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11 11 11

 It has been declared by someone to be Nigel Tufnel Day, after the
 member of Spinal Tap with the special amplifier which "has eleven".

Well, here is my 11 11 11 contribution.

I tried to start my looping around 11:11 tonight.  
I could not get sound into Mobius, as so often happens. Maybe the pressure of TRYING caused it not to happen. I've only gotten Mobius to record a loop a couple of times. There is usually something I can't figure out. So, I tried to use my RC-02. The signal out of my preamp didn't seem to work with it, i.e. I couldn't get any sound, so I gave up with the live looping. Please forgive me for making my loops in Logic Pro. Not exactly live-looping and not a whole lot of improvisation. I improvised a couple of tracks in the last third of the snippet. The first three tracks are all looped though. The tempo is 111 bpm and it lasts 1 min 11 sec.

I decided to use an 11 string lute and use the first 11 bars of music on page 11 of the Capirola manuscript as a basis for improv. I just discovered tonight that this Capirola manuscript became available online November 8 and is stunningly beautiful. It was created around 1517 and can be downloaded/seen here:
My video has a shot of the page I worked from.