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Hey Zoe, Not to make you blush more, but I've got to second the awesomeness comment. More than just impressed, I went and checked out your music, and its just plain great :). So, I don't know how much this is about the mics now, but I noticed that you say you use a "empty-score" (a blank musical framework in the form of pre-programmed midi sequences that I then play the music into) I've been experimenting with this idea, and was wondering, do you have the midi sequences as freely callable tools at your disposal (i.e. non-sequentially individually callable) or is the form locked in, and it varies more by what you play each time into the "empty-score". I was thinking through this idea with Kid Beyond over the summer, as one of his songs, 'Cathedrals', is more or less an empty score in ableton, that takes the input material and midi clips it around to form the song. At the far extreme you could even predeterimine the song as one giant clip, which would require you to know when to play what, but after you hit start, would not require foot switching etc. This of course is an extreme, and would be very limiting to amount of improvisation involved, but its a neat to look all the way to the end of the spectrum. I could also imagine a world, where composers of "empty-scores" could share their scores with other musicians, who could learn how to play them and come up with entirely different music, that would still be bound together to the fundamentals of the empty score loop architecture. You could even write some stuff down on a piece of paper, a "real" score to help an artist learn your "empty" score. What seems cool about the idea is not so much the codifying and reductionist thinking, but the concept that through speaking a common language, people could start sharing their architectures they've developed, their empty scores, with eachother, allowing us to be simultaneously loop players, of our own scores and other's scores, but also loop composers, of scores to share with other loop musicians. So, related to that idea, I was wondering, to you, or anyone else who's been working with these ideas, how much of your empty score is predetermined, and how much is left flexible ussually? What types of things do you program into those midi sequences (midiclips? Do you use ableton?). Looping changes? Bringing back old parts? Fade outs? Effects? I'm been working on this myself, using midiclips in ableton, but I've been stuggleing with setting up the architecture in a way that encourages creativity as opposed to giving me either too much to think about, or made me feel like I was playing in a box. Cheers, Jesse --- Zoe Keating <cello@zoekeating.com> wrote: > *blush* thank ye! > > hey, we all start somewhere. and even if music can > only be "hobby", > it is no less valid. > > my first looping gig was at y2k2 and i was so > nervous i could hardly > hold the bow. my most recent gig was on jay leno, on > tuesday (but not > looping alas...). > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_GHbuFlya4 > > > On Sep 22, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Chris D'Errico wrote: > > > By the way, I checked out your website & you're > amazing. > > > > My latest "project" is called "Sidewalk Beggar", a > humble > > undertaking considering your accomplishments. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz