Re: What public is attracted by a Y2K Sampler Video?

[doc rossi <docittern@gmail.com>]

My agent surprised me a couple of years back when we were talking  
about some new shows I wanted to present. He only books trad acts, but  
I asked how looping would go over with the usual trad audience in  
France, and he said something like "As long as you're not staring at  
your feet or the laptop the whole time, it should be fine," so he  
actually knew what I was talking about. That's not so surprising,  
really, since he's a lot hipper than I am...

On Dec 13, 2009, at 1:16 PM, andy butler wrote:

> That's exactly what I meant.
>
> If anyone feels in any way misrepresented by being called
> a loop artist, or whatever, and if I've in any way contributed
> to that then I apologise wholeheartedly.
>
> It's not really feasible to be a performing musician without
> some kind of label, whether it's one of those modern tightly
> defined genres that can be exited by adding the wrong kind of
> vocal sample, or something more nebulous, as is often the
> nature of genres.
>
>
> If I'm playing Renaissance Lute, it's "Renaissance Lute Music",
> albeit not played very well (and not in public).
>
> If I'm using new musical tools that haven't previously been
> used to their full potential, or simply haven't been
> used by anyone else, then I'm not going to use them to
> conform to some pre-existing genre.
> That being explained, it's rather simple minded of me,
> and perhaps somewhat unimaginative to call the particular
> music that emerges "livelooping".
> It's just a label, if someone hasn't heard of it, and let's
> face it no-one has, then at least it's not misleading.
>
> I can well appreciate that anyone who uses the new technology
> to work within an existing genre is naturally going to present  
> themselves
> by reference to that genre, that's what I'd do.
> ...however I don't have that option.
>
> hope that's not too much rant ;-)
> andy butler
>
> doc rossi wrote:
>> Instruments, software, hardware all fall into the category of  
>> "tools", so one can think of them as technical terms, and maybe a  
>> technique like looping, which combines all three, is also really a  
>> technical term. Maybe "Live Looping" is also a musical genre, but  
>> if it is, not too many people know about it or what it is - I think  
>> a lot of people would look for some other label, like Ambient, or  
>> Trip Hop or whatever. I use looping within traditional music, or  
>> folk or ethnic or whatever the devil you might want to call it, so  
>> for me looping describes a technique rather than a genre.
>> On Dec 13, 2009, at 9:06 AM, andy butler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Zoe Keating wrote:
>>>
>>>> i still think of looping as a technical term.
>>>
>>> like "cello"
>>>
>