Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V20 #10

[Torben Scharling <torbenscharling@gmail.com>]

Howdy Y'all...Still got my trusty Rang III going via Ableton Suite 10 (dang midi sync drifts...need an expert or Ableton need to get their shit together...) Got RME sound cards these days, man those things are solid pieces of gear, drivers & software :O

Recently invested in a Rang+ also, now I gotta figure out how to incorporate that into the mix/chain, but potentially nice to have a separate un-synced mono rang to like, loop the whole loop or other ideas are welcome :)

Right now in the world we have fake, paid riot movements, mandatory masks and curfews, temperature checks and cattle like indoctrination of seemingly normal people, who obey every order they get, be it from the government, their boss or the store owner..

We as independent artists need to stick together and stand up for our rights to perform, spread awareness of whatever message we have, even if it's no message, one should be free to express themselves through music, lyrics, spoken word etc. and be able to be heard, even if some (snowflakes) don't like their message.

People need to be allowed to create unique, unfiltered art, create without being told what we can and cannot create, or how close we can be to each other when we create, or otherwise live our lives - otherwise there is no longer art, there is only product, and slavery.

Btw. I'm looking for drummers, preferably who are familiar with online jamming (Ninjam - I use www.jamtaba.com these days put it on the master fx as a plugin in your favorite daw..), and playing to click, cause I plan to go live on various social bullshit media soon, and need someone to handle some of the beat duties and perhaps who can help with mixing live also, if you do live drum looping. Strictly drum playing is cool too, if you're cool with playing with and for a "solo" looping artist (I do vox, keys, guitar, bass, push 2, other, looping all original content) - or maybe you know an awesome young or old enthusiastic drummer, who needs to build up his chops or is an excellent performer, can perform in front of a camera, has the setup to do live streaming and stable internet connection.

Best Regards,

Torben Scharling

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:42 PM Ted Killian <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote:

Rick,

You and I must’ve joined LD about the same time in October of ’96.

I remember having to use a dial up modem and each page/message took about a minute to load (with lots of modem noise in the background, LOL).

Those were the days.

Cheers,

Ted


> On Jun 15, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> I remember joining somewhat soon after the List began
> (in the 2nd week of October, I will have been live looping in public for
> 25 years:  I think we had the very first monthly live looping paid gig
> at Mobo Sushi with a group we called 'Third Wave'.  My brother, Bill Walker
> (who, working as a pro musician and at Union Grove Music, got me discounts
> on the three Lexicon Jammans that was to own) and Gary Regina had
> been playing a lot of instrumental 'world music fusion'  in a group called 'Worlds Collide'
> since 1998 and we all had Jammans that were midi-ed up (why, oh why,  oh why, after
> all these years do so few manufacturers not include midi clock I/O in their loopers)
> with an inexpensive Midi Bay that I owned at the time and we just improvised
> using world musics, scales, rhythms and our own sensibility.
> Once a month we each got 50 bucks to play Mobo Sushi.   We'll be celebrating our
> 25th anniversary at Mobo this coming October if Sheltering in Place is not still going
> on)
>
> Anyway,  I was brand new to computers, the internet and I was just
> learning how to use e-mail (which seemed very confusing at the time....lol) so I joined
> L.D. , if memory serves  sometime in1996 but  only for one day.
>
> I joined and 100 emails hit my IN box and I was so overwhelmed, I unsubscribed
> (and somehow figured out how to actually do that.....lol) immediately.
>
> I ended up joining a year or two later (and please forgive me, all of this is from memory
> which is NOT my strongest suit in live so I might have the dates wrong.
>
> It became Church for me and by 1998 I was beginning to put on local
> Live Looping mini 'festivals' and it all began for me.
>
> I love this list and confess I have not been active on it for a very long time, especially
> after Dennis Moser started the L.D. at Facebook group,  which I check in with periodically.
>
> Nice to hear all the 'old timers'  telling their stories!
>
> much love and appreciation to all of you.  My world is so much bigger and better
> because of this community.  Bless Kim Flint for starting it and maintaining it for so long.
>
> Rick

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Torben Scharling