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From: "Andreas Wetterberg" <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk> >I like leaving my tape delays, pedals, delay and looping plugins running >for a long time, for instance while I'm having dinner and whatnot. When I >return, there's often distorted loveliness waiting for me in the cans. > > Do you do that as well? Any tips? When I feel like just having a sound texture for the room I work in, I put something down in the DigiTech 7.6, usually a guitar wash, sometimes with percussive instrumentation, but mostly it's no hard rhythm if I'm after a "truly ambient" (i.e. "as ignorable as it is listenable") loop. However I don't just let them run over dinner. Sometimes I leave it going for as much as two weeks, depending on how hectic things get here (renovating old house, going crazy all over workmen, taking care of 96-yr-old mum-in-law). I think of this as utilitarian music, it provides a space you can think in, wallpaper for the mind, unbound by notions of what a "song" is. Much of the time I find myself internally composing instrumentations/variations I didn't plan on at all, which is more than fun for me. Side effect of tracking through computer, though: I did an early experiment with NetMeeting voice-over-ip stuff, and when it began my partner in Reno noted a warbling, watery kind of sound that he couldn't filter out, but didn't obscure our voices over the connection (56K for me, ISDN for him, after all it was 1998!). Turns out it was a week-old loop of this very kind, and I'd gotten so used to its running that I forgot to mute my Line In on the sound card. (Hense I began laying my plans for broadcasting from home, but that's another story.) Stephen Goodman * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff * http://www.medialinenews.com * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack * http://www.earthlight.net/Gallery