Great subject!
I allways felt a bit sad that
although live looping makes playing solo easier, it might also cause
people to stay alone.
One of the main reason to build the LOOP delay
(which turned into the EDP) was the BrotherSync feature.
I did the
first session with it in '92 with David Hopkins.
But before I had
great times to play with others into the same delay machine.
Some of
the best recordings are on
http://matthias.grob.org/pMusic/CDsE.htmThe
most intense duos have been with percussionists: Giba, Bira,
David...
The first festival I participated was Loopstock. I
looked for someone to bring me there and Jon Wagner offered some
space in his overloaded fantastic old Volvo, next to all his drums. When
I heard he was druming, I asked to play together, so we met a few
days before and figured it out and it worked.
And I started
this week to edit the video! (learning...)
I will tell you when I
upload it.
And at Y2k7 I invited Arild Andersen to play with me -
which was a bit heavy for me (sync did not work), but still fun!
;-)
And today I talked with Per and he suggested to bring
up this social subject more, and I said: can you point me at videos of
duo recordings, with at least two players using loops most of the
time? He could not. I met very few
Urban Nature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJKp8KvABcLur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIc1uPcZUYImprovizone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lV3KN5g-fo
(special case since Os does the looping)
Mich Gerber:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1srd_bczs
(he plays professionally with a band, but just him looping)
Rick, Per
and Pellef:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAySrzSa7HgYes,
to be social here is great, to meet at festivals is even better,
but the best is to do it together!!
Matthias
On 12
Dec 2008, at 10:24, Ricky Graham wrote:
Hello
Everyone,
How many of you loop with an ensemble? Could you get
in touch with me as I'd like to ask you a few
questions.
Cheers,
Ricky
