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Great job, Bernhard. I like the layered textures you create in the beginning, which you use as a foundation for your guitar melody/solo work. It is also refreshing, from my own subjective perspective, to hear loopers "play" their instruments and add musical identity to their works, rather than producing only ambient backdrops. This really illustrates the power of looping technology. I believe songs need a signature of some sort, and chords and sound effects don't always accomplish this for me. Creative use of melody and harmony to me demonstrates that a performer is comfortable with his instrument as a tool of emotive expression, and with the activity of creating music as art vs. craft. I like to make analogies between loooping and painting. For me, a strictly ambient looping performance is like painting a sky, sea, and distant range of mountains on the canvas and leaving it at that. For me, that is neither intriguing nor particularly inspiring, but if the painter goes back and adds some interesting and creative detail, this means to me that the artist has something to say, and they have mastered the use of the palette and paintbrush well enough to express it artistically. This is a generalization and personal preference of course. There are paintings and ambient recordings out there that I find intriguing and inspiring, but very few. For example, I'd rather see an abstract landscape with something peculiar about the textures or color choice, rather than a realism portrayal of my back yard or the fruit on my counter-top. Anyway, you exemplify what I'm trying to articulate here. I'm sorry I missed your performance in Santa Cruz. I hear some stereo panning on this...are you using two EDPs after your G2, or are you applying the stereo imaging after the recording? On a similar note related to the G2, is anyone out there using the TC Electronics FireworX effects unit? ********************************* Krispen Hartung http://www.krispenhartung.com info@krispenhartung.com http://artist.amazon.com/krispenhartung http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/krispen -----Original Message----- From: Bernhard Wagner [mailto:loopdelightml@nosuch.biz] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:22 AM To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: mp3 of G2 & EDP Hi This is an mp3 of "me and my guitar" ;-) (not mentioning G2 & EDP...) (size: 5.54M, duration: 06:03) http://nosuch.biz/soundz/Mathon200407200026.mp3 There's more stuff, but I can't seem to get the other contributors' permission to announce it... WTF?! Bernhard