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>From: "RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Subject: 2007!!!!! >Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:59:59 -0800 > >Happy New Years to Everybody! > >I think 2007 may be the cultural watershed year of this first decade of >the >new Millennium >in much the way the 1967 and 1968 were defining years, culturally in the >1960s. > >We've been in a really flat place for a long time here in the United >States >(waiting out the Bush >regime's end) but I think the tide has turned, culturally and >artistically. > >The older paradigms of the music industry are dying rapidly (Tower >Records >completely out of business?). >We are in a new phase where people don't listen to whole albums much >anymore..................they are able >to get the lion share of their music for free on the web and listen to it >on I pods. > >A lot of things are changing which means that a lot of new ways of >communicating are on their ways. > >The musical and artistic communities of the future are starting to be >built >now through places >like this website, tribe.net, myspace, youtube.com, etc. > >The amount of information on many, many things musically is available >almost instantaneously, now on the web. >I spent the evening watching looping French pop vocalists, Russian >world >fusion multi-instrumentalists, 12 years >old South Indian girls who are going to be the next generations' master >drummers, online tutorials for >Max/MSP and Jitter, directions for reinstalling my MAudio Firewire >audio >computer interface, all >just sitting in front of my computer. I worked on Arabic maqams on >my >Armenian Duduk, my purple anodized >pocket trumpet, my Rick Turner purple fretless acoustic/electric bass >and >my voice out of a book that I found >online and ordered through the independent bookstore where my wife works. > >Ten years ago, ney five years ago, I couldn't have possibly had as >productive and knowledge increasing a day as I did today. > >*********************************** >Someone once said that artists are the Antennae of a Culture. Because >they >are so sensitive, they can frequently see changes >coming in the culture long before they occur. > >It's an exciting time to be alive............... a challenging time to be >alive, ecologically and economically. >A lot of things are going to change and very, very rapidly. > >I think we are on the cutting edge in this musical movement of Live >Looping >of a lot of what's going to change and define >the paradigms of live playing in the next decades to come. > >In the past years, a very large number of very famous and prominent >artists had musicians in their bands who are using live looping tools. >I >saw a show with Thomas Dolby, Loop Station and Genie where EVERYONE was >looping live on stage >and there wasn't a single word about Live Looping anywhere. That made >me really happy. > >We are finally starting to arrive in the musical landscape. I could not >have written that paragraph 5 years ago. > >Things are changing. > >I feel happy and blessed to be part of this community that is so >innovative >and also so supportive of each other's artistry. > >Happy New Years everyone. May you all have a fantastic year, >creatively. > >Throw caution to the wind....................................Put out a >CD! >Throw a festival! Buy recordings from your fellow artists. >Let's do it!!!!!! > _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Mobiles, computers, handsets, iPODs and more! http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etradingpost%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fsearch%2Fcat%5FPhones%5Fns%5FTrue%5Foff%5F0%5Fsect%5FAutomotive%5Fsort%5FotRZSQ1BJDZfdRZSQSearchDisplayPriorityIndAVSCotRZSQ1BJDZfdRZSQFirstPublished%5Fsqt%5F2%5Fsrch%5Fmobile%2Bphones%5Fsrchtype%5Fint%5Fstate%5F9%5Fstpg%5F1%5Fsubs%5FUsed%2BCars%5F%3Freferrer%3Dplacement13&_t=759568604&_r=Email_Tagline1&_m=EXT