AW: When is Live Looping not Live Looping?

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Hi Joseph,

before I go into any details, note that the required formatting for this
list is plain text, not HTML as you used.

That being said: there are a lot of discussions in this mailing list's
archives about the validity of using pre-recorded samples in a live looping
performance. The short summary is: some believe in it, others don't.

Some artists sound different on an album than they do live. Sometimes, the
live version is better, sometimes it's worse, sometimes it's different. I
personally believe that this is well ok (but then, my original music in 
this
millenium was freely improvised exclusively, so for that reason live
performances will always sound different than any release). This is true 
for
many loopers, but contrary to the example quoted by you, in many cases the
live performances will sound similar to the album releases.

One important point regarding your message seems to be to me that while we
are all looping musicians here, this doesn't necessarily make us one-man
bands, although solo performances are by far the most common lineup for
loopers [1].

Finally, I'd like you to direct you to two recordings of mine which are
available under creative commons license [2]. 
The first one, "Quelques Papiers D'Abord", is definitely not a one-man band
- it's a collection of realtime internet collaborations in my "kybermusik"
performance series, which has also been featured at Y2K6loopfest, Finloop
and BEMF3. Each track features two to three performers who sit at different
locations - most of them loop, some don't. So although these tracks (with
the exception of "Advantages in Freeform Breeding") are not "live" in the
sense of "in front of an audience", they are all direct-to-2bus improvised
performances.
The second one, "Weird Specialist", is an unordered collection of some of 
my
solo (i.e. "one man band") recordings. Again, all of them have been 
recorded
direct-to-2bus, and some of them ("The Streets", "I left my Pants in San
Francisco") also in front of a live audience. But again, everything is 
"from
the moment", so probably my live shows don't sound exactly the same (and
people who heard my recent performances at BEMF3 and Berlin Loopfest will
agree that they actually sound vastly different).
For background info on these, please visit my website [3].

Best,

        Rainer


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[1] In a survey conducted by the author of this email, 97% of the 
population
would use looping in solo performances, while 51% would use it in an
ensemble context.
http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200709/msg01183.html
[2] http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/straschill/
[3] http://www.moinlabs.de