RE: Improv loops (was Re: Upcoming gig

[mark sottilaro <marksottilaro@sbcglobal.net>]

--- "Hartung, Kris" <kris.hartung@hp.com> wrote:

> ...but I love it, the nightmare that is. I love to
> torture myself with
> the insanity of tone mangling electronics. It's
> escapism, egoism, and
> deception all wrapped up into a nice all-to-pretty
> package.  

AH THAT'S IT!  That's exactly what I feel it's time to
move away from.  I get a great rush from all the
above, but I wonder if my audience (outside the
appreciative looping community) gives a rat's ass. 
It's funny, I've become less and less a fan of Andre
LaFosse's music as he's become more and more adept at
manipulating his EDP.  I feel it's the difference
between being a great gymnast and being a great
dancer.
> 
> Yet, sometimes there is beauty in removing the
> security blanket of electronic effects, the fancy
dressing around the
> window pane through which we see/hear just the
notes, the gist that >has made music "music"
> for the last few thousand  years. Once in a while I
like to plug my
> acoustic guitar into just my EDP and see what
happens with the
> simplicity of that one set of tones and timbres.

Part of what made me start thinking all these thoughts
was the fact that what I felt were some of my best
moments was when I was just feeding my guitar into my
VOX TonelabSE's 8 sec looper.  Simple.

My hope is to look back to my more pop/song orientated
past and use loops more like Fripp/Gabriel did in
"Here Comes The Flood."

Mark