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Looping Technique When my loops start sounding the same, I turn the wet/dry mix control to full dry. Then I play very sparsely for a minute or two. Then I stop recording, unplug my guitar, turn the mix control up just enough so that it's barely audible and go upstairs, closing the basement door behind me. Then I try to forget what I played and ignore the sound coming from my rig. The floor and door filter out the highs and force me to mentally fill in what I can't hear. I let this go on for a few hours, especially if my kids and wife don't complain. It usually gives me some new ideas. Top 10 List 1. The Police (live) 2. Paul Motian Trio (live in Japan) 3. Duran Duran's Greatest Hits (don't laugh) 4. Suicide 5. The Planet Radio Station in Detroit - I haven't listened to commercial radio (except for the news) since 1990. This station plays alternative rock from the 90s and 80s. I find it very strange and empty. Especially considering that my usual points of reference are Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, David Torn, Crimson, etc. But, it's fun to listen to, anyway. 6. Larry Young (Hammond organ trio recorded in 1961) Mark Kata Mark@asisoftware.com ---------- From: Kim Flint[SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 1997 2:27 PM To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: On being complete nerds once again, Looper's Delight is pushing the geek-o-meter way into the red. Now I certainly deserve some of the blame, but even I reach my limits with endless babbling about this and that feature about whatever the latest gadget is. Now I know you're all capable of much more enlightened conversation, so let's have it! 1. How about this: What are the approaches you take improvisationally / compositionally in creating and building a loop? Is there a structure to it all? And leave the gear specifics out! 2. Top 10 lists are lame, I know. But I am really fascinated by the way this list brings together people with quite different musical backgrounds and styles. We're using similar techniques to create totally different kinds of music. Rather than babbling about which delay pedal we use, I'd like to hear more about the diversity of styles and interests that we are all pursuing. I think there is a lot to learn from people doing things that are different from what we do, yet somehow still similar; it opens up new ideas to bring back to our own music. One cheap and easy way to get a picture of musical interests is current listening habits, so toss in a list of the cds/tapes/tracks, whatever that you're listening to! For me, the stuff I'm listening to is always the stuff I've recently bought, because my attention span is only a few seconds long and I get bored with stuff very fast. A few things will hang around longer, that usually means I really like it. Anyway, in no order, here's some interesting music I've listened to lately, with no commentary since I don't have that much time: Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst Paul D. Miller - Viral Sonata (that's the guy who's aka dj spooky doing an ambient album) Meat Beat Manifesto - subliminal sandwich dj krush - Meiso Grooverider Presents: The Prototype Years Photek - Modus Operandi Metalheadz - Platinum Breakz Squarepusher - hard normal daddy dj dara - rinsimus maximus Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante voivod - nothing face Miles Davis - 4+More (miles, george coleman, ron carter, herbie hancock, tony williams, tony was only 18, and it just rips....) suicidal tendancies - the art of rebellion (good punk metal nostalgia kick...) Tom Rupolo - Loop 7 (tom is just a guy on the list who sent me a tape, nice loungy trip-hop something, dripping with fender rhodes...) anyway, comment freely.... kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com