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Defining loopers

I am sure my definition is not the best ,but when i
say a world percussionist who create live loops is
coming to town in july has been until now clearly
understood and worked to get attention.At first i said
 a "percussionist looper"  and it wasn´t clearly
understood.
Now if i had describe Rick as a green hair
percussionist coming who plays with himeself wouldn´t
be fair either,would it?
Just kidding brother:-)
Louie


> It's interesting that in the visual arts it's quite
> common to tell 
> someone that you're going to a "sculpture" show or
> "photography" show, 
> without telling anything about the style of the work
> that's being 
> shown.  Of course, if you're talking to artists,
> you'll probably have 
> to give more information than if you weren't.  Since
> we're musicians, 
> it's probably the same thing... other than the fact
> that saying 
> "looper" won't make too much sense to most people.
> 
> When asked what kind of music I do I say,
> "instrumental hip-hop 
> influenced electronica where I'm kind of like a DJ,
> except I'm 
> performing the sound instead of using a CD or vinyl
> record."  People 
> seem to nod knowingly, but who knows?
> 
> Mark Sottilaro
> 
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:19  AM, Matthias
> Grob wrote:
> 
> >
> > While "american" is of the type "nationality", we
> dont quite know of 
> > what type live looping is, since it may not be a
> style. Geoff claims 
> > its a genre, others called it an artform... but of
> what type is 
> > "rastaman"? Religion? Nationality? Yet everyone
> pictures him...
> > So what I learned here, mainly from Rick, is that
> we better start to 
> > use a term, even though we dont know its type.
> >
> > What matters is that the world gets an ida about
> what LiveLooping is 
> > about. And for this, its usefull that we use the
> same term when we use 
> > the technical process as defined pretty exactly by
> now, so with time 
> > everyone get a feeling for what can come out of
> it.
> 


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