RE: Andre comes back to the old question...

["Tom Rex" <tomrex1@cox.net>]

Words are social constructs, and they mean what we want them to mean,
usually by some sort of agreement, and usually for the sake of
communication.  But that in no way means there is only one meaning :)

Maybe, like the subject "Andre comes back..." implies, the question we need
to ask our list (our selves) again and again, sort of like looping, is 
"What
does looping mean to you?  Here's what it means to me." And then, like the
Sufi story of the blind folded people and the elephant, stand back and
listen to the different descriptions of something that may be too big for
any one of us to describe.

I've been trying to understand looping for years, ever since I first read
"Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music" by Barry Schrader, a book many of
us probably have read.

Over those years, whenever, I heard or saw anything pertaining to looping, 
I
checked it out.  That's how I got on this list.  And since I wanted to
"understand" looping, I needed to "stand under" some Masters.  And Masters
many of you are, and I bow to you, in respect to all you've been teaching
me!

But I still don't understand looping!  Maybe I'm slow, since I started
playing drums in high school in the fifties, and I'm just getting around to
looping, but for me, it's a process of discovery.

Like, do I use software, or hardware?  Do I need to be connected to a
looping device, like the Repeater or the Line 6 DL4, for example?  Are 
those
any different than using the delay effects that's already in the Fantom-S,
which also does loop recording?  And so on...  

So many technical issues, that seem to be a part of the musical path many 
of
us have chosen!

Oh well, if you're tired of all of this, try discussing with an evangelical
fundamentalist what a Christian is, and do you need to be re-baptized by
submersion, and do you need to be dunked once, or three times.  You'll
really get you self into a loop if you go there!

Cheers,
Tom