On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:12:58 +0900, Taylor McLaren <morakanabad@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Yesterday was also the first time that I had seen or heard anything about this Alfred Harth guy. He lightened the mood considerably, clowning around with rubber tubes and mouthpiece birdcall noises, and hopping up and down while he played; I can imagine some of the too-serious fans in the audience being a bit put off by his antics. As a replacement for the perpetually schmaltzy Kikuchi, though, I was more than happy to see him bring a tenor sax and a bass clarinet into the fray:
Thanks for the report Taylor. I've passed on your report to Alfred, who will be delighted to see it. He's had a long career in improvisational music in Germany. Spent a long time as collaborator with Heiner Goebbels and played with Zorn, Frith and many other players. You may also know him as co-creator of the Revolutionary Pekinese Opera sample that was later sampled by Otomo on the Ground Zero project of the same name.