Re: the impermanence of looping

[Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>]

Greetings Dennis and welcome to the wonderful world of
looping-as-philosophy!

The looping process certainly allows us to live with our creations quickly
and easily, and therefore gives us the opportunity to choose more clearly 
as
to what is worth preserving. For me, looping creates a genuine sense of
living with my actions (as in "Oops. I didn't mean to play that note. But
here it comes again. And Again. And again...") and of non-attachment (as in
"Hmmm, I've got a symphony of  fifty guitars swirling around. Do I really
want to keep it? Nah.").

Buddha-Looping!

Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
coyotelk@optonline.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Montgomery" <morpheus@speakeasy.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: the impermanence of looping


> 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
>