Re: Hey! I'm loopin' on TV!

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

Looping is killing music?  And all this time I thought it was synthesizers 
that were doing that.  No, wait--drum machines.  Or was it electric 
guitars?  Or long hair?  Or race music?  Drugs?  The flat five?  This is 
all so confusing--can someone help me out here?
(Wistful, concerned expression),

I will say that if I was you, I'd be sure to sample this guy's monologue 
and use it in many future performances, as you continue to kill music.
 

TravisH

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Someone said:

"Let's get into something really controversial, and
that's music. I had an opportunity recently to go over
to the Zeitgeist Gallery and they had an exposition of
'electronic music' and they had all these boxes with
electronic gear and they would 'loop' and 'resample'
and do all kinds of tricks with a note that they would
either strum on a guitar or play on a saxophone or
whatever... We did a Big Band about six months ago, an
interview with a Big Band and the opinion was
expressed at the time that we may be seeing the end of
traditional instruments... [Wistful, concerned
expression...] So take a look at this, and don't close
your mind to it and think in terms of if you could see
something like this in, say, a cocktail lounge. This
type of music does not have, you might say, an
association with it, it's almost like people who juice
their vegetables and fruit, turning it into juice,
they eliminate the digestive process. As a result, the
stuff dumps right into their bloodstream, and they say
this is, of course, very beneficial. Again, this music
does not have the normal association with it; as a
result, it DUMPS RIGHT INTO YOUR MIND! [Big hand
gestures] So it is... it's POWERFUL! And again, don't
turn it off; give it a listen and see what you think.
Is this gonna be THE FUTURE OF MUSIC?"

(That's followed by ten minutes of me looping. The
first few minutes is a bit embarrassing, but it gets
better when the loopage kicks in, and plays right to
the end through the show's credits.) 

Dumping pureed music right into your mind,