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I sit at a computer form most of my waking hours - at work and home. Now , as I being my exploration into s/w tools for music, it will be even more hours, especially during my learning curves. Many musicians feel it is important to move their body (and remember to breathe), to facilitate the Flow. Wearable computing isn't quite there yet, but won't be long - wireless heads-up display and datagloves for interacting with the s/w control surfaces - hmmm.. What do you think - does sitting in a relatively fixed position, at a computer, or set of control surfaces help or hinder Flow ? -Qua -----Original Message----- From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:14 AM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Flow and Electronic Musical Instrument Design On 18 maj 2007, at 19.14, Qua Veda wrote: > I found this great article which bridges some things that I've been > working on personally and at work (flow concepts) with electronic > musical instrument design. I think many of you will appreciate and > enjoy it as well. > > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/12/29/flow_1204.html Yes, very interesting article! Had me start thinking about how I constantly work on my imaginable "mind maps" for creative improvisation. In any given musical situation I want to be able to keep an immediate knowledge of at least three alternative strategies to go forwards. It may typically be combining ideas on different, complementary sounds or ideas on transition between different emotions in music and how to make that happen when working with tools like sound, melody, timing, harmony, style... The flow factor is why I like live looping so much compared to composing or producing recorded music. A funny detail, regarding this mental work, is that in praxis it cooks down to the simple question "which parameters can I take away to reduce my options?" But when I talk to fellow musicians I'm finding that quite a lot of people think about it in the opposite way, as "how can I get more options available?" ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://www.myspace.com/looproom http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/per.boysen/ http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/lo.fi.lazer/