Re: live looping, etc.

[Dan Soltzberg <d.ans@rcn.com>]

Title: Re: live looping, etc.

I remember that Archie cartoon. Thanks for making me smile.



on 6/2/03 2:04 AM, Mark Sottilaro at sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:

> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 07:43 PM, <dennis@mail.worldserver.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > So relax, maybe we can decide what STYLE, GENRE, LOOPING, LIVE LOOPING 
> > is.
> > And tomorrow it will be different.
>
> I have a question: Why do any of you think that you can form a scene or 
> define a term?  These things happen organically over time, like any 
> element of language.  Try and invent a word.  You might get some 
> friends to use it, but it will probably take decades for it to gain any 
> widespread usage.
>
> My wife said something really insightful this evening.  She said, "how 
> can you create a scene when you don't share a common location?"  Sure, 
> we have the internet, but I think a scene that has any real momentum 
> starts when a bunch of people living in the same city or region develop 
> an art form or style and all gather together to support each other.  
> Part of a scene is that there's support, and I don't see much of that 
> here.  One SF area list member here has come to one of my shows in all 
> the years on the list (No Will, you don't count!) and it's Jon El 
> Bizri.  Most of the people who do come to my shows are people who know 
> me and/or have heard my mp3s.  I'm not complaining, I'm not here for 
> promotion.  I'm hear for the conversation, which I don't invest in 
> emotionally so when one of you disagrees with me I say, "welcome to my 
> United States of whatever."
>
> When I was 5 I had a Welch's Grape Jelly Jar that had an Archie's 
> cartoon on it.  It was Reggie playing a guitar in a totally Funkadelic 
> outfit complete with Bootsie glasses.  Distorted notes flew from the 
> guitar as the other characters stood around with their fingers in their 
> ears.  The caption read, "Reggie makes the scene."  At that point I 
> realized that you can't make a scene.  Scene's form from hard work, a 
> common interest and mutual support.  It's totally possible that 
> something does come out of all this, but typing about it isn't going to 
> make it happen any faster.  What Larry O wrote about in his article was 
> true, but artificial.  That event happens once a year.  It's cool, but 
> that scene is very transitory.  When people go home it disappears.  If 
> things like that started happening every weekend (on a smaller scale of 
> course) in SLO, or even better yet, in a bigger city like what happens 
> in Open Loop in NYC, then we might have a scene.
>
> but I'd still want to call the scene "N.E.W."
>
> Mark Sottilaro