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Nicely put Ted. I'm with you, I couldn't have said it better. I'd just add with looping, you really want to make that note count, because you are going to keep hearing it for a while. Maybe with looping, there is less instrumental technique but more listening and judgment? On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:34 PM, tEd ® KiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote: > Howdy all! > > Different tools (whether our personally chosen instruments or our >preferred > levels of applied musical technology) sometime suggest or influence >wholly > different musical directions and outcomes. > > When I set aside electrical technology (as I sometime do for a time) I >tend > to play guitar and sound like a folk musician (some rough approximation >of > the Leo Kottke style of finger-picked guitar playing). > > This is neither bad nor good, it's just what that musical situation is >for > me personally. > > If civilization were to collapse and all this technology disappear, >that's > probably what I would continue doing in order to amuse myself musically. > > But in the hyper-techno-glutted and connected world that is, we already >have > one Leo Kottke - of which I am only a pale and inept copy. > > So, when I apply some level of electricty to the mix of things available >to > me (say looping and/or FX) my imaginative horizons are much less hemmed >in > by my own technical proficiencies (or lack thereof). > > I can both imagine and play many other things in many other tonal colors > that I might never have considered otherwise. > > Alas, having an instrument (or some combination of instrument and applied > technology) that simply produces gorgeous and/or interesting timbres all >by > itself (with modest technique), and loops them up into overwhelming walls > orchestral stereo sound, does tend to make one gravitate in the >direction of > greater dependence on the "sonic enhancements" of said technology than in > acquiring greater motor-physical command over an instrument and/or deeper > conceptual musical skills. > > That is a problem with any technology. > > These are just some thoughts . . . I am not even sure I will agree with >what > I said 5 minutes from now. > > I'm not even sure where I was going with it. > > Stereo? > > Oh, I definitely approve of it . . . I have 2 ears. > > :-) > > Ted > > On Jan 23, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Andy Owens wrote: > >> I certainly agree with Bill that "sound" can't replace music, but >> truths like this should be understood on a discussion board like LD >> :-) >> >> Ah true Per, but thats why people go more than once to church, to get >> reminded!! >> >> Andy only the O one > > -- Art Simon simart@gmail.com myspace [dot] com/artsimon