The "DT and RF" approach to looping

["Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D." <pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk>]

Last week someone mentioned the "David Torn/Robert Fripp" approach to 
looping.
David pointed out that he didn't actually share an approach to looping with
RF and I see his point; on the other hand when people have in the past (and
many have) referred to the "DT/RF" approach I've generally understood what
they meant.

So, to in some way explain what I think we mean when we use the phrase (and
to perhaps undo some offence), I think I've taken the DT/RF approach to 
mean:

Take one adventurous improviser;
Plug into mondo FX;
plug them into a Looper;
plug that into more mondo FX.

As opposed to the "Bill Frizzell" approach (which started the debate) which
is:

Take one adventurous improviser;
plug into a looper.

Does this make sense?

Michael


 Dr. Michael P. Hughes, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK G12 8QQ 
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