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On Jan 25, 2005, at 1:49, Dennis Montgomery wrote: > Hi all, > I just started looping with the arrival of my EDP+ about a month ago > and I try to create a new sound collage/loop every day. Spending some > time every day working on music has been my routine for quite awhile. > My primary musical activity of the past 20+ years has been to write > and record "songs". This is a very goal oriented activity which looks > toward the end result being a CD of my music. The hardest aspect of > this mode of work is that I work out a part and once it's recorded, I > have no real reason to play it again. It's like saying goodbye to a > great new friend as soon as you capture a representative recording of > it. > > Anyway, since I started looping I've made it a point to not record > anything. This is very exciting and unfamiliar ground for me. There > have been some pieces that I turn the feedback knob back as I sit > debating whether to let the creation fade into the ether or hit a > record button somewhere fast! So far, I just let them all fade away. > It definitely forces me to focus on my music very differently than I > did before...the point being the present moment rather than the future > finished piece. I come to looping from a Fripp/Eno place and am > familiar with Fripp's perspectives of music and musicians. I just > never thought I'd find it this much fun to do myself! > > I'm not really as much of a serious nutcase as this sounds (hmmm...or > am I???), but it's trippy to me that deciding to try realtime looping > has opened this whole philosophical area for exploration that I never > really tried before. > Dennis Dennis, That was a very inspiring post! I'm thinking and feeling the same way. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen --- http://www.looproom.com (international) http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen