Re: 'nother Newbie Question pt.2

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Early in my looping career, I took ambient recordings and played over 
them, similar to the way I played over British invasion stuff when I 
first started playing guitar.  I think I learned a lot jamming over 
Music for Airports.  It started when I put that album on a tape that 
we'd play during breaks in between sets.  One day I was the first to get 
back on stage.  To let the rest of the band know I wanted to start, I 
started playing along.  One by one I was joined by the rest of the band, 
we faded out the Eno, then transitioned into one of our original songs.  
This became a part of our live shows for a while.  We then took the 
training wheels off, and never looked back.

Mark Sottilaro

On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 12:27  AM, Chris Olden wrote:

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>   Hello,
>   Being a new guy, I was wondering if any of you had
>   a/any suggestion/s for divorcing one's self from
>   the "song" mindset when looping? After many years
>   of approaching the composition of music from the
>   song/structured format, I'm leaping into the looping
>   deep end and the improvisational nature of looping,
>   and am interested in your thoughts and approaches
>   to it.
>   Thanks again!
>   Sincerely,
>   Chris Olden
>
>   p.s.-I've really been enjoying the threads over the
>        past few days. Great stuff!
>
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