It's 'Bring Your Dad to School Day' at the youngest Mini-Mondo's Junior School today. An annual event where the dad's in attendance typically demonstrate a hobby, hands on activity or an area of personal interest for the kiddies to tuck in and try.
For some it's football, others guitar lessons and occasionally even fruit smoothie making. I've had my orders for this year - "bring superhero comics". We've got an over-populated loft bulging (to the point of ceiling cracks) from my collection of comics, annuals and graphic novels.
But, on previous years I've taken along a mic, a pair of headphones and my Kaoss Pad for some junior funtime. The Kaoss Pad is a highly tactile TARDIS of electrickery - buzzing with sampling software, synthetic sounds, drum patterns, vocoder variations and endless FX to be looped, layered and replayed in limitless combinations. Or with the simple swish of a finger any voice can be morphed from the rich rumble of Barry White to the helium squeak of Mickey Mouse or the manic quack of a Dalek.
It's just as easy to build a bed of backbeats and bleeps using a few clicks or tricks, and who knows - perhaps with some extra study and application create an electric confection like...
Jean-Jacques Perrey - Soul City
Peppers - Pepper Box
Gershon Kingsley - Paperback Writer
Kaoss Theory applied live - (not me BTW)
PS there's a couple tasty Billy Preston space race nugg's right here
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Now Matt Bellamy of Muse actually has a Kaos Pad fitted in one of his Manson custom guitars.
Here's a pic of it...
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/1/9/1/2/5/2/6/MTS2_MrDeftino_764151_Matt_Bellamy.jpg
'mazing - F-ron. I read an Eno interview and he piggy backs them together..
Bring Your Dad To School Day huh? Not sure what my party piece'd be, I'm not up with all this Stylophone technology like you; I cook a mean prawn gumbo but I don't imagine there's not much call for that in the Primary school sector. Hope the comix were well received - POW! ZAP! etc.
Oh god I have this to come.
"Daddy please bring your collection of vintage German porn from the 70s"
That's what will be happening to the bloke next door.
Davy I've never had any type of gumbo sounds delish..these were A few from the menu today sons of Superman and Batman
Marvel/DC crossovers
Batman in the sixties
Hmmm does your neighbour do loaners Simon - something for the weekend perhaps?
Mondo - you blew it!!!
you KNOW comics have such as bad rep mate... now all those other kids have you down as a geek! You shoulda taken in porn or something else less embarasing.
Why only today I was telling a girl in the office about this comic expo i'm going to at the weekend. It's a really cool deal, for indi comic makers only, so lots of low print run, hand stapled, often hand coloured comics, often bought from the artis themselves. No superheroes stuff, just autobiographical kinda deal.... by the time i'd finished explaining it to her I was looking for the rope!!!
Have a good weekend mate.
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Not at all P - he and his classmates are only eight so don't need anything to progressive - it was his request and they all loved it - right up their crime alleys
I'm glad you had a good time. That sounds cool. I hope you're doing well and enjoying your weekend. Cheers!
Thanks Keith had a top weekend - sauna, steam rooms, swimming and Jacuzzis so all good
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