Re: Great Quote about Looping by Brian Eno

["Randolf" <randolf@embryosongs.com>]

That's one aspect that I love about Live Looping... sometimes in privacy 
you 
get to hear it for yourself 1st the resulting crap before subjecting 
unsuspecting others. other times it's a blissful experienced that's shared 
by performer and the listener/s both witnessing the act of executing and 
sculpting to the point of eventual chance beauty...

Randolf

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From: "Mark Hamburg" <mark@grubmah.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 9:56 PM
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Subject: Re: Great Quote about Looping by Brian Eno

> When I was in school, there was a theater group that espoused an 
>anarchist 
> philosophy and was very concerned with not trampling anyone's artistic 
> vision. The result was that they would put on evenings of short one-act 
> plays that a professor accurately described as "30 minutes of good ideas 
> crammed into three hours". At some point, editing becomes critical. 90% 
>of 
> everything is crap. On the other hand, you may not know which 90% at the 
> time, so other ears or eyes or just a distance in time are critical to 
> making that analysis. The theater group needed a director who, for the 
> sake of the audience, would say "these is good, let's go with it; this 
> isn't working."
>
> For me, playing live improvised music is a crapshoot. There are moments 
>of 
> beauty. There are also times when I want to apologize to the audience 
>for 
> wasting their time.
>
> Mark
>