Re: spatial looping, rhythmic looping

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

rick walker wrote:

> ..It is actually hard to get musicians to discipline themselves to 
>playing only one note
> and
> being content to being one cog in the musical machine.  Ironically, this 
>works best with
> non-musicians at a party...

not too surprising :-)

> ..each took one metric place in it and played our respective
> notes with a zory (rubberized beach thong) as we walked in a circle 
>around a hung stereo
> condenser mike.   In this way, the resultant looping bass line literally 
>plays in a circle
> around your head if you listen to it on headphones:  rhythmically looped 
>and spatially
> looped!!!  It sounds very cool and would work as long as you have a 
>direction sound source
> as you walk in a circle around the mic.

cool (and no messy shoes!)...

> ...A cool experiment that I tried involved taking three
> persussion .wav files that had ambient tails and playing them each 
>simultaneously in three
> opened windows media files.   Because they each have random lengths they 
>cycle in and out
> of each other.    I started playing them whilst recording it all into 
>Sound Forge.   When
> all three sounds coincide I stop the recording. (it took about 20 
>seconds, all tolled) I
> then edited out the last combination of the three timbres playing 
>simultanesouly and
> copied it a bunch of times and then  programmed it as
> a coherent rhythm.  Putting it all together, you have a completely 
>random rhythmic thing
> that suddenly turns into  a looped ostinato pattern...

i'd love to hear this. is it on your cd?

question: were the non-musicians at your party able to keep time in 7/4? i 
think most people
are more capable than we generally give them credit for being (or they 
give themselves credit
for being; there was a time in our lives when these distinctions didn't 
exist and all of us
were musicians, artists, poets, etc. only some have left it behind for 
other things...)

lance g.