RE: non musical looping

["Paul Weissman" <paul-mailinglists@nioterra.com>]

this may be more than obvious, but the software you're using to write email
and the os you're working are loops, or at least, makes use of loops.  all
software contains loops.  right now, as you read this, your processor is
being fed NOOPs, an instruction that says 'do nothing', over and over 
again.
xp just blue screened on me saying that my video driver got caught in an
infinite loop.  ;)

AC electricity is a loop.  in the US, 60 times a second, all your power
outlets cycle negative, positive.

in math, division is often an infinite loop.  1/9=.11111...,
1/11=.09090909..., 1/7=.142857142857142857..., etc.  integration is 
infinite
instantaneous looped sampling.

jump rope is a loop.

the eart spins and orbits in a loop.

any musical tone is a looped compression and rarefaction of air.

ecology has lots of loops.

it is probably safe to say that without loops, there would be no stability
in life, only unpredictable chaos.  anything predictable is also 
repeatable.
therefore, predictability is a form of loop.  interesting!


paul

> nothing's gonna beat "land of the lost"
> a whole season of high quality looping.
> "daddy, daddy, nooooooooooo..."

i laughed so hard when i read this, btw... ;)