Re: why do people think looping is just for guitar?

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 9:43 AM +0300 2/13/98, MAT wrote:
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>>you know, it just baffles me how looping gets so associated with guitar.
>>(at least in some circles...)
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>     I think this is because of the fact that you can make a guitar sound
>     very different using only a delay, distortion and volume padal. I

I guess my lament was actually a little different. That guitar players find
looping interesting does not surprise me. There is a long history of
guitarists mucking with their sound, and if a new type of toy comes out
they want to try that one too.

It's more the perception of looping by others. I regularly see it being
depicted as something for guitar players, whether it's by salesmen or media
or other musicians. *That's* what mysifies me! Is this just because lots of
guitar players do it? Or because it's been guitar oriented people involved
in manufacturing them and therefore that's where they place it?

To me, using real-time loops for percussion or cello or radio transmissions
or whatever seems just as valid. Why don't other people see it that way?
What do we do to change that perception?

kim

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