From greg davis Sent Wed, Oct 20th 1999, 19:47
From greg davis Sent Wed, Oct 20th 1999, 19:47
i was also at this show at the MCA in chicago. he pretty much played and mixed tracks from a laptop but it was very great to hear his music at such a loud volume and truly feel the low frequencies that he uses. (home stereos dont normally do his music justice) and also the performance was at about 3am. so it was great to hear his music at that time of the day. i really think the material that he uses, determines what the music sounds like. he is really into the concept of "process". i think he takes the cage-ian approach and tries to remove himself from the music. (although he still has to make decisions and ultimately he did develop his own software to get himself to where he is at) hes developed this software and he plugs the material into it and it makes the music. (im sure its more complicated than that). but i really think that the source material that he uses really determines what the finished piece will sound like. take "dok" for instance, it was made using processed bell tones recorded by christophe charles. this definitely makes it different from the other albums, and you can hear it. i think each one of his albums so far has a different character. i think mr. popp is making some very interesting music. hes developed his particular style and it works very well. the squarepusher remix is rather dark. kind of uncharacteristic of his other stuff. but i like it for that reason, that it is different, and i think the material (being the original sqpusher track) may be the reason why this sounds darker or different. sorry about the ramble. just some thoughts on oval. later, greg davis autumn records http//www.amug.org/~jkdavis/autumn