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Congratulations everyone! Sounds wonderful! Did you all attempt to sync the looping devices together? If so, did you use MIDI beat clock, or perhaps Brother-Sync for all the EDP users? - Chris >> i want the real scoop.......what happened?........who was the first to >>put a lampshade on their head?.........:)...........give me the >>gossip!................michael > >Well... You asked Michael so here's the deal... > >A Santa Cruz looper jam / get together happened Sunday the 25th, 2pm - >8pm... > >Matt Davignon - Turntable, cassettes, 2 DOD DFX94's >Chris Cory - Sax and toy instruments, Line 6 DL4 >Larry Peterson - Custom (Warr style) tap instrument, treated vox, synth? >EDP? >Jonathan El-Bizri - Stick, SP808, JamMan, EDP? >Kamlapati Khalsa - Guitar, SP808, 2 EDP's >Dana Scruggs - Korg Triton keyboard >Laurie Hatch - Bass, percussion, vox, EDP >Scott Kungha Drengshen - 12 string bass, EDP? >Tim Sanz - Guitar, DL4 >Miko Biffle - Guitar, EDP > >I'm counting 10... I hope I'm not forgetting anyone here! There were a few >no shows due to conflicting work schedules as well... There WERE 16 >confirmed players. > >Anyway... as we all set up there was an additive sort of wall of sound >being generated, some of which was taped. I was very leery of trying to >loop with 10 people... so I prepared a simplified version of John Zorn's >Cobra game piece, which we played a couple times. This helps move the >music along in various sub-groups using a visually oriented cueing system. >We all felt that for a first time, this was a big success, and are now >babbling on about doing a second jam and using more detailed signalling >methods. > >As a group, we seemed very intent on PLAYING rather than socializing. It >was a 6 hour duration and we used a solid 4 of it for playing. One hour >for setup, loose jamming and one hour of break down. There was NO >lampshade wearing unfortunately Michael... Oh yeah... This all happened at >a rehearsal studio I rented for the event... we set up in the round and >might have been able to fit more people... but it was packed. I'm thinking >that we may rent a more "recital" oriented hall for the next one. (this >space was a concrete, echoey, industrial building.) > >We DID record... are getting ready to do some edits and mastering... and >will at LEAST post this stuff to a web site. Hopefully there will be a cd >of the highlights as well. Anyway... we all had a great time and now we >have some faces to go along with the various names we constantly see on >this great list! In many ways, I felt like I already knew everyone there >to some degree... confirming my feelings of community and common purpose >I've found here at Loopers Delight. > >Thanks Kim for this place to meet and build relationships here! I can >pretty confidently say I would never have made these contacts and had this >event without this list... > >I'll post any contact info for this stuff as it develops... > >Best to all, >-Miko