>From: Dion Stewart
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V03 #12
>Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:27:23 -0600
>
>Heh, heh. There actually is a looper here in Minnesota who plays and
>records with solar power. His name is Michael Monroe. I think he
>uses a Jamman in his rig.
>
>http://hometown.aol.com/mmonroedmm/index.html
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>
>There was a thread a while back about whether or not you should
>explain how you're creating your loop based music during a
>performance. Michael does, and the way he goes about it is pretty
>effective. Between his normal pieces he'll explain that he's using a
>device that allows him to record short loops of music and play over
>them in real time. He'll sing something like, "I can record myself
>singing something and then add to it" and capture it in the Jamman.
>Then he'll sing the same 'lyric' ("I can record myself singing
>something and then add to it") in harmony with the first, capture
>that, and let it loop. It only takes about a minute and since he's
>describing looping while looping (would that be metalooping?) it's
>quite effective in communicating to the audience how the looping
>works.
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>
>Dion
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>
>On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 05:41 PM, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>
>>I tried being in a band with Noam, and he insisted that everything
>>we
>>use be solar powered and we just couldn't get it loud enough here
>>in the
>>often cloudy SF Bay area.