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

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

This is why I created a 1 sheet pamplet on "What is Real-Time Looping" 
which
I stack on a counter in the venue..and tell folks they can take one to
understand what I am doing. I break down looping into a simple analogy
involving several tape recorders and their tape cut and merged into a loop
to build a series of audio loops, etc, etc. I provide pictures of my EDPs,
the foot controller, etc...and then describe my version of free improv in
this context.

Kris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gans" <david@trufun.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: why do we loop?or why play live?


> 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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> -- 
>
> David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
> Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730
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