re: looping other instruments...

[Andy Soto <smaug@servidor.unam.mx>]

   for me,microtonality has been the way to find new ways on the guitar,
sorry I´m not David Torn :-)


At 12:55 a.m. 17/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>i mostly play electric guitar, but since nothing new can be done
>on the guitar (right steve lawson?)<<<
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>hehe, I guess you've been listening to the interview on KPIG... :o)
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>for the record, I didn't say NOTHING can be done new on guitar, just that
>for bass, especially exploring the whole area of solo bass, there is 
>little
>or no set vocabulary, so the playing field is more open. All credit to 
>guys
>like Andre LaFosse who manage to take the guitar somewhere very new -
>Andre's music seems to hardly lean at all on the standard guitar vocab, 
>even
>when he was playing with just a guitar into EDP into amp - no reliance on
>heavy processing. I really don't have that kind of musical vision, or
>leaning, so am in awe of people who do. For me, it seems that few people
>have pursued bass along the path that I'm heading (with a few obvious and
>notable exceptions - i'm not claiming any degree of trail blazing
>originality...) so I have fewer cliches to either avoid or subvert. I feel
>like i'm playing with sound on a much more base level. it doesn't feel 
>like
>i'm manipulating pre-ordained sounds.
>
>I'd love to hear the take of some of the guitarists on list - DT, clearly 
>as
>far as experimental guitar, you wrote a large chunk of the first chapter -
>do you feel that it gets harder to say something 'new', or is 'newness'
>overrated when it's placed ahead of relavence and integrity? does the 
>onward
>march of technology mean that we will always have new things to do, cos we
>are physically able to DO more TO sound?
>
>am i making sense? as usual, probably not - someone verbose, rescue me! 
>:o)
>
>Steve 
>www.steve-lawson.co.uk
>
>BTW - there's currently a little discussion brewing about free improv that
>some of you may find interesting in my 'ask the pros' forum over at
>talkbass.com - feel free to sign in and contribute - you'll find it in the
>'ask Steve Lawson' section under bass guitar forums...
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