Re: Loop approach: Loop as effect

[Greg Waltzer <gwaltzer@optonline.net>]

Lots of people play effects interactively, especially in electronic music.
An effect is something that alters the sound, but does not generate it's 
own
sound.

Kim Flint wrote:

> To me an effect is something that just sits there and does it's thing 
>with
> little or no interaction from the user. Like a reverb, or a chorus or
> distortion pedal, at least the way most people use such things. Sound 
>goes
> in, gets changed in some consistent way, comes out again. Once you've
> turned the effect on you otherwise go about playing your instrument, 
>which
> is the thing you interact with in order to convert whatever is inside you
> into audible music outside of you. The effect simply affects the way it
> sounds. So to me the instrument is interactive, the effect passive.
>
>  From that perspective, a loop that is simply recorded and left to repeat
> indefinitely would fall more in the "effect" category. When you make
> looping an interactive effort where various techniques are used to change
> the resulting sound according to your musical directive, then looping
> becomes more of an instrument.