Re: Looperlative - Max Time?

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

 Dear Kim,   your points about just recording the whole process
as opposed to saving specific loops is really well taken and the
only answer I have for you is that, imperfect as it is,  I don't do
this a lot merely for the sake of lack of time in setting up and having
to take even more gear.

Adding that laptop with the breakout box to record everything is another
small load from the car and another 10 minutes of dicking around tacked 
onto
my already too long setup (and ask poor Steve Lawson who had to share
the small  Looperlative booth with me at NAMM with my 'minimal' setup how 
much
gear that is.........lol).

It's imperfect but I was grateful at the end of the tour that I saved a 
dozen
loops from it.

Many of them I couldn't even remember the specific concerts from which 
they 
came
but was really pleasantly surprised to rediscover them.

Also,  one thing I love to do is to take a loop and then really freak it 
out 
with many different
VST plugins that I have (including things that radically repitch or 
slice/dice and rearrange
the loop) to create new loops.

I've been thinking seriously of doing a record project this next year 
called
PLAIGARISM where I will just go back over my recorded output over the last
25 years and 'steal' from myself to create new music that is really 
different from the
actual things that came out originally.    It's like doing a remix record 
of 
oneself
where the expressed purpose is NOT to create new versions of tunes but to 
create completely
new tunes with material.

I did a fascinating and fun record a few years back with Michael Haumesser 
(Not Michael) and Ken Lee
called Thr-3-mix  where we each created one piece of 
music..............sent 
the others all
the components of the each piece (without sending the final piece) and 
have 
the others make
a brand new piece of music using only the elements of the piece.

It's available as a free download if you are interested at:

www.notnoise.com

You have to get to it with two clicks from there  but it's such a 
beautiful 
and creatively minimal website I wanted everyone
to experience it directly

Along with a beautiful abstract electronica pop project called 'Tongue 
Tongue'
 that my wife,  Chris Wedertz also did with Michael.

I've often thought of suggesting that idea to the people at the CT 
Collective as a way to create a new CD.

Michael is an amazing artist who does creative work that has inspired me 
all 
my life.  He just moved back
to the Santa Cruz area after living in Rhode Island for a long time. 
Check his site out.