Re: Looper for minimal music

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

Is this for live performance, or a composition?

If you're looking to make a composition, what you're talking about
would be very easy to do with basic audio editing / multitracking
software.

I did something vaguely similar a few weeks ago. (I didn't have all
the variations play simultaneously.) I took the original recording of
"Four Organs" by Steve Reich, and remade it using time-stretch. I took
the first 2 notes and time stretched them repeatedly, to show how
that's different to how the organs are played in the original. I then
layered the notes back on the original shaker loop. The results can be
heard here: 
http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com/entry/2012-04-25T07_40_28-07_00
You have to either hear the full radio show, or fast forward to
1:43:10, where the final "Four Organs" mix begins.



Andreas Berg <berg@brainticket.de> was like:
> I would like to make some a rather experimental "kind of minimal music"
> thing with "phase shifting" and i am looking for a looper or a setting of
> different looping-devices to realise this.
> It's about recording a loop, copy it to another track and change it's 
> tempo
> or do timestretching on it to bring it out of sync to the original loop.
> The whole thing would be mainly about copying one original loop and 
> modify
> it a bit several times and let all the variations play simultaniously and
> free (unsynced and as independent tracks).
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasing)
>
> I already read a lot about all the loopers that are on the market (and 
> also
> about the legends that are "out of stock") and i think none of them is
> really suitable because it is always something missing (multi-tracking,
> timestretching, tempo control of single tracks ...).
> So another idea is to bring different loopers in chain but i actually 
> have
> no clear vision how to do that and what the best devices for that would 
> be
> as i could maybe even combine their features in this solution.
>
> I'm thankful for any advice... (maybe there is even a solution i never
> thought of like using ... instead of loopers. But it has to be a hardware
> solution - i don't want to use software)
>



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