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I was thinking about this a lot at work today; maybe one thing that may be happening (in my case anyway) when we loop polyphonic instruments is that much of the time, in the interest of timbral variety and loop-clarity, we might approach the instrument as if it were indeed monophonic, with the understanding that the looping device(s) will provide the polyphony. I know I do that quite a bit with guitar, layering single notes, particularly as I start to build a loop. When I loop one-note things like flutes or theremin, I'll consciously try to keep sparseness in mind, because I know sooner or later I'll have that monolithic wall o' sound going, and keeping it spare on the way in is what makes each of my improvised pieces (sort of) different from each other. How many of you who play normally-multi-voiced instruments would say that this is true for you: when you're NOT looping, use of struck or closely arpeggiated chords is more common than when you're looping, in which case the chords are often built within the loop rather than played all at once? -t- --- a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > >A lot of looping guitarists seem to like using the > e-bow. I think that too > >makes you monophonic, right? > > Essentially yes, but it's possible to pluck non-ebow > notes while ebowing. > ( also 2 ebows is possible) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com