Re: What can blind and visually impaired loopers do?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

I use Mobius and practically never need to watch the screen. I totally
loop with my feet, using a MIDI foot pedalboard. If you perform
without shoes you can easily feel the kick pads with your feet and be
in total control. A pedalboard with ten buttons will give you acces to
the traditional EDP style looping (and more!) if you set it up for the
ten actions:

1. Record,
2. Overdub,
3. Multiply,
4. Substitute,
5. Speed,
6. Reverse,
7. Previous Loop,
8. Next Loop,
9. Previous Track,
10. Next Track,

> Hello! Correct me if I'm wrong,

I think you are wrong and will now correct you. Long ago a blind
keyboard player came out on this list. I don't remember his name (hey
- maybe he is reading this? Feel free to chime in if so) but he is
French and played for a while with Jon Hassell. I remember that
because I like Hassell's music very much and it turned out I actually
remembered this piano player from a concert Hassell did here in
Stockholm around 1986 (he was using a very cool "freeze reverb" effect
with his piano keyboard and I totally loved that sound).

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that my friend Lizzie and 
> I are the only blind
> loopers. I like the sound of live looping, but I don't really do it. I'm 
> on this list because I loop
> in the studio all the time, and you know what Kim said, and what Violet 
> says, about the list. But I like
> live looping, and would like to try it. I have this feeling that a loop 
> pedal is very visual, and there are a
> lot of visual cues. A JAWS screen reader may be able to understand 
> Ableton and Mobius. So,
> what do you think of blind live looping? Anything that may not be 
> visual? While you come up with an answer,
> we blind loopers, or "bloopers," will keep studio looping.
> Tyler Z
>