykstra play his lyricon the other nite, using a Cwejman

joritt let me try it out and it definitely wasn't for me - like this 
weevil thing, there are some anti-intuitive ways to control the synth, 
like embourchure pressure - which my feeling is if it doesn't work like 
something i'm used to doing on my acoustic horn, i would rather just use a 
keyboard or slider or 
something.. the keys on the thing too were not resistant either (feels 
identitcal to a casio midi horn) and made it hard to play runs "solidly"

i would agree that the lyricon definitely had a "higher resolution" than a 
midi wind controller, especially for wind pressure, but at least how 
joritt had it configured the mapping was weird and trying to play a 
gradual crescendo as you would on an acoustic horn was bit gradual on the 
lyricon, which was disappointing because for me, the only interest i have 
in the wind controller thing is the breath.  i've wanted for a while to do 
some of my computer stuff and add breath control ( kind of like how perkis 
uses his foot pedals) MIDI breath controllers really suck - they are made 
for recorder players or something (no resistence) i did some experiments 
once just blowing on a microphone and taking the RMS of the signal and 
that had far better results.  was going to get a headset mic and try to 
develop the concept but...

unfortunately i was playing the times joritt was using the lyricon so i 
didn't get a clear picture how he used it.

-m