Subject: Re: Thanks, and Switching Loops -was- Re: Off-Topicers Delight!
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:55:32 -0600
Wow Richard~
This piece sounds truly amazing.
~Peter T Hutter.
>From: Richard Zvonar
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Thanks, and Switching Loops -was- Re: Off-Topicers Delight!
>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 10:36:37 -0800
>
>At 1:04 AM -0800 1/5/03, Chris Muir wrote:
>
>>One thing I find myself doing a fair amount in my looping is
>>building some sort of simple background, then copying it into all
>>available loops. From there I can develop each copy in a different
>>way, yet because they all share a common base, there is a sense of
>>continuity. Switching between them can still be very interesting
>>because even though they all started from the same root, the
>>development of each loop can be radically different.
>
>I use a similar generative procedure in my music and intermedia
>work. In the latter it tends to be rather less obvious to the
>audience, at least at first, but can help to unify the total
>experience of a piece. An early piece where this procedure was both
>deliberate and clear was my 1982 "Nocturne II." I made the piece
>specifically for a performance art venue that was very reverberant,
>so I took the idea of echoes and reverberation as a basis. I worked
>with it aurally through repetitive musical patterns and tape echo,
>visually through repetitive visual patterns and shadows, and
>metaphorically through literary and philosophical texts.
>
>For instance, I used a reading of the myth of Echo from Ovid's
>Metamorphoses, with two copies of the voice that started in unison
>and drifted slowly apart in time while they also split apart
>spatially and roamed around the gallery through an 8-channel speaker
>system. Simultaneously there was a physics demonstration of standing
>waves, using a giant Slinky. At another point I used the Allegory of
>the Cave form Plato's Republic, with four time-delayed voice tracks
>coming from four individual speakers. This was layered with the
>sound of waves breaking on a beach, while the shadows of objects
>that had been prominent were cast on the ceiling from a hidden light
>source. Perhaps the most overly loop-oriented moment came when I had
>two roller-skating flute players orbiting around the two audience
>groups while playing repetitive patterns.
>--
>
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