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looping looping looping looping looping looping looping... s so sou soun sound sounds soundsc soundsca soundscap soundscapi soundscapin soundscaping... smiles, Corynne At 12:19 PM 3/24/98, you wrote: >John and Diane asked: >>Who would care to take a shot? Compare looping with soundscaping. >>Differences & similarities. > >Looping is what we all do around here. >Soundscaping is what Robert Fripp does when he's looping. >Aside from the name change, I don't percieve any major difference. > >> What's the difference technique, gear, attitude or creativity? > >Now that, my friend, is dangerous ground around here! > >>I haven't looped yet but do play space with series of delays and analog >>effects. I'm of the mind of attitude and style. What do you think? > >If you've played with a series of delays, and had that feedback knob >turned >up long enough to play back over, you've looped. Looping, to me, means >using a delay to enable you to play more than one sound at once, live. >It's easy to get precious about things beyond that. As far as I'm >concerned Eric Johnson is looping on the first track of Tones, and he's >just using a 1/2 second delay pedal with a "hold" switch. > >The Reverend said: >>And does being an "experimental guitarist" mean >>that you also don't practice your double-stops >>and hammer-ons? :-) > >Yeah, but we do get to practice hitting the strings with hammers, fruit or >marital aids. > >Michael > > > >