RE: My first looping performance

[Paolo Valladolid <paolovalladolid@yahoo.com>]

Daniel, congrats on your first looping performance.

Even though I've had a DL-4 delay pedal for a few
years now, my first public looping performance was
actually on my Apple iBook, running Numerology and
FM7.  I believe I'm one of the 1 out of 10. ;)

I got turned on to Numerology by Mark S's posts on
this list.  This first performance was mostly
improvised.  The only prep work I did was select one
of the example patches that came with Numerology,
rearrange some of the notes in the Control Sequencer
module, and reroute the MIDI output to FM7.  I treated
Numerology as an instrument on which to improvise - I
messed around with the Gate Sequencer sliders, the
Dual LFO module settings, clock division settings,
tempo settings, etc. while it cycled over and over
through its sequencer modules.  The audience reacted
with laughter.  I found out later it wasn't because I
took the sequencers through a wide range of tempi,
beat divisions, etc. or I was using a 16-tone just
intonation tuning, but because there was a video
running behind me of little kids chasing each other.

Paolo

--- Gary Lehmann <hqr@cox.net> wrote:
> ---->Congrats on making the plunge, it get easier .
> . .
> Performance requires a certain detachment from the
> gear--the RC-20 makes it
> easier in some ways, harder in others (no feedback,
> no undo--that coulda
> helped).
> As far as backing track, here's what I think--these
> ARE BACKING TRACKS,
> albeit extra material generated spontaneously.  It's
> infintely interesting
> to the player since it echoes the moment, our task
> is to make it so for the
> listener.
> Now, there are some for whom the delay looping is
> not a "bed"--Andre La
> Fosse comes to mind--I'm sure you've heard of him,
> he was nice enough to
> email me back saying give a holler next time I'm in
> the greater LA area, and
> I told him to let me know about his LA
> appearances--but I imagine 9 out of
> 10 loopers are accumulating that time lag to solo
> over.  Opinions?
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Daniel Mayfield wrote:
> 
> Just thought I'd share with all my first looping
> performance last night, we
> were having a jam night down the local pub and I
> though hey if I can't
> experiment here then were can I?  I used my RC-20
> inputting violin into one
> track and guitar into another...Played one bum note
> on the guitar but
> overdubbed enough so it couldn't really be heard,
> god those wrong notes just
> keep coming around and around and around...
> Then once I had the guitars playing I layered the
> violins over it, people in
> my small town hadn't ever seen anything like it,
> some though I was using
> backing tracks!
> Well I got a real buzz from it and shall work on a
> set, looping is such fun
> as I'm sure all you lot know, well thankyou for
> letting me waffle to you all
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 



        
                
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