Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V01 #563

["Dennis Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

Good thoughts, Jan.

Personally, I've been writing TOO much software lately!  Though it is 
looper
software, it is not looper music.  This leads to a kind of creative musical
constipation.  Painful condition.  Soon, I will not be able to hold back 
and
it will fly out!  Watch out!  Stand back!

I believe we are not computers, also.  Most creative people I know think of
themselves as a conduit.  For me, I certainly feel that the music comes 
from
outside of me.  Speaking very personally, it is a form of worship for me.
Perhaps the techniques, cliches, and riffs that we play serve as rituals,
meaningless in themselves and effective only as they bring us to "the
place."  We must learn to discard them as necessary or look at them with 
new
eyes.

Dennis Leas
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dennis@mdbs.com