Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

To reiterate what Les pointed out:

The MOTM is used as the "rhythm section". Robert plays 3 other keyboards, the flutes and the
pedal steel all in real time. Without redoing "The First Moog Quartet" thing, how to you 'play' a
multitimbral, polyphonic modular in real-time?

And I'm sorry if Elhardt got the impression Robert was just mimicing the CD note for note. What
he does in concert is play really a montage of sorts spanning 15 years of work. If you are a big
fan and have many of his CDs, what you realize is that every one is ∗different∗. They still sound
"like Robert Rich" but some are tuned in JI ('Numena'), some are abstact ('Bestiary' and 'Below
Zero') and some are 80's New Age ('Humidity'). In order to "pull it off", it IS a very rehearsed
show. But so was watching Virgil Fox pound the hell out of his Allen organ in 1978. Doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it.

Beside....how many OTHER people can you go see this year with a modular on stage?

Paul S.