names names names - was "how to announce performances"

["David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

Matthias -

I sympathize with your desire to consolidate.  But then it's easy to
understand why people want new labels for their music, right?

I mean: Rock Music = Rock Music, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Shoegazer, BritPop,
PowerPop, New Metal, Glam Rock, Classic Rock, etc, etc...
Sure, it's all "rock music" and then so is Ska, Reggae, and (arguably) 
Disco
too.

Creative people like to break new ground and destroy old associations, and
evolving fresh sounds with new names (rhythm and blues, soul, funk, 
hip-hop,
rap, freestyle, go-go, turntabilism... etc., etc...) help remove one form 
an
"old genre" and put one in a "new genre"  (disco, industrial, techno, IDM,
electronica, breakbeat, garage, drum and bass, eurodance, house, hardcore,
etc., etc...).

Perhaps imagining that everyone will use the same terms and agree to stick
with them is a bit of a lost cause from the start.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Grob" <matthias@grob.org>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:21 AM
Subject: how to announce performances


> Louie said
> >Folks I've announced my performances as guitar loops
> >and soundscapes,live looping,painting guitar,minimal
> >guitar,guitar visions etc. and i still havent been
> >thrown in jail;-) and to tell you the truth people
> >don't seem to care too much about the terms because
> >they still cannot grasp what i am doing!
>
> thats the problem...
> as long as each one of us invents his own or several of them
> (I called my stuff Musica AguArianA :-), how could people care for
> terms and grab them?
> But once they read an article or watch a TV documentary about Live
> Looping they will react to a musician who sais that he does that.
> And as long as LD looks like it does and all members claim their own
> specific style, hardly any such press reactions can be expected.
>
> If you can put a link to some LiveLooping.com on your personal site
> and people see that you make part of a movement, they may trust more
> than when if say that you invented your completely own thing.
>
> But I may be totally wrong, I am just an engineer :-)
>
> Due to Per/Rick/me Live Looping Festival tour in Sweden, there was a
> documentary about Live Looping on national TV.
> Was there a concrete result for you, Per?
> -- 
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