re: nerds, music, cd's, looping, volunteering...

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 2:10 AM -0300 11/20/97, Matthias Grob wrote:
>>>Anyway , I have taken up this space because I feel this is stuff that is
>>>more valuable to us as MUSICIANS , as well as guitarists. I hope we can 
>get
>>>more discussions on this subject , and thank you Kim , for pionting out
>>>that the emperor is almost completely nude ( and not very 
>sexy)......chew
>>>on that , guys!!
>>>
>>>Your looper in Norway ,  Thomas Woehni
>>
>>That's exactly it. There's a lot more to music and looping and our
>>relationship to those things than the junk we plug into to do it. Easy to
>>forget about that sometimes.....
>>
>>kim
>
>Ok, but why then talk about the (CD-) output of the others, while we 
>create
>our own?

Because we don't always create, often we just listen. And if someone else
is finding some music inspiring or moving or just interesting, maybe others
will too! It's a good thing to share some of the great music we have all
experienced. Many of the artists people listed are great loopers, and it is
almost certain that nobody here has heard everything mentioned. We probably
all have new items on our "cd's to buy list" after the last couple of days!

Also, I think that talks like this bring us closer together as a community.
Musical tastes reflect a lot of things about our personalities and lives
and experiences, and by sharing them we open those parts of ourselves to
the others in a way that is easy and comfortable. We get to know each other
better and can more easily move from there to richer conversation. I
learned a lot about some people here that I didn't expect, and I'm happy
about that! And I was also glad to see a number of people venture out who
had been shy about posting so far. We're glad to have you, please continue
to share your thoughts....

The cd lists maybe are not always about looping, but that's fine. It's easy
to move from there back to the loop. But actually, it is about looping if
you step back a bit and look at the whole of it. Our collective listening
habits reflect a remarkable amount of diversity here, in our looping
community. Looping is not stuck in one genre, it crosses a lot of
boundaries. These differences among us are opportunities to grow. We can
learn from others what we never would have realized on our own, and bring
those new ideas back to our own part of the universe.

One of my motivations to create Looper's Delight was from my experiences
doing occasional tech support for expert echoplex users while I was still
at gibson. I was amazed that these people were coming from radically
different backgrounds, yet all finding a use for this remarkable creative
method! And the different perpectives and musical directions led to
different approaches to looping. I thought: these people need to share
their ideas with each other! Everyone could take such a leap forward....and
so here we are!


>And then not even list it up on the page "loop artists" ?

Yes, that part still needs work. Looper's Delight is mostly a volunteer
effort. Like I've said many times, if it were just me doing this, it would
really suck. There are many people helping out and doing a wonderful job.
But there is still more to do! The Loop Artists section of the web site is
a good example. It desperately needs a loving owner. Please, please, if you
have any interest in this, let me know. It's not even hard, I'm sure you
could get plenty of help and contributions from the list.


>And how about our own sample CD or label?

There was the cd project from long ago, but the guy organizing it
disappeared. Anybody want to take a project like that? Or maybe we even set
up RealAudio sites? Anything is possible.

I'm patient. It might not be perfect by tomorrow, but it gets a little
closer all the time.

kim


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