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

[ld thomson <heatshrink@hotmail.com>]

This is interesting.  I know what you mean by "connecting".  Its hard to 
judge the time shift when I'm soundscaping alone in my apartment, since 
i'm 
not really paying attention to time.  But in a live situation, where there 
are people and movement...I was sort of startled by it.  It wasn't like I 
was in a different time, it was that I felt I was perceiving it 
differently. 
In perhaps a non-western way.

I felt that I had slowed my own view of it. It had a similar feeling to 
the 
perception I'd get from doing martial arts.
I've never considered my soundscaping as a religious act.  I know that if 
I 
don't do it I get really grumpy.

At least there's hope I'm not losing my marbles.

>From: "Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: Re: The Effects Of Looping...Or am I loopy?
>Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:35:33 -0500
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>-----------------------------
>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.
>
>


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