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[jprice@intcpi.com (John Price)]

Here goes again:

There has to be a more hands on way to build non rhythmic samples and 
static-non-pre - looped preset tones into full blown grooves that are 
triggered all live and in real time with perfect synchronization from 
scratch. 

I know Roland has a Drum set which gives you access to this type of Rhythm 
setup. Unfortunately, I'm a pathetic drummer with no patience or desire to 
learn how to be a decent real time skin banger.

I'm convinced that there's gotta be a way to make MIDI and groove based 
music through clever looping live. It would put a little more of chaos and 
real time interaction with the technology into the picture and possibly 
add more color and diversity to clubland.

Though Sequencing is cool for a lot of clever musical applications, I'm 
trying to approach this from say a traditional musicians perspective or 
better yet a jazz musicians perspective but one that shoots squarely at 
the dance floor.

I know really good hip-hop DJ's can do something similar to this sorta 
thing from turn tables. But DJ's are usually ( not always ) using 
preexisting material and just spinning another tale on a tale that has 
already been told some time earlier. 

Now its not that this format isn't exciting or incapable of inspiration - 
God knows the nights Ive left the Dance floor in NYC or Philly shaking 
>from what were DJ Earthquakes. I'm just curious as to how the reception 
of the audience as well how the experience would be from a performance 
based perspective that was kinda worked for and more tangible for an 
audience and performer - similar to what DT expressed in an earlier post.  

For instance I'm more interested in taking something that generally 
provides basic tones accessible by hand or foot with sounds like a kick, 
snare, a hi-hat or a tom and looping them layer by layer adding melody on 
top of that & then building a piece more and more as ya go along using no 
preset beats, no preset loops,... just going for it as either one person 
or even as part of an ensemble. 

This may be a stupid question which has an answer I've overlooked. Or I 
may be asking for a mix of a many different things to form a new 
instrument. 

It's a burning question. Any thoughts anyone ???

JP