Re: Articles on Live Looping as Compositional Tool

[Stefan Smulovitz <stefan@kenaxis.com>]

Here are some of the resources I have been using in my MFA.

While not on  looping - this might be useful as it talks about the  
origins of using the term instant composition instead of  
improvisation: http://www.icporchestra.com/

I've also found the articles in DJ Spooky - aka Paul Miller's new book  
that he edited, "Sound Unbound" very interesting. 
http://www.djspooky.com/articles.php 
  Deals more with sampling than looping but there are many crossovers.

I'm using a bit of Giles Deleuze as well. His book Difference and  
Repetition which I find a bit harder to get through or a great article  
in A Thousdand Plateaus called "On the Refrain".  Also using Henri  
Bergson's concept of intuition as a way to connect improvisation to  
philosophical musings.  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Bergson)

My thesis will be focused on the more generalized concept of the  
relationship between improvisation and composition but hope some of  
these ideas are useful. Looping brings with it a stronger sense of  
form than open improvisation due to the nature of repetition - but the  
core idea that one is composing and not merely making random stuff up  
is the same.

Stefan