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I personally feel that there are an AWFUL lot of preconceptions about
how real-time loop-based music is SUPPOSED to sound in the minds of the
musicians who actually use the tools. This happens both stylistically
and technically, and I think it's potentially very problematic.
In terms of style, there are still an awful lot of lingering stereotypes
about looping=avante-garde, or looping=ambient, or looping=prog-rock
Frippertronics. That doesn't have to be the case at all, and anyone
who's been to a single looping festival knows that.
** andre et al . . .
andre, as always many perceptive comments.
i'm just gonna riff on these two paragraphs.
this part of your post reminds me that this list is perhaps best thought of as a list not unlike a bass list or a guitar list . . . we all *play* loopers, but we play different genres of music with those instruments.
after all, on the bass lists i'm on (and i admit to being on more than one, sigh), noone expects that *everyone* is going to be playing r&b, or jazz, or "worship-based" music, or what-have-you. they tend to talk about gear problems/issues, technique issues, new bass discs, people they saw playing on tv, amps, etc. really it's not unlike most of the stuff that gets discussed here - - except this list does get into a few more esoteric realms of discussion ;-)
perhaps this is why we on the ld list tend to talk more about gear and technique than we do "music" (to answer that question a few weeks back) - - we play these instruments, but they don't define the music we play - - they're the "how," but they're not the "what" . . .
actually, andre's post made me feel a lot better about being involved in a loop fest at some point: i was always worried that i wouldn't be "loopy" enough (or something) for folks, but if i think about it more along the lines of a bass-fest (if you get my analogous drift), i can deal with it a little better.
anyway, ramblage ends . . .
stig
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