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wonderful mails brother happy new year to you and all as well! But you didnt tell me you play the armenian Duduk i love that instrument! where did u get it?? Cheers Luis --- RICK WALKER <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > Happy New Years to Everybody! > > I think 2007 may be the cultural watershed year of > this first decade of the > new Millennium > in much the way the 1967 and 1968 were defining > years, culturally in the > 1960s. > > We've been in a really flat place for a long time > here in the United States > (waiting out the Bush > regime's end) but I think the tide has turned, > culturally and artistically. > > The older paradigms of the music industry are dying > rapidly (Tower Records > completely out of business?). > We are in a new phase where people don't listen to > whole albums much > anymore..................they are able > to get the lion share of their music for free on the > web and listen to it on > I pods. > > A lot of things are changing which means that a lot > of new ways of > communicating are on their ways. > > The musical and artistic communities of the future > are starting to be built > now through places > like this website, tribe.net, myspace, > youtube.com, etc. > > The amount of information on many, many things > musically is available almost > instantaneously, now on the web. > I spent the evening watching looping French pop > vocalists, Russian world > fusion multi-instrumentalists, 12 years > old South Indian girls who are going to be the next > generations' master > drummers, online tutorials for > Max/MSP and Jitter, directions for reinstalling my > MAudio Firewire audio > computer interface, all > just sitting in front of my computer. I worked > on Arabic maqams on my > Armenian Duduk, my purple anodized > pocket trumpet, my Rick Turner purple fretless > acoustic/electric bass and > my voice out of a book that I found > online and ordered through the independent bookstore > where my wife works. > > Ten years ago, ney five years ago, I couldn't > have possibly had as > productive and knowledge increasing a day as I did > today. > > *********************************** > Someone once said that artists are the Antennae of a > Culture. Because they > are so sensitive, they can frequently see changes > coming in the culture long before they occur. > > It's an exciting time to be alive............... a > challenging time to be > alive, ecologically and economically. > A lot of things are going to change and very, very > rapidly. > > I think we are on the cutting edge in this musical > movement of Live Looping > of a lot of what's going to change and define > the paradigms of live playing in the next decades to > come. > > In the past years, a very large number of very > famous and prominent artists > had musicians in their bands who are using live > looping tools. I saw a > show with Thomas Dolby, Loop Station and Genie > where EVERYONE was looping > live on stage > and there wasn't a single word about Live Looping > anywhere. That made me > really happy. > > We are finally starting to arrive in the musical > landscape. I could not > have written that paragraph 5 years ago. > > Things are changing. > > I feel happy and blessed to be part of this > community that is so innovative > and also so supportive of each other's artistry. > > Happy New Years everyone. May you all have a > fantastic year, creatively. > > Throw caution to the > wind....................................Put out a > CD! > Throw a festival! Buy recordings from your > fellow artists. > Let's do it!!!!!! > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com