Re: LOOPERLATIVE demo schedule at NAMM

["Emmanuel PERILLE" <perille@club-internet.fr>]

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From: "RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:56 AM
Subject: LOOPERLATIVE demo schedule at NAMM



> I just did a performance with it as my only looper this past weekend
> and had a blast.   There is a new 'Random Scramble' feature
> that subdivides the loop into three different sizes of slices and then
> randomly rearranges them.................this creates some beautiful
> and very unusual ostinato patterns to play over.
> At the same time when you scroll in and out of it,  you come back into 
>the
> portion of the unscrambled loop that would exist at exactly that time in
> the loop playing constantly.
>
> I did this with vocals on a piece where I did a long Alap (langorous
> improvisation that
> introduces the new Rag or scale to the listeners ears so that they can be
> familiar with it as the
> improvisation continues)  with an Arabic maqam (scale) that
> I've been learning recently.   The resultant chopped and remixed track
just
> sounded mesmerizing.
> ......................like Gabon pygmies if they were into composing
> glitch/microsound music with their
> vocals..............lol
>
> I'm in love with this new technque.    There are plans to write software
for
> the looperlative so that these
> choppings can be related to musical rhtyhmic subdivisions (as they are
> random slices not).

Nothing's new here. The djrnd3 in 2003 was doing it as called "wheelsliding
effect", the same feature was already part of the djrnd2 in1998.