From: Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com>
To: Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>; "Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: any interest in a Looper's Delight online radio station?
Sure it's a loop. By that definition every guy that has ever held down a
key on a sampler is a looper. That makes the definition to broad to be
interesting to me, certainly not enough to motivate me to tune into a
"looper station". By that definition, every dance channel or "mix"
channel on satellite radio is a looper station and I've got about twenty
of those already.
On 6/19/12 1:07 PM, "Tyler" <
programmer651@comcast.net> wrote:
>What I meant was, part of the song (at the very beginning) has the word
>"Amadeus" being chanted. They
>kept repeating the sample where the guy says "Amadeus" before they start
>singing the word (regular
>repetition). Have you ever noticed that? At the beginning, it sounds like
>they used digital technology
>to repeat the word "Amadeus" a few
times. The digital repetition is the
>looping.
>Tyler Z
>On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:01:18 -0400, Sylvain Poitras wrote:
>
>
>>Tyler,
>>If your definition of a concept is too general, it ceases to be a
>>useful definition (it doesn't allow us to pick out instances of that
>>concept apart from everything else).
>>
>>If you want to say that repeating the name Amadeus in a song is
>>looping, I'm not going to argue with you. However, I will not adopt
>>your definition... everything becomes looping under that definition,
>>and talking about looping ceases to be intrinsically interesting...
>>it's like talking about any kind of music but by using a term made
>>meaningless by being too inclusive.
>>
>>Are you confusing repetition and looping?
>>
>>Sylvain
