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>There are some definite connections between that sort of music and >looping, I'd say, particularly since most of the Javanese music I played >consisted of what could be described in Western terms as one or two >(occasionally more) eight or sixteen-bar cycles repeated for a looooong >time. Fifteen to twenty minutes was the average length of time for a lot >of the pieces we played. It's one thing to hear an electronic loop >spinning that long, but it's another thing to actually have to manually >play it over and over while sitting cross-legged on the floor. (Ouch). > Gamelan was always a big inspiration to me too. In a similar vein, I spent 3 years playing traditional Zimbabwean marimba music in a band called Balafon, with 6-8 people playing interlocking marimba parts and usually 3-4 percussionists. When you get those long 3 against 4 or 2 against 3 parts really locked up, it can send you to heaven. Even though the stuff I do now is sonically a million miles away from that stuff, it has influenced the how I play in a very deep way, especially when locking up with a drummer. ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel, NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: improv@peak.org self promotional web-site: http://www.peak.org/~improv/ "A squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?" -Captain Beefheart ________________________________________________________