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Thing. There have been some significant changes to the front page of Yab Yum Music and Arts, but do not let that scare you. The new February issue is out and Yab Yum is better than ever! This year we at Yab Yum are going to be taking the local arts by the horns, wrestling them down, and beating them into submission…well, not really. Either way, it is 2012 and after a month long break in January Yab Yum is back! Be sure to check out the new Yab Yum!
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Yab Yum Music and Arts Vol. IV Isssue 1
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Re: review of RPM Orchestra’s “livewire acts”
Dear yabyum, on behalf of myself and the other eight orchestra members, thank you for the review of ‘livewire acts’.
It’s oddly validating when a reviewer buys into the illusion so completely that he mistakes old-timey sounding music (originals + 2 covers), played live by actual living people, for “a mash-up of 1920s recordings and… items from the public domain”, despite what the liner notes say.
That said, we’re a might confused by his closing “intellectual capacity” screed, but figure we’ll get somebody with far more smarts than us to explain that privately at a later date.
We’re just happy to be included in your latest @
http://www.yabyummusic.com/2012/bands/RPMOrchestra-livewireacts.html
Hey!
Thank you for your comments! I can’t wait to see you guys live someday.
Jofrin,
In regard to your blog about RPM Orchestra ~ livewire acts
“They take an almost-as-cynical-as-I-am-about-their-recordings approach to barely altering already written music and adding noises to them”.
It’s a huge compliment that you didn’t recognize that the old-timey’ness of the RPM Orchestra piece you listened to (or were commenting on) was actually Jocelyn and Jim Dustan playing live.. not some old random recording being used, which tells me that the recreating and the compilation itself was a great success!
“There is something mildly insulting about livewire acts. It takes on a tone that says, “If you don’t like it you must not have the intellectual capacity to understand.” Understanding is not the problem here” .
well??? You obviously didn’t know what you were talking about…. LMAO …so basically you called yourself out without even realizing it.. *hehehe
Just a suggestion… It’s probably a good idea to contact the artists you are planning to critique before just spouting off about what you think you are hearing, but obviously don’t actually understand.. .. had you made the effort to ask you would have learned that the “mash-up of 1920s recordings and ticking clocks” were not recordings” for example.
In fact, if I am not mistaken, the specific piece of music you are talking about (although your review is written in general terms in a sort of catch-all approach) was far more in-depth than you realized..
Here’s a little background on the piece. I’m more than sure you didn’t consider.. It was created in honor of the death of the last surviving soldier of WWI (that we know of) and many of the sounds you were hearing were recreations of sounds of the battlefield as if seen in modern times of a time past and hence the scratchy old record effects were meant to set the right mood for the whole thing as if looking back at a time long ago.. (an old record sound). some of the pop sounds were bits of wrapped gun power blown up on stage to create the effect.. and so on ..oh yes.. and there was smoke and the smell..
It was an outstanding performance.. recorded live.. as a pop-up soup kitchen was literally set up as part of the performance and was serving food like so many of that era remember experiencing just after the war…. that eventually resulted in WWII and the great depression… So all I can say is .. you really ‘missed it’.. by a long shot..
Kathy