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Re: computers suck creative energy

I'll do you one better...

I haven't turned on my rack of gear in about two years.  Instead I've been playing flamenco, just me and my guitar.  There's something beautiful in the simplicity of fingers moving strings, strings moving wood, wood moving air.

I still like hanging around here listening to you folks grip about gear, though. ;)

Todd


On Nov 28, 2007 12:00 AM, Krispen Hartung < khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
It's liberating isn't it?  For the last month, I have been looping with just my clean jazz guitar sound, and my max/msp looper. I have been concentrating on what I can do with just my instrument without the aid of tone mangling effects, just the tone of the guitar and the power of the looper and its features. It occured to me how easy it is (at least for me) to make decent sounding music with loads of effects as a artistic crutch...a few lush ambient fripp like patches, some long delays and modulation, granular synthesis, layers of effects and pitch, etc. After a while, my primary instrument is overshadowed, the love of my music life that has been with me for  28 years. I find it much more interesting and challenging to work with just my guitar tone now, and see what limits I can push, what boundaries I can leap without the aid of the all so seductive tone mangling effect crutch.  :)  We'll see where this goes....

Kris
 
----- Original Message -----
 

wow, so many good threads at the moment.
 
I would totally agree, adding in more loopers, then a handsonic, then a guitar synth, then loosing two multi fx for six pedals....i only realised yesterday i ha`nt played a single one of my songs through to completion for litterally two months,thats just how caught up i am in all the possibilities of all this new gear (plus i am learning to hand drum which is a whole new game)
 
in the end i went out last night with nothing more then my guitar and DL4 and couldnt had a more fun night...i actually played songs!!!!!!
 
Phill MyOneManBand
 
www.myspace.com/myonemanband
 

> If we can get used to compartmentalizing those roles into their
> chosen times, I think we could be much happier overall. That means
> dedicating scheduled time to building and tweeking all the bugs out
> of a setup until it works just how it's supposed to. Then WALK AWAY
> AND LEAVE IT ALONE. Later, come back and work on mastering making
> good music on that setup. If something goes wrong, make a note but
> leave it until the next build slot comes up.

>


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