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>I certainly don't intend to cast aspersions on anyone >here, guitarist or >otherwise. My main purpose in posting this is to see >if people think >that "looping" as a technique/practiced art form/what->have-you has >actually changed significantly within the last four >years, particularly >in terms of the whole "guitar loop" thing. What do >you think? Andre, It's interesting to hear this from my perspective, 'cause I didn't get into loop music myself until about four years ago, and it WASN'T the ambient-ebow-rubato thing. I picked up a David Torn album after reading his article and lesson in Guitar Player, and so immediately started associating loop music with these funky rhythms and cool riffs. In fact, the only albums by Loop Professors that I own even now are a buncha DT's discs and Robby Aceto's solo album. Not an ambient one in the bunch - not even a Fripp CD! (Will the rioting villagers please extinguish their torches....) As far as whether the "genre" as such has changed in the last four years, I'm finding it difficult to think of it as a genre at all, in the way that you could point to the evolution of metal from Black Sabbath to Metallica to Korn or something like that. Loop music, to me, has always been defined in terms of equipment/technique rather than sonic results - these are the people who use loopers. They sound like, well, themselves: an amalgamation of influences and original ideas in varying proportions. Before the advent of the Internet, when the most visible guitar looping music was Fripp's soundscaping, it might have been possible to say that Guitar Looping was an Ambient Thing, as most of the folks doing it had heard and been heavily influenced by Senor Fripp, and, well, gee, who else was doing it? Over the last four years, we've had a lot of new exponents coming forth with their music (in this forum particularly), and this has cross-fertilized the loop community to produce Neat New Ideas and, perhaps as a side product, taken us further away from the Ambient Thing. So the sound of the individual Loop Professors has changed (the distance between Torn's _WMS,T?_ and the Splattercell disc, for example), but I'm not certain that we can equate that with a shift in the Guitar-Loop Paradigm, if there is one. (This sentence is a relation which relates itself to itself...ack! too much philosophizing during vacation!) Cool interview, BTW! Scott Martin coirbidh_99@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/