Re: EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube

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

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> I haven't seen very many bands making good use of looping.

I'd agree with that, and I'd put Keller in this category, one because he 
isn't a band, and two his looping technique isn't really the highlight (as 
Per poins out). And especially the type where multple people are linked 
together via the same looping grid...like with Echoplexes linked...I was 
really hoping to see someone doing that at Y2K6, but no such luck...a lot 
of 
duos looping asynchronously. Wasn't it Per, Mathias, Rick, and several 
others who did this true group/loop thing in Europe several years ago?

> Personally, I find that there is a lot of very ambient loop music out 
> there ... while it's all well and good, and certainly has its place ... 
> ambient, sort of jazzy (good or bad jazzy .. either way) ... 
>experimental 
> music seems to be the default for most live loop musicians.  I simply 
> enjoy seeing someon do something that is not that.

I think the experimental stands on its own sepearate from the 
ambient/jazzy 
species you
site above. There aren't a lot of people doing really experimental looping 
in the strict sense
of the approach, but certainly ambient is very pervasive....probably 
because 
it is much easier
to pull off with a lot of cool gear and looping devices.

K-