Re: the meaning of loop music

[Kelly Coyle <kellycoyle@earthlink.net>]

Well, some people more play their loopers, and some people more play their instruments (and some both, obviously). But I don't think "loop music" and "jazz music" are the same type of terms. "Loop music" and "guitar music" are, though: both describe the tools used to make it as opposed to what it sounds like.






--On Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:30 AM -0700 Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's the nature of semantics. As music evolves due
> to changing tastes and new technology, we look for
> labels to distinguish it from what came before. I
> don't believe that, for example, the label "jazz"
> describes one type of music, and we've seen how many,
> many types of music are lumped together as
> "classical". So a term like "loop music" is going to
> be even more ambiguous since it really doesn't attempt
> to describe the music per se, but refers to the
> equipment used to produce it, and within this
> artificial category, musicians vary widely as to how
> integral the looping gear really is, as was noted in
> the Frisell thread last week.
> 
> As an analogy, players of many different styles
> (country, rock, techno, pop, etc.) have been known to
> use distortion pedals, but it doesn't cause them to be
> grouped together as "fuzz box music".
> 
> -t-
> 
> --- Louie Angulo <laab2000us@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I find it still hard to understand the term loop
>> music
>> really, does it make me a looper when i lay 4 tracks
>> bass, drums, organ and rhythm guitar bulid a piece
>> and
>> solo on top of it, or does it have to be something
>> that continually evolves within a loop frame like
>> AndrÈ does...
>> .....Does this means that
>> when it starts to be arranged in the typical western
>> way it isn¥t loop music anymore?
> 
> 
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