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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Grob" <matthias@grob.org> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 04:49:AM Subject: Re: Who here considers themselves a "Live Looper"? > > > > > Just out of interest: Who on this list considers > >> themselves a "Live > >> Looper"? > > > >If looping "live" in my living room counts, then I'm > >a Live-Looper. > > yes, sure! > This seems like a weakness of the name: it may suggest that this > music has to happen on stage. > > >I'm also a guitar player. And yet, > >you still don't know what style of music I play > >(or if I have any style at all). :) > > style-less may be a style :-) Well, that might be as exact as it gets. That is, if one needs to know what "kind" of music something is before considering it as music, neh? I've been over and over the various attempts at categorization performed by the Big Five and their acolytes on this music we sort of do. This thread alas explores it all again, or further. Why is it necessary? Folks may not understand it any more if it has a sign hanging on its neck saying what it "is", and it should be evident by now...? I'm reminded of my struggles to get "accepted" as a downhill skiier while still in high school. High School Teachers in roles like that of the ski team tend to get allowed to turn their process into a clique, since it's not mainstream sports amongst other reasons; this was no different in Ridgewood High in the 70s, where the team was "run" by a "popular" Spanish teacher. Despite having a great deal of control (as well as supreme joy!) in my own technique, never having a crash, to say nothing of being clocked at over 70 MPH a number of times, I was excluded from the ski team because it was thought by this "expert" that I "had no skiing style". Go figure! After a life like that, performing music that happens to utilize a series of looping processes as a partial canvas - and therefore of course uncatagorizable by the Hoi Polloi - seems in retrospect like nothing more than a natural outgrowth for me. I don't care what listeners/critics/record companies call it so long as someone hears it, yes? So I think the term "live looping" is as applicable as "nekkid nerve-ending psychological mud-wrestling simulation via musical extents", if you ask me. Well, by proxy anyway. :) Steve Goodman EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net/Other - Quasi-daily Cartoon http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack - Cartoons via Medialine!