Re: Please lets all sit together now and define what we do!

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

CQ:
>   We, ourselves, have apparently named this type of music "Looping."  A
>name usually has in it, the definition of what it names.  Would Looping 
>not
>simply be music which uses loops as a common thread throughout, as a
>prevalent element or relative focal point of the music?

I thought that too, until recently. Now the majority of musicians 
that use loops (like drum loops in ProTools production, for example) 
call what they do looping, at the moment when they establish that 
loop, but not any more in the end, not the whole product, not their 
art form, see what I mean?
So how do we "exclude" all the "purely tecnical looping" from our 
thing, which is going deeper?
The most obvious is that we do "real time looping". Then again quite 
some members here do use non real time loops and still feel part of 
this family and we certainly dont want to exclude them...

The painfull about a definition is that it has to fit the real world, 
and that its about impossible to achieve it without some 
distortion/abstraction of what there is...

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