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I am best known as a blues musician
(working in a non-looping trio), but my weekly solo gigs allow me room to play
and sing blues standards and originals, any of which can be extended into a
guitar jam on the EDP. This is all fun, but exploring both jazz and
ambient areas really lends creativity to the gigs and I enjoy morphing back and
forth between spacious soundscapes or rhythmic trances and more traditional
blues/r&b fare. One of my favorite things to do is to
pretend the scene in front of my eyes is a film and that I’m composing
the score for it on the spot. Glancing around the room offers so many
different facets of human experience—a couple arguing, one party secretly
watching another, smiles that are widening from regard into romance, a lonesome
stare into the ever-present television, wait staff plying in a variety of moods—that
offer motifs to be interpreted into the Echoplex. It’s especially
nice when a long piece that has evolved through several movements and textures
draws a question from a listener: “What was the name of that last
thing you played? It was like a symphony.” Out of this, some things do get repeated
on different gigs and become a sort of vernacular for a while, but then become
lost later. I had one piece that evolved around the Christmas holidays
several years ago that even presented my mind with a title: ‘There
Used To Be Bells.’ One of my regular listeners got quite attached
to it and requested it regularly, but in her absence it has been
forgotten. I attempted to recall it this past winter—but no luck. From: E Gross
[mailto:slapbandjam@yahoo.com] Hi Loopers, I am new to looping and LD, have learned much in the past couple of
months. I have checked out lots of your available music, which sounds awesome.
My question to those that perform live is, is each performance you do
completely spontaneous? Or do you start out with a framework for how you want
to build a song. For example, for those who have a CD out, do you try to
repeat songs which are on your CD? I realize there are probably many different answers based on artistic
preference, I have been using what I call the tabula rasa method, in which I
start playing whatever comes to mind and take it from there. However the lack
of pre-planning leaves open the possibility of falling flat on my face in a
live setting (right now only my dog hears what I am playing and she is a very
good listener but biased). Many thanks in advance for your responses. E |