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--- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: > Yes, that may be correct if the gig is announced as > "loopfest" or whatever in that vein. But there is also another > way: if you actively seek out just any audience out there to > confront them with your music without much "arty presentation". I totally agree. I know Rick Walker will argue this to his grave, but I find that promoting a gig as a "looping" gig is the worst thing one can do. Lucky for me I really dig a lot of the beats happening in modern dance music and that let's me often slip unnoticed into ravesque gigs and art functions. When I was busy in the live music world it never even occured to me to use the word looper... ever. Even though most of what I was doing ended up in some sort of looper. "AmbientElectroBlinkyBlipHop" makes a lot more sense than "looper." (to me) No one cares... except you guys... and that's great. I still think loopfests are viable great things that should happen forever. I wouldn't count on them ever bringing you before a bigger audience though. > > > The banner of > > > looping will soon likely no longer be carried, > > > practiced and promoted by an elite and funky > > > cadre of amature-to-semi-pro avant-gardists and > > > musical non-conformists. Praise be! As much as I love the "avant guard" (though I'd argue that there is no such thing) "prog rock" world, I hate it's pretence. It's funny, I've been to enough loopfests to see that a lot of decent music seems to be ignored and the "out" stuff seems to be favored. I kind of like both for different reasons... someone once covered a Todd Rundgren song and I wondered why... but then it occurred to me that it was because that's what he wanted to play and this was a fest about a musical tool, not a musical genre. But I went to loopfests to see progressive new music... probably because the people that made me awear of looping were Robert Fripp and Brian Eno... ah those were good times... but to say that prog rock and ambient music is the music of looping is silly and selfish. LOOPING TO THE PEOPLE I SAY! I'm sure like anything else 90% of it will be pure crap, 8% will be pretty good and 2% will be amazing. That's just how the world is. Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com