RE: memory and improvisation

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

Kim explains:
>
>I think it is very interesting that Matthias, who defines himself 
>musically as an improvisor and brought this topic up, is also the 
>main inventor of the Echoplex. It is interesting to see how one 
>affects the other; Matthias' needs for being able to use and 
>manipulate loops in a very spontaneous way during improvisation has 
>very much to do with why the echoplex works the way it does. And 
>using the echoplex for years in improvisational looping continues to 
>inspire ideas for the next generation of it. He created tools to 
>solve his problems and meet his needs. Or perhaps you could say, he 
>created a given set of improvisational looping techniques and then 
>created the instrument to enable him to do it in real time.

To be more acurate: in the first year I implemented what I needed. 
Then the other 7 years, I implemented what other users needed (with 
the exeption of the new SyncRec function in the upgrade - which 
similarely worked in my units since '94, but was not mature :-) It 
helps a lot for improvising with partners)

>The loop space gets all filled up and layered deeper and deeper and 
>it turns into the giant wall of sound loop that demolishes 
>everything in it's path. And then they don't know what to do with 
>that, so at the end they just turn it off, which for me as a 
>listener is rather like running through a very thick and noisy fog 
>and then suddenly colliding with a brick wall.

brilliant picture, Kim!

>Move past the idea of an immutable loop that gets saved and recalled 
>and triggered and repeated but never itself changes, to where the 
>actual process of creating and changing the loop itself becomes the 
>form and then the music....

thats it!
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