Re: (idm) Bjork on A&E

From eric hill
Sent Thu, May 14th 1998, 19:11

>> 
>> > There was a hour long show about Bjork on A&E a few weeks ago. In part of it
>> > she was walking on the beach with a little box about the size of a cigar box
>> > in her hand. It was black, boxy, and had lots of little knobs and buttons on
>> > it. She said it was a portable sampler/sequencer/digital effects machine,
>> > and implied that it also was a drum machine. She said the composes her
>> > tracks on this as a kind of musical sketch pad. Does anyone have any idea
>> > what this nifty little device is?
>
>Else, it could be the SU10, QY-10(not a sampler), or newer QY/SU
>sequencer.  I can't think of any battery-powered black boxes with knobs
>not made by yamaha...

it was kinda hard to tell at first glance, but i'm pretty sure it was a
QY70, which is the only one of those that can be manipulated by both hands
a la "sega game gear." no sampling on that one though, so hmmm..

>
>BTW, You are really geeky if you walk down the beach with one of those,
>and I just can't believe she is that geeky.  Like when you are that geeky,

i wouldn't have believed it either, if the clip in question wasn't of her
doing just that.

eric

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