francko.lamerikx@philips.com wrote:
it's a small square pad with an orange-colored touchscreen and some knobs), then another artist who I've seen using it is KK Null during his solo performances. It took ten minutes of a Haco concert to sell me on one: I was amazed by what she was able to accomplish with a Kaoss Pad, a headset mic, and a three-input mixer a couple of months back. You can't expect it to do much in the way of studio-perfect effects work, but for the cost (mine was about $350 Canadian), it's an amazingly versatile bit of live-performance gear. It's also a lot of fun for day-to-day audio mischief... hooking it up to a VCR or laserdisc player and using it to vandalize stupid movies or TV programs is tremendously satisfying.
Meanwhile, TagYrIt@aol.com wrote (on the subject of "Smile"):
While I was reading this, all I could think of was substituting in "Pete Townsend" and "Lifehouse." I read the playscript over the weekend, and can't really figure out why it took so long to finally spit it out. I mean, the ending is a bit bleaker than the transcendent-hippie thing from the original outline, but otherwise, what was the hold-up? (At least with his nutbar plans for the "Lifehouse Method" thing, software development time will make it understandable if we don't hear a peep out of him for the next couple of years.)
-me