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RE: gesamtkunstwerk



Title: RE: gesamtkunstwerk

>>>This is one of the examples where it requires you to incorporate the tech
failures into the Gesamtkunstwerk (a term coined by Richard Wagner to
describe music, lyrics, theatre elements and everything around it becoming
one big piece of art)...I remember having a repeater dropping out of sync
during a performance while I was singing, so I started to sing lyrics about
people subjected to equipment failures and did a call and response thing
with the repeater resyncing and dropping out again...<<
> > (Mark Sottilaro) If you want a looper that chases a moving
> clock, the
> > Repeater is king.
>
> Be warned though that the Midi sync feature of the Repeater
> can be a little unreliable (at least it was on my fateful
> unit). The few times I synced it to a DJ's laptop, it kept
> doing random things like doubling the tempo....
> One of these times was at a gig :(
> --
> Stuart Wyatt<<<

aiiieeee!...... amongst these three posts lies the truth..... caveat loop-or.

I can add thusly: the repeater is indeed great at following an external clock, & doing what it sees fit by way of time compression or stretching to make the loops fit the new tempo. it does occasionally decide to go to double tempo /but only (in my case) when recording a new loop from scratch & the external clock is still selected but absent/. this seems to confuse it.

& it will occasionally do stuff like this when you are on stage or on the radio. mine has stopped suddenly when it was carrying the bulk of a performance (i.e. we were resting some sporadic noises on a bed of loopiness when the loopiness suddenly went away). it says stuff like "not ready" or "cfc too slow" seemingly at random, when at other times the same combination of operations doesn't seem to bother it. can cfc get fragmented?

"honour thy mistake as a hidden intention" says fripp, & there's something similar from john bonham about "if you make a mistake, do it two or three times so people think you meant it that way"..... so if the repeater drops out suddenly, we pretend it was supposed to.

d.



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