Re: Chord progressions, Multi Lateral Improvisation (looping) (Miles Davis, Bitches Brew)

["Boise Experimental Music Festival" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Original Message -----
>  Sounds good to me!!
>
>  Of course, just a side note, one doesn't need looping technology to do
> chordal improvisation. I do it all of the time, freely contructing 
>complex
> chords or tone clusters on the fly to suit the feel of the moment, etc.
>
>  Kris

Sure. But improvising both chords and melody simultaneously is what
makes it most interesting. Of course that is traditionally possible
with polyphonic instruments as in jazz piano á la Jarret or Kessel
style guitar, but doing it with one voice instruments is where looping
comes in pretty handy.

LOL, Kris - I KNEW you should respond to this post! ;-)   Got Max5
yet, eh? ;-))))D

K: Yes, I am getting predictable these days. Darn. I'll have to work on 
that. And yes, you are right, my comment was more appropraite for 
polyphonic 
instruments, and more specifically polyphonic instrument players who play 
their instruments that way - piano, several jazz guitar players, etc. I 
think improvising chords and melody at the same time on the gutiar is not 
as 
hard as it seems. It is REALLY hard when playing jazz standards and you 
have 
to improvise that way within an idiom, but when freely playing I find it 
much easier to improvise chordally and integrate an improvised melody at 
the 
same time.  It seems more natural than having to do it inside a framework, 
which is why I'll never be a Joe Pass soloist.  That style of playing just 
blows me away...amazing.  One could argue that even my seemingly parallel 
chordal and melodic improvisation is really just sequential chordal and 
sequential melodic improvisation, but switching back so fast that it 
sounds 
they are in parallel. It's like the difference between true multithreading 
processing on computes and processors that do multi-tasking but on the 
same 
thread. They have the speed and efficiency to go back and forth between 
two 
tasks very quickly so that the end result is the appearance of true 
parallel 
multi-tasking. I think many peoplel who multitask well are probably doing 
something similar.

I have not got Max 5 yet, and will probably wait to see how users report 
back on it after a year or so. Right now I am using only my customized 
KaiserLooper in Max, plus my reverb and basic delay objects...nothing 
else. 
So there won't be much immediate advantage in me moving to the new 
version. 
I have taken a break from the effect building and focusing more on playing 
and recording now.

Kris