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I started looping due to my nagging urge to be able to perform my electronic music live and not just hit the play button on my laptop. FL Studio isnt intentionally designed for live performance but thanks to Equalibrum on youtube, I came across Mobius. I had no idea what live looping was at the time and didnt take it seriously. Not until a talent show at the church I go to. I procrastinated on figuring out a way to perform a song. LOTS of stress and anxiety built up. Then, late at night just before the audition day, I was just messing around in Mobius as a vst in FL Studio. I recorded a loop and then reversed it and the reversed chord progression really caught my attention so I saved it. Next day, I recorded that same chord progression and this time started to add drums, bass, lead etc. Before I knew it, I had pretty much created a song for the talent show out of anxiety. The the audition was postponed so I was excited that I got an extra 2 weeks to practice. Fastforward to the day of the talent show, LOTS of stress and anxiety going through my head. It was my very first performance and there was an audience of about 100+ coming to the talent show. I was worried that the it wouldnt sound well on the huge speakers. I ended up calling the sound guy just hours before the show asking if he needed me to bring anything (as if he didnt know what he was doing. . .) anyways to make a long story short, the performance went really well considering it was my first ever and I was a complete novice to live looping. Now that I've discovered loopers-delight I've been hooked. Sent from my iPod On Jan 9, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Ben <benoitruelle@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > Nice answers to this thread. > >> Why do you 'loop'? What got you started on this path? > > I started to loop without knowing this term with a boss dd (6?, I > think) that I borrowed from the guitarist in my band (I was playing > bass at the time in a pop/rock band). Then I discovered > loopers-delight, toyed with ambiloop then mobius and bought the mono > digitech Jamman I still use. > >> Was it a mechanism for solo performance? to record a vamp? > > A bit of everything. I've always been interested in sound, more than > "music" in fact. I own a lot of synth, FX, other instruments but > (almost) never saved a patch. I'm just enjoying the "moment" then > power off the machine and ... that's all, folks > >> >> A compositional device, a new avenue of expression? (repetition as >> compositional device?) > > A bit for composition but mainly for testing layering of textures, not > in the AABAB sense. > I tried several midi sequencers (MC-303, RM1x, softs...) but never > manager to get a good live seamless loop, the midi note on the border > beeing cut when the pattern starts again and I tend to use long notes > or notes with long long release time (the fake reverb trick). The > solution was to loop in the audio domain. > >> An 'artistic statement' in itself? as if to say "I DONT NEED NO STINKIN >> BAND!" > > I like jamming with a band, I hate rehearsing and playing the same > songs over and over. > >> A fallback for artistic roadblocks? (as in--an easy way out) > ?? >> >> A way of exploring new rhythms? > > Yes and some textures too. > >> A textural apparatus? sound design? > > Yes, both. > >> A means of 'warping sound'? > > Yes and as a tool to adjust the signal level and/or create patches on > the FX boxes behind the looper. > >> With me, it's been all of the above, and I've jumped among 7 or 8 >> devices >> along the way. >> >> How about you? > > I don't have a very good musical backgroung, I can't read a staff, I > took some piano lessons ( bored to play some "classical" pieces) , > played the bass by hear (fun), took some guitar lessons (not enough > time with the childs) but I'm more on the experimental side of music: > contrapunt, overtones, clusters, freeze, glitch, serendipity, ... you > name it. I like to read user manuals of things I don't own (synth, FX, > ...) and imagine the sound it could make (now with youtube it's easier > than before :-) but It's less fun). I like to learn in a lot of > domain, to experiment but I'm more in the category "a lot of things on > surface" than "deep on one thing" ;-) > > I'm almost 40 now, time for a crisis :-) and thinking about a new > orientation or carreer. I'm thinking of using my musical interest and > knowledge (looping as discussed earlier, generative music, ... ) in > new directions in the field of personal development ( emotion and > stress management ,sophrology, fullmindness, meditation, healing , > ...). > > Has anyone used looping in these directions or conducted meditations > sessions, improvisation groups, drum circles, ... with loopers (or > other stuff)? I would be interested in any links, books or personnal > experiences. Privately if OT. > > I will alway be thankfull to this community. It's a great resource and > I have learned a lot reading it. > > Ben. > > > > >