Re: Dig if u will my research paper

[mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

It's interesting that in the visual arts it's quite common to tell 
someone that you're going to a "sculpture" show or "photography" show, 
without telling anything about the style of the work that's being 
shown.  Of course, if you're talking to artists, you'll probably have 
to give more information than if you weren't.  Since we're musicians, 
it's probably the same thing... other than the fact that saying 
"looper" won't make too much sense to most people.

When asked what kind of music I do I say, "instrumental hip-hop 
influenced electronica where I'm kind of like a DJ, except I'm 
performing the sound instead of using a CD or vinyl record."  People 
seem to nod knowingly, but who knows?

Mark Sottilaro

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:19  AM, Matthias Grob wrote:

>
> While "american" is of the type "nationality", we dont quite know of 
> what type live looping is, since it may not be a style. Geoff claims 
> its a genre, others called it an artform... but of what type is 
> "rastaman"? Religion? Nationality? Yet everyone pictures him...
> So what I learned here, mainly from Rick, is that we better start to 
> use a term, even though we dont know its type.
>
> What matters is that the world gets an ida about what LiveLooping is 
> about. And for this, its usefull that we use the same term when we use 
> the technical process as defined pretty exactly by now, so with time 
> everyone get a feeling for what can come out of it.