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At 3:14 PM -0700 4/13/04, loop.pool wrote: >"Live Looping" was used as the only common denominator that a bunch >of diverse musicians...used and, at the same time, was a catchy >term that I could get journalists and radio DJs into. It worked, so >I kept using it. >One of my production heroes, the late and controversial Bill Graham, >in his early years tried specifically to mix up the musical styles >on a bill because he thought that young people were too narrow and >uneducated in their tastes in music. He purposefully would put >Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix >on the same bill, self conciously trying to turn each other's fans >onto each other. > >When I first started doing these small non-profit concerts, I was >personally delighted that a specifically titled Bass Looping >Festival would have acts as diverse as the ambience of a Scott >Khunga Drengsen to the however you could categorize Steve Lawson's >beautiful music to me banging away on a prepared bass with martini >skewers......lol. > >So my intentions were twofold >1) Use the catchiest term I could that was both short and also >described the common denominator of a performance with divergent >musical styles. >2) Intentionally start to educate the people in my community about >this mode of technological creation of music that I so loved and >believed in: looping. > >So I have never intended to make the term 'Live Looping" a brand. >It was merely a commonality. Well said! -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com