Re: Academic/musicological research on looping technique?

["Mark Showalter" <folkstone57@operamail.com>]

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> From: Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>
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> Subject: Re: Academic/musicological research on looping technique?
> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:58:09 -0800
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> 
> It's a valid question if you're aware of Steve Reich's work.

What is the question & who is being asked?

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> Subject: Re: Academic/musicological research on looping technique?
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> > Can you elaborate on how looping is a technique of electronics 
> > and not performance?

If a performer electronically loops a phrase, say a 2 measure idea, the 
performer is no longer performing that part. It exists as an electronic 
sample that is just being repeated by a loop pedal or sampler or whatever 
electronic device is being employed. It differers in a compositional sense 
because there is not a musician there reading a piece of music & playing 
the same bit perfectly & repeatedly. Any variations on that bit must be 
accomplished by electronic means, not by a performer i.e. the musician who 
originally played it. Keep in mind we're talking about this in regards to 
music theory & composition that one would learn in school. "Looping" in 
regards to how this emails is discussed does not get covered in a class on 
theory & composition because it isn't relavent there. In a Music Studio 
programme, of course, this is very common, all the way back to the use of 
tape loops in all types of music.

> > At 2010.11.08 05:53 PM, Mark Showalter wrote:
> >> part, but again, it does not mean you get the exact same bit 
> >> played repeatedly. "Looping", the way it is used here, is very 
> >> definitely the idea of a recorded part that gets played over & 
> >> over again. It is a technique of electronics, not performance, 
> >> which is what my point really is.
> >

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