Re: Training video?

[Andre LaFosse <altruist@earthlink.net>]

Hey there David (welcome back!),

For folks in general, here's the latest run-down on the EDP Video Plan,
at least as far as I've been pursuing it:

The basic idea at this point is to do a "bread and butter" EDP tutorial,
which would probably be about an hour long (give or take).  It would
cover the main "front panel" functions and their different permutations, 
as well as a few "large scale" parameters (quantization, insertmodes, 
etc.) relevant to those main functions.  

This should be complemented by brief musical "pointers" into
different ways the EDP can be used (i.e. live backing chords/vamps for
soloing over, ambient soundscapes, glitchy IDM, etc.) so that people
could not only get a sense of what the "bread and butter" functions of
the unit are, but how they might be able to apply those functions in
actual musical situations.  This would all be relevant to and current
for the EDP Plus and/or the LoopIV upgrade.

The idea here is to offer this, at least in large part, free of charge,
either as online streams or in conjunction with new EDP's or LoopIV
upgrades.  The main point of such a vid would be to get a good, basic
understanding of the main architectural points of the EDP disseminated
into the looping (and non-looping) world at large, and hopefully promote
a good general understanding of just what all that "crazy Martian
language" is actually about.

A more advanced video, covering "deeper" and more complex
function/parameter combinations, might well be put together down the
road.  The main priority right now is getting a general overview video
assembled.  Part of what I'm going to be doing during my Bay Area
mini-tour in August is (trying to) film just such a thing.

There's quite a bit of additional footage floating around - Loopstock,
the LoopIV release party with Matthias and myself (and Kim!) doing some
playing solo and duo (and me adding stuff into one of Kim's loops... not
sure what you call that approach - tag-team glitch?), the Santa Cruz 
stuff, etc.  Not sure how any of that might be disseminated yet, as it 
involves so many different people (and so many hours of stuff to sift 
through)...

If anybody's got specific requests for things they want to see
documented in a tutorial, drop a line and I'll see if it's something
that could be worked in.

Awreet,

--Andre LaFosse
http://www.altruistmusic.com