Re: Ritardandi and accelerandi when live-looping.... any ideas?

["RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Some thoughts on Ritardandi, Accelerandi and stretching time in live 
looping:


1) My brother Bill does this all the time with his Repeater controlled by 
the
two expression pedals of his Behringer FCB1010.

Thankfully,  the new version of software is out for the original Repeater 
and they will be
releasing the Mark 2 model at the 2008 NAMM show.  My understanding is 
that 
it will
be at a much lower price point than before.    Bill and I have been in 
contact with the
new owners of Electrix and Bill has been using the new software (a review 
when you get a chance,
Bill if you haven't already written one?) so this is not the typical smoke 
and mirrors we've come to
accept from this company in the past...............it's also brand new 
owners so I think the previous ones
were having problems getting venture capital to keep the company afloat.

2) Additionally,  there are past posts somewhere where we talked about
stretching time and phrasing in long loops.

Steve Lawson hipped me to this idea.

You play a long loop that hints at metricity and constant metronomic time 
but stretches it.
You record a stretching phrase....................wait an equivalent 
length 
of time and then
record another one.........................doing this several times in a 
row, you can then
begin to record 'response'   tracks to the original 'call' loop.

Steve then would keep building the track but listening really intently to 
how he recorded
the original idea until by the end of the piece he has memorized his 
original loop and
can then begin to reharmonize and retimbralize it.

3)  on last thought:     time is relative in performance so if you lay 
tracks down that are fixed in length, you can
then play against that track with ritadandi and accelerandi giving the 
illusion that the whole track is stretching.

4)   you can also stop a loop and continue seemlessly playing in the style 
of what you have recorded with an
accelerandi or ritardandi  looping yourself again when you reach a new 
tempo.

I do this all the time in performance to create a more naturalistic flow 
of 
time.