Re: Software Loopers and Hardware Loopers

["Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>]

Yes, I meant making music outside of the mainstream box, not playing 
outside 
the US. I would agree on your point in regard to flight tickets, etc.

Kris


> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Krispen Hartung
>> Here is an interesting correlation, maybe. In past years, I noticed 
>that 
>> the
>> avant-garde, experiemental loopers tended to use more laptops. Remember 
>> the
>> year when Jeff Kaiser and I played together? There were a lot more 
>laptop
>> users then, if my recollection is correct.  This year, I felt as there 
>> were
>> fewer avant-garde loopers...explaining less laptops? I am not sure. 
>This 
>> is
>> just a hypothosis. Personally, I liked it when you brought in more of 
>the 
>> outside players, Rick.
>
>
> Kris, did you by "outside loopers" mean people that make music out of
> the box, ie looking for new land rather than sticking with a
> tradition? If so I have no comment. But if "outside loopers" means
> players coming from outside the US there is a simple logistic
> explanation: Expensive flight tickets for gear and rigid security
> regulations just rule out players armed with hardware boxes, leaving
> the laptoppers to swarm the air.
>
> -- 
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> (former EDP/Repeater/filterbank/mixer hauler now swarming with the
> laptop locust)
>