Re: LOOPING a DRY CLEANING SHOP

[Art Simon <simart@gmail.com>]

Martha Stewart! Now that would have been cool!

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Fascinating video clip of
> Diego Stocco recording and using looping
> in a Dry Cleaning shop.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2011/09/22/musician-plays-a-dry-cleaning-shop-as-instrument.html
>
> It becomes pretty obvious half way through that
> he didn't do this in real time,   but
> he certainly could have done so
> (with an LP-1 and an Electric Repeater)
> or perhaps   Mobius and Ableton's live.
>
> He's definitely pitch shifting sounds for his
> 'melodies' and they are being stretched appropriately
> in a way that only the Repeater and Live can do
> (to my knowledge at least).
>
> Still,  quite cool and fascinating.
>
> Parenthetically,  I was talking with the producers from the
> Martha Stewart show about going in to a K-Mart
> and looping only her brand of toiletry items with cameras
> rolling (one of her brass wastebaskets is still one of the
> most sophisticated  found percussion instruments I've ever
> discovered) right when she got busted and went to jail.
> It never happened but I had already built a battery powered
> live looping rig to accomplish it.
>
> Rick Walker
>
>
>



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