Re: New member.

[Luther Zevenbergen <demiurg@wanadoo.nl>]

Op vrijdag 16 april 2004 17:15, schreef Tom Rex:
> The synchronicity on this list is sometimes amazing!
>
> I decided on the spur of the moment to set up a software folder in my
> Outlook to keep track of registrations, etc.  so I did a search for Swar 
>in
> my e-mail and started to move them, when, in comes this e-mail to my 
>search
> list!
>
> So welcome to the list, Luther.  It will be interesting to follow your
> looping experience with sitar

it's nice to see there are people here doing a same type of things with 
sitar,
I just started so I might post from to time to time how it works out.

> Kris, I got into electronic music last year because of back and leg
> problems.  I used to play drums and percussion live, but it got to be too
> much.  One of the 1st software packages I got was  Swar Systems 
>(librarian,
> shala, and sampler).  I wanted to mostly improvise around the raga scales
> at different times throughout the day (and night) using mostly sitar.  I
> used it for sound mediations and therapy after I got out of a two week 
>stay
> in the hospital (due to said back and leg problems.  It worked, thank 
>God! 
> The hospital loop is one loop I don't want to get into!).  Mariano from
> Swar in Switzerland has been very helpful.
>
> Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!