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for myself, i do a combination of both: precomposed pieces and improv. i guess it's like structured improv really. generally i have a pre-concieved aesthetic in my mind and a few coordinated 'bits' i've figured out in advance. if i'm well-rehearsed and relaxed the 'bits' play a smaller part in the performance, the rest is serendipity. if i'm not well-rehearsed and relaxed, the performance is all about the 'bits' (and usually not as interesting or musical - like my pathetic y2k2 performance!). i think of it kind of like jazz musicians and scales. if a jazz player isn't 'feeling it' they can fall back on the scale. at the same time, those scales are the potential building blocks of a great improv. a note about 'well-rehearsed'. this refers to the equipment as much as playing my instrument. for example, i've been playing the cello for so long that it's is transparent, and just a translation device for the music in my head. i put my fingers down on the strings without thinking about where they're going or what they're doing. the more i practice with the looping gear-midi controller, i've noticed it starts to become transparent too, so i can be more musical. i just hope it doesn't take as long as cello (i.e. 22 years). 'glitch' compositions usually end up being my favorite pieces. i've spent a lot of time recently trying to recreate glitches i liked in the past. but i'm finding it really hard. the result has been a bit forced-souding and i'm thinking that 'practicing glitches' might be an oxymoron. > From: Louie Angulo <laab2000us@yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 02:03:59 -0700 (PDT) > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Live Loop composing > Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Resent-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 05:04:05 -0400 > > Hi Andy, > This is very interesting and i have been meaning to > ask this question not only to you but most loopers > here; do you go with preconceived musical ideas before > you do a gig or do you start improvising with > preconcieved techniques?Are there glitch compositions > which you can recreate live? I would imagine this a > hard task since like you mention on your web page > sometimes you don?t know which buttons you pressed:-) > Louie > > > > --- Andre LaFosse <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Hi Louie, >> >> Louie Angulo wrote: >> >>> can you really do this live??? >> >> The whole track, no - this is one of three >> "produced" tracks on the >> album, where I took a live EDP solo and then treated >> it like a rhythm >> section foundation track. So all of the other >> melodies and sounds on >> "Interference" were written and recorded after the >> fact. But the >> original EDP track (the gurgling sputtering metallic >> dancehall thing, >> which is panned dead center in the mix) is about 95% >> live on this tune - >> just a small bit of editing after the fact, to give >> it a bit of >> structure. >> >> Once the album's out, I'll probably post files of >> the original, unedited >> live EDP solos that were the basis for the produced >> tracks, so you can >> hear the difference. >> >> And not to worry, Geoff Smith, I'm only releasing >> the two tracks I've >> already posted, as teasers for the full album. The >> CD will be about 73 >> minutes long, so even after the two tracks I've made >> available for >> download, there's still an hour's worth of music >> that's only available >> (or soon to be available) on the CD. But thanks for >> your concern for my >> financial well-being! ;) >> >> --Andre LaFosse >> The Echoplex Analysis Pages: >> http://www.altruistmusic.com/EDP >> > > > ===== > www.labalou.com > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com >