RE: Repetitive Miniatures

["greg williams" <gregorwilliams@comcast.net>]

Daryl,

Thanks for the link to your miniatures. I'm really enjoying them, and I 
like
the mix of high and low fidelity. The mix of quiet gentle acoustic guitar
and sonic strangulation is very beautiful and nostalgic.

I can only put mp3s on infinite repeat in the windows player, but yours 
open
in quicktime. I'll work on that so that I can listen to them for a longer
period of time as you intend. The miniatures are screaming out to be
listened to for a longer period.

When I bought my first EDP I gravitated into improvising and creating a 
loop
over a very long period of time, multiplying, reversing, experimenting etc.
and when I was satisfied with the texture, I would set the feedback to 100%
and record the thing looping over and over for about 5-10 minutes or so (on
a Tascam 424!). I found when I listened to them, I wished that I had
recorded them for a longer period - I kept having to stop it and rewind to
continue, which would kind of blow the experience.

Your idea of creating and release nothing but static loops which could be
repeated seamlessly as long as the listener likes is fascinating. Whatever
format you ultimately choose, I'll certainly buy one. Thanks again.

~Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl Shawn [mailto:highhorse@mhorse.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:36 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Repetitive Miniatures

My pleasure...I once bought a box of 100 30-second loop cassettes 
(answering machine tapes) off Ebay for one red cent. Soon I realized 
that for the kind of looping I do in regular playing, I like shorter 
homemade straight loop tapes of about nine seconds, which can also be 
flipped over for reverse effects (the answering machine tapes are a 
Mobius strip that can only be played in one direction). In fooling 
around with a 30-second tape, I built up a loop, and at some point I 
felt like it was "finished", a complete piece of music to which nothing 
else really needed to be added. I let the sucker loop in the background 
for a good hour or so and really enjoyed how, even in hearing exactly 
the same thing over and over with no long-term development, my 
appreciation of it would change and I'd notice different things.

So I'm going through these tapes - occasionally cutting them up or 
making different kinds of loops out of them - making these wholly static 
pieces. I listen to them all the time, myself, always just letting them 
percolate one at a time for a good while. It's a different kind of 
listening experience, and certainly an interesting creation experience 
too, as the nature of tape looping precludes the possibility of having a 
metronomic beat. Building the loop is pleasingly unpredictable.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> I'm intrigued.  Can you share the orig. thread?  More about repetitive
> miniatures and your ideas?
> -Qua
>