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Re: only a A part?
Yo Mark,
Ya said:
> While I LOVE the things Amy X and Brian Kenny Fresno do with their
> loopers (Brian's a JamMan guy) I always get the feeling that they're
> just trying to get away with not having to deal with not having a band,
> you know?
That's not my take on either of those two at all. The only way I could
see Amy doing her thing with "a band" would be if her band was half a
dozen or more clones of herself, all singing together and starting or
stopping on a dime. And that in itself wouldn't take her own
post-modernist/sample-based theatrical performative element into
consideration (i.e. very visibly beating on her drumKAT controller while
different EDP things leap out), which is such a big part of her "thing."
> Amy seems to have her act down to the note.
Indeed; she's a composer, by her own definition.
> Sure, the
> looper helps her do her show more easily,
See my last comment above - I really don't perceive her thing as being a
"replacement" for a hypothetical band of multiple Amy Neubergs (which is
what she'd need to play her stuff sans EDP). It strikes me as being a
very direct use of the EDP on its own terms, frequently to musical ends
that COULDN'T be acheived without it.
Another perspective: Amy actually HAS a band of her own, so it's not as
if she's using the Echoplex as a means of "filling in" for backing
musicians who aren't available.
Third perspective: might one say that playing along to sequences and
drum machines would be at least as much of a "band substitute" as
layering numerous vocal overdubs?
> but is that what loopers are
> about? Not for me, I think.
But for her, apparently so, yes?
How incredibly boring would it be if people automatically assumed that
looping was supposed to be used for a specific musical style or
approach?
Oh wait... that's pretty much the way it is anyway! ;)
> To me it seems to be the difference between
> making soup from a receipe or going to a market, buying what seems good
> and then making it up from scratch.
> Sure, you'll come up with stuff
> that's not so edible sometimes, but you learn with time.
Could it be that the "learning with time" angle is another way of
describing a person coming up with their own recipie, which they then
draw upon in their work?
> Maybe this
> not so interesting for the audience, but it's a hell of a lot more
> interesting to me as a musician, and to be honest, with the money I
> made doing more pop structured music, I'm in this for fun now.
This does raise the question: why DO you take your music in front of an
audience, if getting what you do across to them isn't much of a priority
in comparison to your own enjoyment - which you say is paramount in your
concerns, and could certainly be done on your own?
Hmmmm...
All in good humor - but serious interest and intent...
--Andre LaFosse
http://www.altruistmusic.com