Re: Why...?

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

For me, I originally started looping because I wanted to take non-musical sounds (clips of speech, found objects, etc) and make them musical through repetition. 

Now I mostly loop because: 
--I want to be able to play solo, and I lack the motor skills to be an interesting non-looped solo musician. 
--Somehow, having a series of musical actions happening without my direct interference allows me to spend more time making individual sounds more interesting. For example, instead of needing to come up with melody, I simply layer 3 different notes playing at different time intervals, and voila - a melody was created when I was thinking only about timbre!
--I like the concept of solo performers - it gives you a chance to get to hear a person without having their musical persona watered down by the give-and-take that comes with being in a band. Bands are good too - but sometimes you want to know about the individual. 


-- 
Matt Davignon
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM, william middlemiss <billymiddlemiss@gmail.com> wrote:

Why do you 'loop'? What got you started on this path?

Was it a mechanism for solo performance? to record a vamp?

A compositional device, a new avenue of _expression_? (repetition as compositional device?)

An 'artistic statement' in itself? as if to say "I DONT NEED NO STINKIN BAND!"

A fallback for artistic roadblocks? (as in--an easy way out)

A way of exploring new rhythms?

A textural apparatus? sound design?

A means of 'warping sound'?

With me, it's been all of the above, and I've jumped among 7 or 8 devices along the way.

How about you?