Episode 14 is up! We get Glenn Poorman on the line for this one, and have a great chat about a range of topics. The “Interlochen Origin Story” is particularly interesting and fun, plus some great looping and notation conversation.

Enjoy!

https://tapintime.podbean.com/e/looping ... terlochen/

4:40 - $600? Never! Mid-80's $1200 SamAsh NYC. That's a lotta tacos (was working in a Mexican Restaurant@ the time)
OK...finished listening. Once again, fun and interesting and fun. Great to hear Glenn & the rest of youse!

Another great episode. I loved going to Interlochen and really hope I can get there this year. If I can cross the boarder with out doing a two week quarantine I’ll be there. Great job guys and great to hear Glenn chatting about stock stuff

Crook as a dog, really happy to be able to listen to this while I recoup.

Great stuff. Excellent shop/work soundtrack...listening to Glen and Claire, who I finally met at Interlochen in 2019, and the rest!

Funny...I'm usually late to the game on things. I finally got into looping about 2-3 years ago. I've been using what I'd consider an entry-level looper - Ditto Looper (TC Electronics). Very simple, one button and one volume knob, period. Now, I've never wanted to be a "looping musician". But I've definitely wanted to incorporate loops into my compositions & performances. I love creating soundscapes to improvise over. There's a minor amount of looping in my upcoming "Stick Graft (duo)" with Flautist Marie-Veronique Bourque. But I'm ready for an advanced looper of some sort.

Any suggestions on a multi-type looper appreciated.

And thanks for the excellent podcast. Keep it up!

Really nice program. Kudos to all involved. Glenn is one of those truly multi-demensional people. Great compositions, and a really nice way of putting things together, whether is be music or community, or whatever.

And thanks for all the love, y'all...

Great episode! Enjoyed hearing about Glenn's background, looping, and Interlochen.

I love this people!!!


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Enjoyed that. Especially the parts about Steve Osburn. Just spoke with him about a week ago. Made another attempt to get him to sign up for Stickist.com. Need to ask him again about how he discovered the Stick. He might have forgotten a bit. The story he told me was him and the founder of Milford Music Store worked either at Al Nally or Herb David’s back in the 1970’s before they ventured off with their own Music Stores. Tim Twiss is the other guy and Oz told me that bought a Stick before him and still has it. However, what he told Glenn I have physical evidence of. I tried getting into the Stick about ten years or so earlier than I did, discovered Oz through Herb David who told me Oz was the local guru of the Stick. When going to his store, Mickey told me Oz was on his honeymoon and he gave me a copy of the magazine ad that Glenn mentioned in his podcast. I still have those copies. He didn’t have any Sticks in the store at that time.

Unfortunately I never got a Stick until 2004 when a coworker was looking for one and went to Oz’s. He told me about the NS there and I ended up going back and bought that, finally meeting Oz.

I do have a copy of the Michigan Stick trio CD. Both Wes Terregan and Pete were gear freaks, so there’s a lot of electronic effects going on and you can tell which parts are Oz’s

I came to this episode from a different place than most of you. It made me very nostalgic. So here comes a history lesson.

My father was a composer and classical pianist. He also worked with electronic music back in the day when you used a razor blade to cut of reel to reel tapes and was an early adopter of synthesizers. (I remember helping my father clean circuit boards after etching them.)

At any rate, as a child his family moved from Crawfordsville, Indiana, to Beulah, Michigan. (Beulah is about 20 miles straight west of Interlochen. For a while my father's family owned the Pine Knott Inn.) My father went to National Music Camp (NMC) for many summers while growing up and ended up a camp counselor while a student at the University of Michigan.

Fast forward until my third grade in the late 1960s. Previously I had spent my summers with my grandparents in Beulah, but that summer they sent me to NMC in the Junior camp. (I might be wrong about what the youngest group of campers was called; it's been a while.) It was eight weeks long. Juniors were not as focused as the older campers were, but we did spend a lot of time doing music. This is where I first learned to play trumpet, which was my instrument in years two and three. But I also swam across the lake, went on canoe trips, did this strange Indian thing in the woods, climbed Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, etc. I also went to many concerts at the Kresge Auditorium. (The concerts were mandatory.) I think Van Cliburn played there every year. The boys wore blue corduroy pants while the girls (in a different camp on the other side of the facility) wore corduroy knickers.

I ended going back for a total of three summers. (It probably helped that my grandmother had money. My father was artist in residence at Kent State University and then at the University of West Florida, so we did not have money.)

I have very fond memories of NMC even though I never focused enough on music to make a career of it. (I might have been scared by my father's experience which involved living on credit cards for two years in between gigs.)

Later I brought my daughters to NMC to look around when visiting my grandparents. Luckily for my bank account, neither really pressured us to go there when they were kids. However, both ended up starting as music majors when they went to school, and my youngest graduated with a double degree in musical theater and vocal performance. She's been working professionally since then. So maybe visiting Interlochen might have affected her.

Hopefully one year I'll be able to go back for one of the Stick Seminars. Let's see what retirement brings.