I've been looping for about a year now, and find that I absolutely love
it at home. I can get lost in loops, I can play and hit wonderful zones
where I feel that I can go on forever, I sometimes create loops that I can
listen to for a long long time and go to some wonderful emotional places
with.
However, sometimes it's just dry -- and not really happening -- and
this seems pretty much out of my control.
And this makes it kind of scary
for live performances. I like the freedom of looping. I don't
really like planning things in advance -- but it seems out of my control
whether anything is going to work live or not.
Another thing that seems to make things
work or not is, the levels of overdubbed sounds in a loop really contribute to
making something ordinary or magical -- and this seems hard to control,
too.
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hi,
i'm
not sure that this is only a looping issue . . . it seems to me it's a
performance issue. in other words, doing an improv set/show is often going to
have the potential pitfalls of dry/less-than-satisfying moments. i believe
this to be the nature of the beast; sometimes it's gonna click, other times it
won't. (i used to feel that 75% success of any given set was good, now my
sights are on 90% or higher.)
my
best advice would be to keep doing it; if you aren't that used to doing it
now, you are developing new creative muscles (so to speak) and will most
likely get better at doing it over time.
my last bit of advice would be to do stuff where
looping isn't the only thing you do; be freer with your "program." do what you
feel at that moment. if you feel that you *must* do looping, that may be
setting yourself up for an expectation/limitation that will curtail what you
are creating.
my 2 cents
worth,
stig