re: New York loopers/West Coast Loopers and an East Coast Call toArms

[Eric Leonardson <eleon@ripco.com>]

Hi Rick,

How've you been? I can't speak for East Coast loopers but just 
thought I'd add my 2¢.

I wonder if some loopers think of it (looping) as one of many 
different ways to manipulate and generate sounds, rather than the 
sole or primary one. Elliot Sharp is an amazing guitarist who uses 
looping effects, among many others, and doubt he identifies his music 
as "looping." Perhaps a Looping Festival suggests a genre or 
aesthetic that musicians don't want to be pegged in, or identified 
with, even though that's not necessarily so. I think of looping as a 
means to an end. A lot of the time I play with the EDP in a way that 
avoids obvious repetition, so that looping patterns are barely or 
entirely imperceptible.

Best regards,
Eric

At 12:22 AM -0700 6/14/01, Rick Walker \(loop.pool\) wrote:
>somebody wrote:
>There are certainly other NYC area loopers... though not nearly to
>  >the same organized level as on the west coast!>>>
>
>Why do you think that is, folks?   There are a lot more human beings on 
>the
>East Coast with the same access to the technology.  Now, I'm not trying to
>start a Tupac/Biggy  coastal styled rivalry here, by any means,  I just
>wonder if anyone has any ideas why this is so.
>
>Also,
>at the risk of sounding like a broken record, why don't some of you
>aspiring loopers put together a New York, or Philadelphia or Boston
>Looping Festival?    I will talk anyone intrigued with this foolish notion
>through everything they will need to know to pull one of these off little
>soires.  I've done about 10 of them so far and, right now, am in the 
>chaotic
>process of producing the World's First Bass Looping Tour with loopers, 
>Steve
>Lawson Michael Manring and Max Valentino and myself.
>Who knows, maybe you could rope in one of the big boys and girls, like
>loopers delight's own, dt (;-) or Elliot Sharp, since it would be any of
>those cities 1st Looping Festival.   Just a thought.
>
>yours,  Rick Walker (loop.pool)

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