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

At 12.12 03/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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?
>


???? 

leo



>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
>> >
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