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Re: The Effects Of Looping...Or am I loopy?



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From: ld thomson <heatshrink@hotmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: The Effects Of Looping...Or am I loopy?

>Have any of you loopers who are doing soundscaping noticed that your
>perception of time is altered during the soundscaping?

Yes, but for me it is similar to what happens whenever I "connect", if you
know what I mean.  I'm a didjeridu player and the same kind of thing 
happens
when I play it, for example.

We're on the edge of looper religion here...but I'll continue even if I
sound flaky...

* I've been reading "The Power of Myth" by Bill Moyer and Joseph Campbell.
Campbell says that there are two kinds of myth.  The function of one type 
is
to entertain.  The other type teaches you things about the universe, helps
you access the inifinite, etc.  It's a ritual myth.  It struck me that you
can consider music in the same way.  Most of the music I play with other
folks is entertainment.  Most of the looper-based stuff, the soundscaping,
is ritualistic in Campbell's sense.  In my earlier days, I found listening
to such bands as Pink Floyd gave me a similar experience.

* Some examples of early non-technological looping can be found in 
religious
ceremony.  I think trance dancing and shaman drumming are probably 
examples.
In the Christian church, I think the "responsive reading" can qualify as a
looping experience.  Here, the leader recites varying phrases and the
congregation responds to each phrase with (usually) an unchanging phrase.
Consider this situation as the leader "soloing" over a loop!

Dennis Leas
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dennis@mdbs.com

>PS I am drug free.  Although I usually drink Camomile tea when I'm
>soundscaping.

PS I am drug free as well.  Usually I floss when I'm looping at home.