Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?

[nitesh patel <tesh@gte.net>]

if you wanna be in 1975 you don't loop but with technology today there's
absolutely no reason not to loop and use patterns created by your self 
through
your sequencer wether it's souned forge4.5 or cakewalk diffrent versions 
hgave
the number of patterns you =can sequence or loop with your  better of using
l;oops asv your loop will always be on time will your guatrist?

Julio Moreno wrote:

> Matthias:  Toumane Diabate from Mali...they don't need loop machines
> and play the best ''loop mantras'' in the world. The band usually plays 
>as
> trio with guitar,kora, ngoni, nguini and marimba. AMAZING MUSIC!!!
> Julio
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?
>
> >
> > >"When do you make a choice NOT to loop?"
> >
> > Oh, nice question ;-)
> >
> > I guess, most of us have parts without loop in their loop pieces, but 
>they
> > rather feel like bridges mostly, so thats probably not what we talk 
>about
> > here...
> >
> > I allways had problems with rythms. My music speaks in sound and 
>melody.
> > I somehow need the loop to keep me steady and leared a lot from it. 
>Brasil
> > tought me another big lesson. But still, without loop, I tend to
> > constantely change themes and travel in variations, hardly repeating
> myself.
> > For a long time, I thought this was not "serious" music, but more and 
>more
> > I find it about as interesting as mantric loops.
> > Where is that need for repeated parts coming from? Isnt it mostly a 
>help
> to
> > remember and teach the song? So in an improvisation, you dont need it?
> > If you want a mantric effect, use a loop to get the strongest effect, 
>if
> > not, just keep going, tell the story! To do it well is not so easy, 
>but I
> > am getting better at it, in my candleaccousiticroom.
> >
> > Could anyone indicate recorded music of this notreapeatatall kind?
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> >
> >
> >          ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org
> >
> >