Re: anti-looper bigots / Miles & Teo

[Brian Good <bsgood@gmail.com>]

andy butler wrote:
> looppool@cruzio.com wrote:
>> the Rev Fevers wrote:
>> "I wonder how they felt when they later found out that he and Teo 
>Marcero
>> employed a lot of looping in the over all creation of Bitches Brew,etc.
>> Speaking of that, here is some inspirational reading.  Enjoy...
>>
>> 
>http://milesite.blogspot.com/2009/02/teo-macero-on-producing-miles-davis.html
> 
>>
>>
> 
> The procedure as detailed there.
> 
> 1) Session recorded
> 2) Whole session mixed down
> 3) Session edited to 8-9 minute masters (Teo + Miles)
> 4) Teo uses editing to repeat sections of the music to make a whole 
>album.

If you know just where to listen on "Silent Way," you can hear somebody 
drop what sounds like a trumpet harmon mute. When the section is 
recapitulated later, you get to hear it again, suggesting that there was 
some cutting and pasting (actually, slicing and taping) going on in that 
album too.