Re: jealous of bay area gigs

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

My experience has been that the "live looping" aspect doesn't really
matter to venues when you're pitching a show.  You go to the booking
agent and say "I play music, and I'd like to play here with a few of
my buddies and people will come see us--whaddayasay?"  And they'll
either say "Okay!" or "What do you guys sound like?" at which point
you give them a CD.  If the style of your music is somewhat
left-of-center, as is much of the music made by people on Looper's
Delight (that is not a criticism), then that's going to be the
obstacle you have to overcome when looking for gigs, not whether
you're dependent on quantised cycle multiplication.  And I say that as
someone who could not play a solo gig if my EDP went on the fritz that
night.  I sell a few CDs at every show and the only question people
ask is "Does the CD sound like what I just heard?" which is a curious
reversal from the usual "Can you pull the CD off live?"

The technology used to make the music is of minimal interest to most
people who aren't musicians, and the idea of a box that records what
you're playing and then lets you play it back right away isn't that
exotic these days.  Sure, afterwards someone may come up and ask you
about what you're doing to "make it sound like that", but only if they
liked what you were doing.  If your music is unpalatable or
uncompelling, the fact that it was or wasn't produced with a looping
device doesn't really enter into the equation.  Gadgetry is so rampant
in music today that unless you're trying to play in a hardcore folk
venue, I don't think anyone raises an eyebrow.

Rick has been an advocate of promoting these events as "live looping",
and if it helps, then do it, but I'd hate for someone trying to find
somewhere to play to think that they have to find a "live looping"
venue instead of just a venue open to their music.


On Apr 9, 2005 2:15 AM, loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> 
> Having been one of the people who has put on a lot of live looping shows 
>in
> the Bay Area
> I wanted to share with you that everyone of these gigs was chiseled out 
>of
> stone because
> there was no such thing as a venue for live looping...............people
> didn't know what it was.
>