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Matt wrote: > Well Laurie, after writing the above I've scraped the piece I was working > on. I felt I was trying too hard...the music wasn't happening. The >problem > seems to be trying to force some sort of form over something that is >totally > improvished. It just wasn't working for me. > > I'm beginning to feel like a looping poser. > > >>Honestly, I don't know what I'm looking > >>for...but I'm fairly certain that I will know when I find it. >Hopefully. > > > >You know, I feel like I just spent the last four years feeling that way. > So it > >really struck me when you said this. The fact that you're *looking* is > what > >really counts. > > I hope you are right! I just want to jump in with a word of encouragement. Keep at it and something good will happen. I've done a lot of composing based on improvs and it's an elusive thing. Sometimes the original improv has to be used verbatim, or not used at all -- it's just that quirky. At times I have spent days transcribing and learning to play something I improvised, in order to try to record a better performance of the idea -- not always successfully. Sometimes I get something finished and decide that I've created a fine realization of a mediocre idea. That's okay; I spent the time playing music instead of watching TV at least. Some improvised loops are cool, but I have no idea of what I'd do with them. I might fly one into the sampler, to play with it at other speeds/pitches, and to file it away in my own mind and on disk. Sometimes later I'll be composing/arranging, wanting the inspiration of a new sound, go browsing through the sampled loop library, and find something that works. But more than all that, I think Laurie is right ... the most important thing is to keep trying. Please let us know how it goes! Doug --- Doug Wyatt doug@sonosphere.com Sonosphere (music and music software) http://www.sonosphere.com/ my new CD, "Accidental Beauties": http://www.sonosphere.com/wyatt/