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I usually give it a funny twist with saying, and confessing about, "well its a technique for us lazy bummers, that allow us to play a thing just ONCE, we don't have to stay that busy with our hands, and then recycle it, just like trash, garbage...it comes back..." and then after a while raising my hands in the air (demonstrating it) saying: "Hey, look and listen!... no hands...!" Most people, even senior citizens, do know what a tape recorder or natural echo (yelling in Grand Canyon) was/is, and you can elaborate it from there...well they even now what an old vinyl record was...just tell them the mean way:" It's just like an old record that's stuck!" /mats -----Original Message----- From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@annihilist.com] Sent: den 25 februari 2000 19:27 To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Describing looping to others be careful that you're not describing the style of music, rather than a technique used in creating it! As soon as you start talking about "sound paintings" and such, to me you are just describing a sort of ambient music where looping is used, but you're not really giving a description of looping. You could just as easily use looping for industrial metal or bluegrass or modern barber shop quartet or world techno or whatever. I usually say that looping is just a musical technique of sampling and manipulating audio data in real time. If they have more questions, I explain more about the technique, putting it into the context of whatever type of music they like. That works great! kim >How about the audio equivalent of an ESCHER painting? >Ya know, those stairs, figures that is perspectively screwed so they go >upstairs as >well as downstairs(!) and left and right at the same time as they go round >in a square building and so on...tricks the eye... >Objects in a picture that ends nowhere, but yet, turn its back on itself! > >What about... >Sonic Fractals? > >...ok then... not for Joe Bob or Granny perhaps ...:-) >/mats > >-----Original Message----- >From: PJBMHB@aol.com [mailto:PJBMHB@aol.com] >Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:05 PM >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Subject: Re: Describing looping to others > > >my wife describes my looping as either, "pretty" or "ugly". not sure that >helps. =-) PJ ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ |