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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote: > I dont know where looping will go in the future, I don't think "looping" will go anywhere. Unless people use it *as an instrument* to create interesting music. I think it's fair to compare with any other instrument; guitar is not going anywhere - guitar music does. So I think we should focus more on "live looping music" than on "looping". It's a big difference. "Looping" is a nerdy topic but "hearing live looping music" can actually affect the masses. I can spend lovely hours discussing ways to set up a floating twang bar on a Strat with another guitar player but everyone else will go blanc-faced and hit a coma state if they don't zombie away from us in time. But just talk about Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix or anyone that uses a guitar for making music, and the discussion will bring in everyone around the table! People appreciate beautiful wallpaper in a room but take no interest in the glue and knife used by the man who rigged that room. In your example with the busker using an RC2 the looper is typically used as a recorder. That's not of interest to anyone - but the music may be. What may "go somewhere" is when looping is used as an instrument, i.e. to create unique sound and expression. The Robert Fripp Guitar Player interview from 1986 that Richard Sales posted a link to a couple of hours ago talks about this in general terms regarding the use of guitar synth. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com