Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007 9:26AM /
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So here I am in Guangzhou, just waking up in my digs at "Chez Funkenstein" aka the Peng An Hotel. It's not a bad place, actually. Refreshingly free of late night phone calls etc. Yesterday we played at Xinghai Conservatory. We played in a lovely little hall that they call the "Saloon"... Seriously. I was expecting Dutch doors and sawdust on the floor and dusty men with six shooters doing shots of rotgut. But instead, a nice little concert hall and hundreds of eager students... The group, Escalator is shaping up nicely. We started with a burst of noise, and worked our way through various grooving sections, with Phil Slater adding some great electronic parts, and slabs of trumpet melody. Carl Dewhurst doing interlocking noisy guitar parts, and Nick McBride working out on the drums. I was pretty happy with the sound. We had a young FOH engineer. A delicate little hippie with a very light touch. Used no eq on the board (yay!) and ran things at very cool signal levels. Did not ride the board during the show. Worth his weight in gold. I need to be able to find this guy again. Mastamic joined us halfway through the set with some blistering Cantonese freestyle, and the audience really dug him and us. Sure, why not. I nearly got electrocuted when my lips touched the mic doing announcements... We ended with another slab of noise, and many many kids came up after the show to wish us well and hang out with us while we packed up. I love playing for students. And music students even better. Tonight it is club 191, and tomorrow we are off to Beijing to play Yu Gong Yi Shan. Happy Days.
那么这里我在广州，叫醒在我的开掘在“Chez Funkenstein” aka彭旅馆。 它不是一个坏地方，实际上。 清爽地免于夜间电话等。 昨天我们使用了在Xinghai音乐学院。 我们充当一个可爱的小的大厅他们叫“交谊厅”… 严重。 我在地板上等荷兰门和锯木屑和多灰尘的人用做rotgut的射击六发式左轮手枪。 反而，一个好的小的音乐厅和数百热切的学生… 小组，自动扶梯恰好塑造。 我们开始了以噪声爆炸，并且通过各种各样的挖沟的部分工作我们的喇叭曲调方式，当菲尔铺瓦工增加一些巨大电子零件和平板。 卡尔做连结的喧闹的吉他零件的Dewhurst和尼克解决在鼓的McBride。 我是相当愉快的与声音。 我们有一位年轻FOH工程师。 一名精美矮小的嬉皮以非常轻触。 在委员会没有使用eq (yay!) 并且跑了事在非常凉快的信号电平。 在展示期间，没有乘坐委员会。 相当他的重量价值在金子。 我需要能再找到这个人。 Mastamic通过集合半路加入了我们与某一恶意的广东自由式，并且观众真正地开掘了他和我们。 肯定，为什么没有。 我几乎得到了触电致死当我的嘴唇接触了mic做的公告…时 我们以噪声另一块平板结束了，并且许多许多孩子过来，在展示祝愿我们好和消磨时间和我们一起之后，当我们包装了时。 我喜爱演奏为学生。 并且音乐学生更好。 今晚它是俱乐部191，并且明天我们是到演奏Yu锣伊掸人的北京。 愉快的天。
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Sunday, Oct 7, 2007 5:33PM /
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... many moons since my last writing... it's been a long, sometimes productive, sometimes lazy, sometimes infuriating summer... growing pains of Creative Music in China occupying most of my time. Looking forward to many exciting projects...
...just helped Sydney master musician Carl Dewhurst settle into his hotel. Seems like a very sweet cat. Reminds me a little of Briggan Krauss, gentle NY radical musician/artist.
...this week I'm getting into my Escalator project. Live electronic Improvisation. For those of you who are interested, you can catch our Hong Kong shows at Le Rideau on Thurs 11 and Fri 12. Pls see www.peterscherr.com for details. These are very interesting musicians. Carl Dewhurst on guitar and plundered electronix, Phil Slater on electrified trumpet and acoustified laptop, Nick McBride on drums, and myself on bass guitar through shard-inducing electronic devices.
...we also have a dancer for the Hong Kong shows, and a special guest doing Cantonese spoken word art. ...two days to workshop this band, and I really can't wait to hear what we sound like playing together....
...for weeks I've been grinding away at my ears with various electronic sounds such as Mouse on Mars, Oval, Fenesz, Squarepusher, Nobukazu Takemura, also huge portions of the fabulous Australian band The Necks, whom I recommend to anyone who is willing to give them a listen. Worked out on my credit card buying boatloads of the music, including the few Necks albums I don't already have...
...it will be interesting to see how this listening affects the next project, if at all. I'd love to get into those glitchy soundscapes, but I don't want to force this music to be anything. I just want to see what we get, and maybe, just maybe guide it a very little.
After Escalator, I am chock full until Nov. 1, when I finally have to get down to all those music papers underneath all the other paper on my desk and piano. Finish tunes that I started in April for both Jenny Scheinman's Willing (November) and Headache (December)
...above all I must stay loose so that I can do all this.
All for now. I'll write again soon.
... 自从我的最后著作的很多卫星 ... 它是长，有时生产，有时令人懒散，有时激怒夏天 ... 在中国的有创造性的音乐的发展时期的困难占领大部分我的时间。盼望很多令人激动的项目 ...
... 刚刚帮助卡尔 Dewhurst 到他的旅馆中安顿的悉尼主人音乐家。似乎是一只很甜的猫。提醒我一点点 Briggan Krauss 中，好心的 NY 激进分子音乐家/艺术家。
... 这个星期我在进入我的电动扶梯项目。活电子 Improvization。对被其感兴趣的你的那些，你能够吸引我们的香港显示以 Le Rideau 在星期四 11 和星期五 12。地方详情请参看 www.peterscherr.com。这些是很有趣的音乐家。在六弦琴上的卡尔 Dewhurst 和抢夺电不行，在电气化的小号上的菲尔 Slater 和 acoustified 便携式计算机，在至引诱碎片电子设备的低音的六弦琴上在鼓，和我自己上的尼克 McBride。
... 我们也为香港展览会，和一个特别的客人行为广东人有一个舞蹈演员被说的词艺术。... 两日到讨论会这支乐队，我真正等不及要听到我们听起来象是一起玩的 ....
... 数周我之外以不同电子意味以我的耳朵一直在折磨例如在火星上的鼠，椭圆形， Fenesz， Squarepusher， Nobukazu Takemura，也神话般澳大利亚乐队的巨大的部分脖子，我推荐跟愿意给他们的任何人倾听。在买音乐的船的装载量，包括少数脖子的我的信用卡上算得出我没已经有的专辑 ...
... 会对感兴趣明白怎样这倾听影响下一个项目，如果完全。我会喜欢进入那些 glitchy soundscapes，但是我不想迫使这篇乐谱是任何东西。我刚刚想看我们得到的，或许，的确或许带领它很很少。
在电动扶梯以后，我是满满地充足的直到我最终必须认真进行全部的 11 月 1 日在我的桌子和钢琴上的所有其他纸下面的那些音乐文章。结束调那我在 4 月开始杰妮 Scheinman 是是积极肯干的（11 月）和头疼 (12 月 )
... 最重要我必须保持松的以便我能够做全部这。
全部暂且。我将很快再度写。
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Friday, Jul 27, 2007 8:49AM /
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/ Crazy musician outside the mainstream
Hello folks, I am happy to be a member of this space, this area, this community. Actually I'm not much of a joiner, but my friend Roland told me about this site a few weeks ago. I tried to join then, but there was a little glitch with the registration process. Up early this morning to check on an overseas communication gone horribly wrong, I figured, bored, having reached an impasse, that I would try again. And it worked this time A little about me. I am 44 yrs old, lived in Hong Kong since 1989. I am a musician. My main focus these days is what I call Creative Music. This is a term that is in common use in the USA, Europe, Australia etc. Music that is often improvisational and follows the musician;s current interests. Is often an outgrowth of Jazz, New Music etc. I once read that it is Jazz Beyond Jazz. This is apt. What I am doing is bringing emerging artists together from the states, (especially the NY "Downtown Scene) australia and europe, creating unique programs of creative music and touring cities in China with them. The work continues in each project with recordings in my studio and extensive video documentation. My music is meant to upset, disturb, inspire, etc. To challenge the listener's sense of beauty. To open minds about what might be considered music in the first place. Every year I try to raise the bar in terms of the outrageousness of the music, and also the quality level, the number of adventurous projects etc. And soon, my concerts may also feature gogo dancers! Though this past year, I did rather less performing and spent a lot of time working on learning Putonghua, and also doing a lot of administrative groundwork for the Creative Music in China project. So my music was on skeleton crew mode. But I did keep practicing my beloved bass, and I was in NY for 6 weeks this winter, playing music with my brother and also gathering (along with moss) new ideas, new contacts that will come to fruition, let's say, rather soon. I'll be in touch. Pete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotE2MQy0-s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfT0FIj5Q_g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgX7eIBKPM 喂人們，我樂於是這個空間的一名成員，這個地區，這個社群。哈。其實我是不太好的一名工匠，但是羅蘭關於本網站幾星期前告訴其我的我的朋友。我嘗試然後加入，但是以註冊過程有一些的小故障。在察看可怕地不在的一次海外的交流的本上午初上錯誤，我出現，使厭煩，達到了僵局，我會再嘗試。以及管理這次 一點關於我。我是 44 你老，自從 1989 年住在香港。我是一個音樂家。我的著重點當今是我稱為有創意的音樂的。這是一個條款那是相同在美國的使用，歐洲，澳洲等等是通常 improvizational 的，跟著音樂家的音樂；s 電流興趣。是經常喧鬧，新音樂的長出等等我曾經讀那在喧鬧之外是豔麗的。這是恰當的。 我做的在將來自州的新興的藝術家聯繫在一起，（尤其是現在散去 NY「商業區現場）澳洲和良好繩子，建立有創意的音樂的獨特的計畫，跟他們一起在中國遊覽城市。工作在我的工作室和廣大視訊的文檔以記錄在每個專案中繼續。 我的音樂被打算弄翻，打擾，鼓勵，等等到挑戰收聽者的美感。到關於可能首先是經過慎重考慮的音樂的公開的頭腦。 每年我嘗試以音樂的了不起而言舉起條狀物，以及高級的水平，險象環生的專案的數目等等以及很快，我的音樂會可能也以 gogo 舞蹈演員為特色！ 可是這過去的年，我做相當較不表演和花費對學習 Putonghua 有效，以及在中國專案中為有創意的音樂做很多行政的基礎的很多時間。這樣我的音樂是關於最少量的工作人員方式。但是我保持現職的我的心愛的低音部，我今年冬天對 6 個星期在 NY 裡，跟我的兄弟一起播放音樂以及聚集（與苔蘚一起）新想法，將來到成就的新聯繫，讓我們說，相當很快。 我將是保持接觸的。 皮特
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