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I do think there is a BIG difference between the sort of "classical" music background and the "rock" "folk" thing. A classically trained musician, to me, "use" a composed piece a a starting point of interpretation (improvisation) it is the small variations that the musician "adds" to the composition that makes it interesting. That might be the reason that classically trained musicians *tend* to do composed looping more interesting than folk/rock musicians (like me). Many musicians with rock background really CANT compose intresting instrumental music, i can't, not yet at least!! We can write song, instrumntal sometimes, nut not usally with couter themes, development etc... BUT some rockers/jazzers can imprivise and some times there as nuggets in those improvisation. And over time. like Andre LaFosse, you keep those nuggets and turn them into songs... Still I do NOT usually like the approach that is like - first I do a fun beat, then add bass, some backing vocals, more rhytms, a guitar, sing verse...... > From: sbingham@con-brio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: PrePrepared vs. Improvisational Live Looping Performances > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:15:47 +0100 > > Rather like Zoe, I come at this from a classically trained background > where I played everything straight from the composers music for about > 20 years! When I started some tentative improvisation it was in a > group and not solo, which somehow felt easier. In that group I got the > looping bug from Steve Lawson, but ..................... |