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>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:13:01 -0500 >From: "Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com> >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Subject: Re: Visual interest in music >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > >Dpcoffin@aol.com wrote: >> >> In a message dated 10/20/98 2:21:50 PM, you wrote: >> >> <<Well, we all have our shortcomings. In addition to a vigorous on-stage >> display of semi-rhythmic enthusiasm, I prefer that all the musicians be >> cute, between the ages of 19 and 29, and outfitted in the latest youth >> fashions.>> >> >> Or would you perhaps prefer your audience to be blindfolded? > >Sounds intriguing! I like it! ;) > >- Dennis Leas >-- >dennis@mdbs.com > > I tend to think the visual aspect of performance is very important and can be as stimulating and as integral to a performance just as much as musical skill, gear, presentation and arrangment/placement of sound matters. I dunno, but music and especially loop based music is not what I particularly "hear" per se, rather its often the case of how i usually see it. & often music appears to me in the form of colors and relationships that are always moving, bursting, combining or fading. I think looping would be much more prevalent and utilized more frequently across the board if it were presented in more mundane, less than "so serious" and "heavy/penetrating veins" & just left to flow in a more crass & crude manners. Is it a problem if "looks" overtake the music ??? yes and no depending on what you need to get from music. You dont need much analysis, ya just either enjoy it or pass it over. Not to put down anyone, but I just dont get goose bumps when I think of "Middle Aged" folks with dulcimers, flutes and violins improvising along the lines of modern classical stuff with maybe hints of bop using either lo-fi or hi-fi digital stuff and or analog/found gear. I always feel a big yawn coming on when i see or am around that type of stuff cause it rarely departs from the weight of its own aloofness. And not to discount the folks who feel alienated or insulted by crass presentations of "ego" or "minutae" they are valid perspectives but they seem to rule the majority ( not all but most ) loop oriented artists presently puttin stuff out right now. I dunno if u guys would call an act we mentioned a few months ago (Merzbow) a looper but I see similarities in his approach to that which is "loop" and think that in the contexts he usually frames his stuff ( Bondage - Porn- Exehibitionism ) in ( tho its way too "arty" 4 most) is in a direction that is a breath of fresh air and has a hint of danger, clearly chaos and a perverse deviance while departing from the usual stuff loopers usually indulge in en masse. While Looping is truly sensual, rarely is it ever directly indulgent on levels that are direct and obvious or meant to appeal to more than just its usual crowd. Looping seems to be always coming from something thats aloof though unquestionably valid but in the end it always smells like something you really need an encylopedia on to really appreciate. (IMHO:) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com