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I would NOT see looping as a "technique of electronics, not performance", the loop created will influence my improvisation (real time composing) just as another musician plying a progression would. And as a loop performer a 2 measure loop WOULD be played, i decide to keep is static as long as that makes sense, fell good or whatever, then I use the looper instrument to alter the loop, feedback, inserts, reverse. The logic applys to both traditiionaly composed music as well as improvisation, the looper is an new instruments that affects what the composer/improviser can do.. If i was composing for a looper musician i would in the written music write down all loop manipulation just as i would write in scores what a violin would play. In this sense looping instrument would most defenitly influence composition (or improvisation) since it IS a new instrument with unique capabilities... i my veiw at least.. Regards, Anders > From: folkstone57@operamail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:14:13 +0100 > Subject: Re: Academic/musicological research on looping technique? > > If a performer electronically loops a phrase, say a 2 measure idea, the performer is no longer performing that part. It exists as an electronic sample that is just being repeated by a loop pedal or sampler or whatever electronic device is being employed. It differers in a compositional sense because there is not a musician there reading a piece of music & playing the same bit perfectly & repeatedly. Any variations on that bit must be accomplished by electronic means, not by a performer i.e. the musician who originally played it. Keep in mind we're talking about this in regards to music theory & composition that one would learn in school. "Looping" in regards to how this emails is discussed does not get covered in a class on theory & composition because it isn't relavent there. In a Music Studio programme, of course, this is very common, all the way back to the use of tape loops in all types of music. > > > > At 2010.11.08 05:53 PM, Mark Showalter wrote: > > >> part, but again, it does not mean you get the exact same bit > > >> played repeatedly. "Looping", the way it is used here, is very > > >> definitely the idea of a recorded part that gets played over & > > >> over again. It is a technique of electronics, not performance, > > >> which is what my point really is. > > > > > > > > > > Mark Showalter > Minden Jot! > > myspace.com/folkstone57 > http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Showalter > <a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/99/F2BFFC9AD8D6528EA1E10C1043965108.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a> > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: > Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com > |