Re: why do we loop?or why play live?

[David Gans <david@trufun.com>]

At 1:58 AM -0700 10/7/05, Luis Angulo wrote:

>i did a loop show at an art
>gallery and as i was bulding up some guitar loops as i
>heard a guy commenting next to me "oh yeah,nice,sure
>but thats no art playing through prerecorded stuff"
>this agreviated me because i had already taken the
>time to explain the audience briefly what i was doing
>and that same guy was there!

Ack!  That is annoying.  But I think there's always going to be some 
wiseass who thinks he's being fooled.

In my experience, most people are surprised and delighted when they 
figure out that it's one guy playing four or five guitars at a time.

Whenever I have an opportunity to explain what's going on, I make a 
very careful point of saying it's all done in real time.

Looping isn't the center of what I do.  I'm a songwriter who uses 
looping to enhance his performance.  I almost always begin with a 
loop improvisation,  starting with a simple chord pattern or 
single-note line, but it fairly quickly leads into a song.  I use the 
loop device to capture the changes so I can play a solo later - that 
kind of thing.

There's always gonna be someone who dismissed this stuff as 
gimmickry.  There's always gonna be some condescending (and 
ill-informed) asshole in the crowd.  Screw 'em.





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