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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Paul Richards ><paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yeah, but the title of the e-mail says "mainstream". Who in the >mainstream is doing anything > even like Pat Metheny did with his earlier band Pat Metheny Group in so >far as instrumental > music with varying "world music" influences? I don't see (or hear) >anything coming down the pike. Good point Richard. Experimental music is hard to find these days if you mean really new music, like Pat played in the early 80's, mixing different genres into something new. I don't know if he was the first one doing this, but if he did, that would be my definition of experimental music, in other words ground breaking music. I think Per had a point too that many artists use "experimental" as a way to describe their music, perhaps to tag themselves as "non-mainstream" or as my mum says "strange music"? Actually, I'm using the term experimental music all the time, but honestly, and thinking about it, the ambient stuff I play is far from experimental, it has been done a thousand times before by others the last 30-40 years ;-) Genres - Usually people like to categorise anything you can possibly think, also artists. It's how our brain works, and it helps us to make decisions, find out who you are, which group you belong to. There's nothing wrong about genres. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: > why dont we just say we play downstream music instead of live looping? > i never liked that term anyway:-) Live looping - Imo, "live looping" is a not a good name for a genre to describe music, it doesn't sound very attractive, and from my experience people don't understand what you mean by it ;-) They always ask what kind of music you play, whether you like it or not. If you tell them you play jazz and use multiple delays/looper FX pedals, they always say "I don't like jazz", they never say "I don't like live looping" and they don't care about your EDP, Mobius or RC-50. However, it's interesting to tell people about live looping as an instant composing technique and explaining them that it helps you to write songs. Interesting thread! :) -- Sjaak Overgaauw http://premonitionfactory.com/ http://livelooping.be/