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You said looping festivals were apples, and I sent you an "orange link." Tyler Z On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:02:22 -0700, Matt Davignon wrote: >Are you responding to something someone else wrote? I didn't say that >loopers >delight is only for "live looping". >Matt >On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote: >Give me the page on loopers-delight.com (NOT a mailing list archive; a >page from >Tools, Tips and Tricks, etc.) that says "This site is for live looping >only! I >repeat, >LIVE!" Where does it say that? The home page says the opposite. I >discovered >this website when >Googling tape loops, and tape loops are usually prerecorded. >Tyler Z >On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:44:10 -0700, Matt Davignon wrote: >>Hmmm, I think we need to accept that some things are different than other >>things, and that's ok. For example, if you see an apple, and you really >>like >>oranges, you could tell the apple that it has seeds, and a skin, and is >>the >>reproductive part of the plant, which makes it pretty much the same >>thing as an >>orange. However, the apple has been an apple for a while, and understands >>apple-ness pretty well. However, nothing that the apple thinks should >>prevent >>you from enjoying oranges. >>In a way that "jungle music" wasn't necessarily made in jungles, and >>experimental music isn't the result of people in lab coats following the >>scientific method, "Live Looping" for many people means a very specific >>interaction between instrument and technology - where the performer is >>both >>generating the instrumental sounds live and sampling them live. >>Yes, a DJ can can create loops in real time, but more often than not, >>the music >>itself was created by someone other than the DJ. In my experience, about >>9 out >>of 10 DJs are not composers or instrumentalists while they are DJ'ing. >>They are >>playing other people's music, and making only tiny changes to completed >>pieces >>of music to blend them together into a longer set. The value of a DJ set >>is the >>value of a curator - the DJ goes out and finds good music that you >>haven't >>heard yet and plays it. The DJs who compose are few and far between - >>the ones >>who actually create original music are even fewer and more far in >>between. >>(Those such as RJD2 often get credit for composing something when all >>they did >>was loop someone else's music and put a extra drum beat on it.) >>Sorry - got off on a tangent there. In short, many things that use loops >>are >>not "live looping". You can still like whatever you want to like. >>-- >>Matt Davignon >>mattdavignon@gmail.com >>www.ribosomemusic.com >>Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com >>On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote: >>Hello, everybody! I know it's kind of too late, but I want to post about >>the >>City Lights >>Music Festival for future reference. This year, it was yesterday and >>today. I >>was there yesterday, and I >>have recordings. Remember when I said that a Grand Rapids, Michigan loop >>fest >>would be amazing? >>Well, it's not really touted as a loop fest, but the City Lights Music >>Festival >>(touted as an >>electronic music festival) has a lot of qualities that a loop fest has. >>There's >>something many >>people don't realize; you say the biggest city in Michigan is Detroit, >>and >>that's right! But Grand >>Rapids is the SECOND biggest. It's a growing city, and we hope more >>events can >>take place >>there; maybe a real loop fest! Who knows? But the City Lights Music >>Festival >>frequently >>made use of something that is very similar to live looping. Most of the >>samples >>that the festival DJ'S >>used were prerecorded, but if the DJ'S just put on the music and left it >>alone, >>the sample would just >>play. But the DJ'S kept hitting repeat buttons on specific parts of the >>samples, making it >>"live" looping, so to speak. I don't have my recording of the CLMF >>online, but >>you can find out more about >>it here: >>http://www.citylightsmusicfestival.com >>Tyler Z >-- >Matt Davignon >mattdavignon@gmail.com >www.ribosomemusic.com >Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com