Re: Is it Live or is it Memorex?

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Clayton Gary Lehmann wrote:

My impression is that Matthias is more about live looping and Kim was more
about loops in general, is that largely true?

I think it is safe to say that Kim was a dedicated anarchist.   I think communal organization and
movements that come from such ventures made him very uncomfortable.   He was always
very iconoclastic in his approach.   I respected him because he really seemed to walk his talk, politically
speaking.   I won't tell you that it hurt when he was verbally critical of our early attempts at creating
looping festivals and spreading them to other countries, but as time went on, I just took him less
personally.   He was also very, very generous to me as a human being in many other ways.

It's okay to agree to disagree.

So, to answer your question the best way I can (and only from my personal perspective)
I saw his resistance to the creation of a live looping movement through the creation of
live looping festivals as more of a political thing as opposed to specifically a
loops versus live looping kind of dialectic.

Does this ring true with those of you who knew him well?

Whatever the truth is.   I feel deeply indebted to Kim for the creation of this community
whether we all agree on things or not and I'm still deeply sad that his life was cut so
terribly short.

Rick