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> I myself am seeing this to the point of > maybe even signing off this list for a while OH!!! Ouch! Damn! I have lurked on this list for long-- Keeping my trap shut. And now, I pop up few times with some dumb chit and artists start dropping off !! > At some point, I think you have to look at the raw reality of the fact > that maybe my/your/our fascination with another glitch or knob or pedal > or VST or HDWR is really just an excuse not to be making, growing and > learning about our actual music. apologize all around, really. I know what you mean when you say you just need to get the music out there. And its true that technology pursuit can derail the focus on creative expression. I have this artistic struggle myself-- I suspect many here do . I believe its a left brain right brain thing-- like all musicianship. Think about it. Your capacity to play your instrument, sing in key, control timbre, write a good song, book and promote, set up the PA to sound good at the gig-- all this stuff is developed through arduous self discipline, trial and error, return to bat again an again. The people on this list who really know me can vouch for the weird absence of my solo work in a sizable body of released recordings. An endless cycle of innovation opportunity and challenge is certainly one of the reasons that my own album is not in my catalog--I want to break new ground with any personal artistic statement that I make.... Well, I am no pup any more. It recently occurred to me that I might be mortal after all. And with this humbling notion came the certainty the only real ground that need be broken in order to truly innovate is within. Whether I play a ten can and a string or a complex looping rig. Still the range of my expression when playing tin can... leaves something to be desired. Right now, I am giving a lot more time to my right brain-- writing with the lap steel and acoustic guitar, singing, writing lyrics and songs--- But this is not at the expense of my looping pursuit. It is in compliment. The songs I am writing and the potent production methods I follow are informed by the ten thousand hours of technical discipline that precedes my creativity. I think what I am saying is, the pendulum swings. Go open you creative dam and let it flow-- but don't sell your rig. It will come back around. And with that-- I am shutting up. Please don't any body drop off of this wonderful list because of something I said! Daniel On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Andy Owens wrote: > ......Daniel T said..... > > > "No matter what your platform, (i prefer them all :) the price of > admission to create unique and idiosyncratic art with a looper is often > high. Thats not to say that you can't make great looping art with a > delay pedal, but if you want to innovate performance workflows that > facilitate your own compositional style, you may have to buck up the > midnight oil in a very big way. I certainly have had to pay a lot of > dues to the "WTF-is-going-on-now-Gods" in order to break through on any > looping platform...HW or SW." > > > > I just wanted to say, man that is some smart sh_t right there!!!!!!!!!!! > > DT if you ever start a commune or something dude I am in. > > At some point, I think you have to look at the raw reality of the fact > that maybe my/your/our fascination with another glitch or knob or pedal > or VST or HDWR is really just an excuse not to be making, growing and > learning about our actual music. I myself am seeing this to the point of > maybe even signing off this list for a while, not because I don't love > ya'll, best list I was ever on, but I gotta move on and make some music > out in that scary non=looping understanding world!!!! > > So, I'm going out, out of the closet, out of the basement, into the > storm!!!! Will let ya'll know how it works out, I am anxious to get your > opinions on what I am gonna be doin. > > BUT first to a trade show in Boston (clams clams clams clams please tell > me they are in season!!!) then cave diving in Mexico Yucatan Peninsula > for ten days. Anybody looping in Boston next week let me know > Tues/Weds/Thurs nights will be there. > > So if I get lost in a deep dark cave ya'll can raffle off my rig, you're > the only ones that could ever figure it out anyway!!! > > Andy Owens > > > > > >