Re: why do we loop?

[Janosik <wklemmer1@yahoo.com>]

To make as many "beeps and boops" as I can to my heart's content.

Ben <benoitruelle@yahoo.fr> wrote:

Same here.
I won't perhaps speak of meditation per se, but well as a way to evacuate
the stress of the day.
Just letting the stress go out via a guitar or a synth brings back calm and
serenity.
It's amazing to see how the first part is usually full of distorsion and
noise effects while the end is more clean and harmonic.
I'm looping also because I'm lazy and believe in the happy accident, I
almost never save a preset on a synth or multiFx, I never record my
experiments (this may change with mobius and the quick save button), I can
play with the sound coming from the random button on some of my synths
during several hours.

Looping is also a way to make what I want when I want. It's less stress than
reheasing in a band every day X at time Y. I can do noisy stuff if I want,
experiment, stop, let the loop run till the next day and start again. That's
freedom.
Then you swith the looper off and it's gone. Looping is like life, past
actions live on and on, sometime fading, but still giving you a direction to
follow.

Looping is like painting with colors.
The 7 notes of the scale, the 7 colors of the raibow, the 7 chakras, all
these are linked. Notes are given chakra colors.
This bring us back to the meditation stuff. Speak about looping!

I'm glad this subject came in.

Some day my website (www.the-7-wandering-stars.be.tf) will be ready and I
could stream or post stuff to an hypothetic audience. But in the meantime
looping is mainly an egocentric thing.

Sorry if my bad english makes me explaining stuff a bit laborious.

Ben.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Pafford"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: why do we loop?


Looping as meditation describes me as well. I like to think it's
similar to any contemplative art form. Take for example chinese
caligrahpy. Is there an audience? Does the caligrapher judge the
value of their art by the response of a bar or coffee house crowd? Of
course not. Well, neither do I. Looping (or not, I also play
unlooped classical guitar) exercises my mind and my spirit while
entertaining me. If others like it, great, but I don't feel a need to
seek an audience. Over the past couple of years, I've stopped even
recording myself, preferring to let it go as part of the moment,
hoping to find something new the next time I pick up the instrument.

Todd


On 10/5/05, eutropic@mindspring.com wrote:
> I loop as a form of meditation, although that sounds so pretentious that I
> now
> regret writing it! Well you know, it is calming, centering, playful. It is
> just what I do.
>
> I have a day gig that keeps me pretty busy, but other than short periods
> of my
> life, performing was not on my list of needs or wants.
>
> It's been a while since I was active in the looping community, but a new
> Microsoft-free PC has got me reconnected to the list, and I'm planning on
> being in Santa Cruz on Saturday too.
>
> Kamlapati
> www.circleroundthesun.com






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