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Last night I threw a pebble into the pond and look at all the pretty ripples it made, but these, the ripples, are not the essence of the pebble... smiles, Corynne At 09:58 AM 2/19/98 -0600, you wrote: >Come to think of it, not everything that is called a loop is in fact a >loop. Just a linear string of events, whether they are notes, heartbeats, >or whatever. If it has a beginning and an end then it isn't a loop..... >Pseudo Loopers Delight? >Linear Events Delight? >Just popping more bubbles. > > > > >>Yo Pat, >> >>Come round to my place and I'll hook you up to a 12-lead EKG... You can >see >>for yourself just how much a heartbeat resembles a loop. It is a little >>ostinato comprised of five segments that repeat over and over and over, >yet >>are dynamic. It even mirrors your emotional state--it builds up when >>you're excited, slows down when you're at peace, changes shape when >you're >>sick. >> >>And yeah, there is a finite number of beats. Every story--be it a life, >or >>a loop--has a beginning and an ending. >> >>If I could make loops like that, I'd be God. A heartbeat, indeed, is a >>loop. :-) >> >>Scott >>---------- >>> From: Pat Murphy <pmurphy@gibson.com> >>> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >>> Subject: Re: looping and "normal music" >>> Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 06:52 >>> >>> >A heart beat is a loop... >>> >>> >>> Not really.... >>> It has a starting point and ending point and when everything is said >and >>> done, there will be a finite number of beats... >>> >>> Oh well,as poetic as it is, I'm sorry to be the one that has to pop the >>> bubble ;) >> >> >> > > >