Re: livelooping articles for a guitar magazine

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

Assuming they want a decent amount of room for each article, I can
imagine 3 nice deep articles:

1) A summary, definition and history of live looping, including how
it's different than using pre-recorded loops. Includes a history
starting with Reich/Terry Riley (or even earlier tape music stuff,
though I don't know of any that are *live* looping) up to modern
stuff, perhaps including something about how the transition from tape
to digital affected its use.

btw, Reich's "It's Gonna Rain" only uses pre-recorded loops, but in
"Come Out", he may have dubbed the live output onto other tape
machines during the performance. (I'm not sure).

2) A survey of the current crop of looping offerings (hardware and
software), including a description of the most common features.
Perhaps this could include a chart of the most common ones and what
they offer.

3) A "getting started" article, which surveys the different techniques
and uses. For example, contrasting:
--folks who record backing tracks and solo over them
--folks who are in "constant assembly" mode (where the loop itself is
the main focus, and the musician is continuously feeding it.)
--folks who build a pop song-structure by carefully adding and
subtracting live-recorded loops to make verses, choruses, bridges and
transitions.
--folks whose style involves heavily manipulating the loops themselves
rather than simply letting them cycle.


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