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Re: livelooping. Ambient.



Sorry Andy,

I didn't mean to injure feelings.

I only meant to point out something I seem to see happening with the conversation.

I am not asserting that an identifyable "polka" musician (per se) wold want this sort of categorization.

But one can easily imagine an eclectic multi-stylist who uses live-loping to perform a set of music that could easily contain a variety of things...a blues, a country tune, a pop ballad, a rock anthem, and a Reggae cover, and a short piece of classical music...all using the same simple pedal.

I have seen such (or something very close).

What would be wrong for **that** sort of performer to call him or herself a "live-looper?"

His or her "styles" are too ecclectic and too many, but the common thread is solo live-looping.

Sure, there are a lot of us who do amorphous, ambienty, jimmy-jammy, wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey, odd-ball music because looping divices **can** exert a sort of heavy influence in that particular direction (when we let them).

I tend to be more like that than not myself, truth to tell.

But I admire those who impose enough "will" on these devices to make them do other things -- if that's what they have a mind to do.

It sort of irks me a little to see the possibility of potentially setting up exclusionary parameters on who is a live-looping musician or what is live-looping music.

All this attempt to be "correct" about our terms actually (to me at least) seems somehow wrong.

I will submerge back into my shell now.

I seem to have spoken out of turn and have perhaps caused more harm than good.

Onward and downward.

Cheers,

Ted

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM, andy butler wrote:

hi Ted,

that's a bit harsh, and actually rather hurtful.


A small minority has been using the term 'livelooping'
to describe their music for several years now,
and not tried to impose notions of 'legitimacy'
on anyone.


Why on earth would a Polka player with a
loop device want to refer to their music as "livelooping"?
I honestly don't believe they would, they already have a perfect and informative label
to use...............'Polka'.

...but let's say they did, do you really
think there's anyone going to insist they
aren't 'legitimate' to do that?



The monsters you imagine simply don't exist.



andy




tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote:
Hmmmm,

Sounds like we might be a little on our way to perhaps defining "live-looping" as a particular "style" of music a little too much for my taste.

Next stop, bring on the live-looping "nazis" -- y'all better make sure your live-looping musical cred isn't tainted with any other mongrel musical form bloodlines . . . eh?

Is one looper's music less (or more) legitimately "live-looping" music than another's because it might be a blues . . . or pop song cover . . . or a polka?

If such a thought were (or had ever been) a part of this community I would not have stuck around for 16 years.

If it ever gets to that point, I'd feel ashamed to have been a part of it for so long.

Just my 2 cents.

If the criteria for a particular piece of music being somehow more legitimate as "live-looping" music is a consideration of whether or not it could have existed in any other way or form or category . . . and that its existance and form was especially and neccessarily dictated and dependent on a pirece of hardware instead of a musician's mind, then we've already crossed some sort of line somewhere methinks.

Think very carefully about what you are saying.

These ideas could have implications you don't intend.

Best,

Ted

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:02 AM, andy butler wrote:

essentially yes....need to work on the definition.

With livelooping the form can take on unique features
which take the music out of any regular genre classification.

"any musician who owns a looping device" is likely to produce music where the effect of the looping device is secondary to other considerations of musical classification.

The 12 bar blues is loopable, but you wouldn't want to call
it livelooping.

Let's have another go.......

Music in which the sounds are the result of an interaction
between a musician and an instrument, while the form is uniquely the
result of the interaction of a musician with a looping device.

andy