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Hi all, I love this post! Why are we drawn to looping? Could it be that humans are natural loopers? We repeat ourselves many times when we are young before we learn the forward path. The Earth loops daily, plus it loops yearly, a loop inside a loop! All the planets loop. Could it be that the nature of the universe is to loop to sustain itself? It seems there are loops all around me. Sometimes I feel that I am treading the same territory over and over only making small altercations to my daily loop. I wish I could come to the loopfest and meet all the loopers and exchange ideas. For now I am content working on a new sound and approach to my music using the looping tools. I hope someday to come to a loopfest and maybe even have a loopfest here in West Virginia! I wish everyone at the loopfest well and congrats to Hans for organizing! Good Luck all! Weg From: Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: a new kind of meeting Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [207.228.238.9] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBE47C077006C40043260CFE4EE090FAF0; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:54 -0800 Received: (from looper@localhost)by hemlock.violacea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA22748;Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:22:36 -0500 >From Loopers-Delight-request@loopers-delight.com Thu, 28 Feb 2002 >10:23:55 -0800 Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:22:36 -0500 Old-Return-Path: <matthias@grob.org> X-Sender: matthiasgrob@pop3.uol.com.br Message-Id: <p05100304b8a293b9e068@[200.227.112.127]> Resent-Message-ID: <beNATB.A.XjF.sVnf8@hemlock.violacea.com> Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com X-Mailing-List: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> archive/latest/16913 X-Loop: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: Loopers-Delight-request@loopers-delight.com I am flying over the wast snowy US, full of expectations for new experiences. I have only been twice to US for a longer time: A raft trip down the Missisipy and hippy car travel to SF in '81 A month at Gibson lab in '93 to update the LOOP delay to the Echoplex (thats when I met Kim). This time will be much different again, since I have the guitar with me. ... and I let the thoughts come: There have been congresses about any kind of subject, where information is exchanged through speach and text. There have been religious meetings to celebrate rituals of all kinds. There have been concerts, festivals, where fans of some style apreciated it together. There have been workshops, where practical knowedge has been tought in more or less free froms. But have you heard of a meeting of users of a new technology or style? Did the saxophone players meet in the 40ies to show the whide application of it to each other? Or the sythesizer players in the 60/70ies? Or have you heard that musicians of some style met in a bigger number in a organized way to exchange their music and tricks? What is it that looping has to call for such meetings? Its not just now that it started. I dont know about the history, please complete here. I had that vision from the very start and on the first flyer about the LOOP delay I suggested the foundation of: "LOOPGROOP, Forum for Loopology and repetitive happenings". In '95, I started the first project to exchange tapes, which was not a success (since I was too far away and I am not a talent in organizing such things) but the tapes sent in ended up on the first Loopers-Delight CD. Only Kim and the internet made the exchange possible, and if you read back the first postings to LD, you dont see "nice that there is a place now where I can ask how to connect my equipment" but: ....... Then more CDs, the CT project, Loop festivals kept naturally happening, iniciated by many different people. So its not like a religion that starts due to the inspiration of a guru, but due to the "thing" that makes us invest time and efforts into a comunity. Its as if we did believe in something that grows. Sure the Rastas believe in Reggae, but first of all they believe in Jah, so its not the music that makes them meet. Country music has some background with cows and hats and trucks that I dont understand much about, but is definitally a lifestyle. Similar observations can be made about all musical styles, but not about looping, so far, or could you? Even newer styles like techno, that also started as an anarchistic movement have a distict beat and sound (and drug ;-), which is not the case at all for the loopers comunity. So I am wondering more and more what the "thing" in looping is. Do you believe in loops? Sounds silly. Do you believe in the Echoplex? Sounds even more silly. Do you believe in Reilly, Fripp, Glass,,, Some may do so, but since those idols sound very different, its not what makes the meetings happen. Are there leaders to the group? There are always people that have thought and experienced more than others, so we listen better to what Richard Z, DT, Kim, sais, but if anyone of those would ask you to do a certain thing, you would laugh out loud, so they have no power, the whole movement is anarchistic! Maybe its about improvising. Looping definitally gives a new dimension to it. Gary Hall got me from the air port and said more or less: "Its an approach to composition based on interaction between the musician and the processing." We may have disussed it enough. There is no need for a conclusion, we just do what we feel is right and enjoy and learn and grow... I just wanted to say that I am extremely exited about beeing here! :-) See you soon! Matthias -- ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com