Re: Currently available looper music webpage

["David" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

Of course one can also just use FIND on the Edit menu and search a page for
words that way....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre LaFosse" <altruist@earthlink.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Currently available looper music webpage


> Hi Greg!
>
> This is a very cool idea, although I could see it becoming very
> difficult to manage due to the sheer number of people with music
available.
>
> If you (or anyone) were to set this up, I'd suggest making several
> "filters" available, to help narrow down the path.  In other words,
> offer several different searchable categories/keywords for people to
> select, so that visitors have ways of sorting through the hundreds or
> thousands of different discs/sound files that would be listed.
>
> Some of these might include:
>
> - Search by style/genres (ambient, hip-hop, glitch, pop, etc.)
> - Search by principal instrument used (guitar, violin, bass, voice, etc)
> - Search by princiapl looper used (Echoplex, DL4, Max/MSP, etc)
> - Search by "technical category" (i.e. "nothing prerecorded," "some
> prerecorded, some live," etc)
> - Search by "sounds like such-and-such artist" (i.e. someone puts in
> "Laurie Anderson" and gets Amy X Neuburg, "Bill Frissel" gets Steve
> Lawson, etc.)
> - Search by compositional approach ("free improv," "composed," etc.)
> - Search by year released
>
> These are all just suggestions, of course, but without some way to
> narrow the field, I think it'll be very hard to people to weed through
> the large amount of material there...
>
> Anyway, it's a very generous offer, Greg, and I'm sure anything along
> these lines will be very helpful and welcome...
>
> Best,
>
> --Andre LaFosse
> The Echoplex Analysis Pages:
> http://www.altruistmusic.com
>