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At 05:58 PM 12/3/97 -0500, David Kirkdorffer wrote: >Just a few ideas on the idea of The Loopers-Delight CD Series. > >1. Why not try to loosely follow themes for each CD? For example: > by nation or > by instrument or > by genre or > by season my only reservation with this idea has to do with the sort of problems the Looper's Delight list has run into as things have grown. Diversity does not come easily anywhere, and we are not an exception. Since LD was initially popularized in a narrow range of places, at first there were disproportionate numbers of people from very particular stylistic backgrounds. I was never very happy with this, since I was keenly aware from my own experiences developing the tools that a much wider range of people were interested and using these techniques in their music. An unfortunate group dynamic tended to happen then, whereby looping tended to be equated with those couple of styles that were heavily represented. During those times, quite a few people from different backgrounds happened upon us by chance, joined the list with excitement, did not feel very comfortable or welcome, and quickly left. I think that was very unfortunate, since some of them were quite interesting and could have shared with us much more than we had on our own. As time has passed this has gradually changed. Maybe we've matured a bit and are more accepting of the different sorts of loopers, or maybe it's just entropy. But gradually our little microcosm has become a bit more representative of the looping universe, and I for one have been enjoying that a lot. I think we gain much from those with different experiences than our own, and I hope we can continue to grow in that direction. So with the CDs, I rather hope they are not too stylistically thematic at first. I would rather not see us once again imparting the impression that Looping is one particular type of music. First impressions matter, and I'm afraid that if the first cd was all one sort of thing, we would once again be biasing the definition of Looping towards that, and once again alienating anyone else who should happen to come across our little community here. So my feeling is, let's have some great music, and let it spread wide and show some of our differences! Sure it might not be a perfectly consistent thing, but so what? I *like* albums that go different places! We might even get some of the people with more dj/remixing experience to help sequence tracks in a nice way, and get them to flow together creatively. That could be fun by itself. In the long run, themes should be pursued, because that idea has a lot of merit too. But showing off our diversity would be a great way to start, IMO. >2. If multiple CD's are created (with themes or not) - maybe a common >look/logo may be useful to tie them together?? Well, how about the Looper's Delight logo that Tom Attix brilliantly created for us? I think that would look splendid on a CD cover! This is going to be fun...I'm really looking forward to buying a stack o'cds to give out to all sorts of people I know. keep the thing moving! kim ________________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 Mpact System Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com