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Well, in two of my recent looping gigs the midi input failed completely in song 1, and I had to totally abandon all plans to loop! (fortunately, they were both duo settings!) Seriously, I have found fixed pieces to be a little too rigid to work for me in a live looping context (some people, like Amy X., pull them off with awe-inspiring precision, but have less improv). Somehow, in trying to *re*-create a piece, I often lose the flow I might otherwise be in touch with - it's not a problem when playing familiar guitar songs, but once looping technology is involved, the price of mistakes seems to go up. So better to be in a context where mistakes are harder to make. It's worse to try and force something that's not gelling than to be a little slow in transitioning to the next interesting thing, imo, learned somewhat painfully from experience. Of course, everyone is different. Better, I think, to have a set of fallback *strategies* than pieces, in the vein of Eno's oblique strategies, but more looping specific; e.g. "throw 1 random sound into a very short loop and then go straight into multiply" (like the piece I posted here a couple of days ago). or "record a totally new loop, play over it for a short time, then undo". or just "switch to a patch that might be more inspiring". On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote: > > Playing without a net is what I end up doing. Sometimes it goes well. >Sometimes I'm running on empty and I wish I had some material to fall >back on. > > Mark > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Warren Sirota wrote: > >> Sorry if this sounds flip, but I'd just say, play without a net. (i >> say this without having followed any of the previous thread that >> spawned this) >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Hamburg<mark@grubmah.com> wrote: >>> >>> When I was last in conscious recording mode -- as opposed to, the >recorder >>> happens to be running while I'm playing -- the approach I found myself >>> taking was to improvise until I found something I liked, then hone in >on >>> various elements of it playing the "piece" repeatedly until I had the >flow >>> down, then record it possibly doing a couple takes while doing so. >Having >>> then committed the piece to some form of recording medium, I would then >>> proceed to let it flow back out of my brain which was fine until I >found >>> myself in a live performance situation with no material to fall back >on. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Warren >> http://www.warrensirota.com >> >> > -- Warren http://www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=6679 http://www.warrensirota.com