Re: how do you loop?

["Stephen Moyes" <stephenmoyes@blueyonder.co.uk>]

For solo looping I have recently started using software for looping and 
processing (Mobius, Audiomulch, various vsts). Playing in groups, or for 
solo gigs where looping is only a small part of the performance, I use 
hardware (DL4, various effects).

I first started using looping some years ago to build up 
drones/atmospheres/soundscapes, but more recently I do a certain amount of 
melodic/harmonic/rhythmic looping, as the mood takes me. My main 
instruments 
for live looping are guitar and cello. Almost all of  the music I play is 
improvised.

With Mobius I use between two and four tracks, not synchronised. If I want 
synchronised layers of the same length I do that all in one track, the 
same 
as I would with the dL4.

I have never tried looping synchronised to other players and the idea of 
it 
fills me with horror. I may have a go at it one day though, just as am 
experiment to see what happens.

Three things you simply must listen to if you never have:
Jon Rose and Veryan Weston - Temperament
Giacinto Scelsi - The Complete Works for Clarinet
Crass - Penis Envy

Steve

Steve Moyes
www.stevemoyes.org.uk
www.creativemusic.org.uk
www.creativemusic.blip.tv


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nevyn Nowhere
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:29 AM
Subject: how do you loop?
How do you loop?  What is your ideal setup and process, and what is your 
usual setup and process?  Whether you use hardware/software/a mix of both 
(ok, I'm slanted, I'm always more curious about the last, since that is 
how 
I like to go, but I'm curious about it all, as from time to time I do the 
other options as well), I'd like to know your live process.

PS: 2-3 suggestion from anyone and everyone on the list of 
music/musicians/etc that I simply must listen to.