Re: the death of the loop

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Nadia Salom <nadia.salom@gmx.de> wrote:
> How does one go about killing a loop?

Fora a change, try changing the loop's audio content while it is
playing. Use a continuous pedal assigned to feedback for soft changes
and slicing to violently replace chunks of audio in the loop.

If you want to write songs, learn to write songs. Looping is
different. But in a quite beautiful way; looping doesn't demand *a
start* and *an ending*. It's more like the original idea of ambient
music; it is going on forever and you simply tune in or tune out of
the flow.

I agree with you that when picking up an ambition to "write songs" out
of true live looping sessions a lot of the magic is lost. But thinking
closer about "composing", isn't it in fact a lame-ish workaround to
synthesize the true inspiration of a good improvisation? A way to
experience an adventure without exposing yourself to the risks. A
trick to repeat a blissful moment many times.

But some folks are good at composing. How do they manage? I'd say they
are very good at simulating the inspired "first encounter experience"
in music. In order to succeed with that you will have to distance
yourself from the nice feeling of being part of the music as "music
happens to you" in order to analyse and take notes of exactly what
happens so you can repeat it and bring over a fragment of that emotion
to listeners.

Oops... this turned out a bit theoretical - I fully support the
hands-on hints Kevin just posted as well.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com