Re: What looping is, is not, or might be (Was: Please lets all sit together now and define what we do!)

[sine@zerocrossing.net]

I could not have said it better.  The spear is not hunting, but it does
add new aspects to hunting.  The looper isn't music, it just adds new
aspects.

ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote:

>
> Looping isn't an "art form" in itself . . . at least not yet
> anyway (IMHO). We're right at the moment that it is still
> just another tool . . . like when some ancient ancestor
> found that he could throw a small sharp rock with a lot
> more lethal power if it were attached to a pole (making
> a spear). But that doesn't mean that when it really, finally
> becomes part of us (say in a 100 years) that it won't be.
> Perhaps Andre is closer to that goal than any of us -- and
> even he doesn't think of it as a separate art form yet.