[NewMusic] Mats and his Weevil electronic sax

[Michael Zelner]

On 8/6/07, Matt J. Ingalls wrote:

>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'm not sure about the Akai EWIs, but some of Yamaha's WX wind 
controllers have the option to adjust wind resistance by inserting 
rubber plugs into the bottom vents. I set up my WX7 this way, to have 
more of a sax/clarinet feel. The newer WX5 model comes with a 
reed-less recorder-style mouthpiece (in addition to the regular reed 
one) and can be set up in "recorder mode." It sounds as if  one you 
tried was like this.

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

It was great to see him playing a wind controller that has been out 
of production since 1980. (Apparently, Jorrit found his in a junk 
shop in 1999 -- see <http://www.jorritdijkstra.com/thelyricon.html>.)

For those not familiar with this instrument -- you've probably heard 
one on some popular recordings (e.g., Tom Scott's solo on Steely 
Dan's Peg or Wayne Shorter on Three Clowns from Weather Report's 
Black Market).

MZ


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