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Re: Looperlative on the WEB
do you have a link or archive # to that original
article critical of looping? i'd be interested in
checking it out.
--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> David Battino, who writes a column for the excellent
> O'Reilly Digital Media website just wrote me and
> told me that
> a picture of yours truly demoing the Looperlative at
> NAMM is
> on the front page of that website. I was really
> pleased to see that.
>
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/
>
> David wrote that column about the potential problems
> with loop based
> composition that got a lot of press here at L.D.
> I wrote a long letter
> to that
> site taking him to task for that article (in a
> polite and respectful way, of
> course)
> and he wrote me back and really heard the points I
> had raised which really
> impressed
> me as I had been critical of his original article.
> Now I realize he was
> really talking more
> about the compositional Ableton's Live/Acid/Garage
> Band world than the live
> looping
> world and I have to concur, frankly, with some of
> his conclusions about the
> aforementioned world.
>
> I have corresponded with him a lot off site and
> finally met him at NAMM in
> person
> and found him to be a very intelligent and sensitive
> writer/observer of the
> digital music scene, so I"m thrilled we made it
> onto that site.
>
> You have to click through on that article to get to
> the small blurb about
> the Looperlative.
> At least it is legitimizing for the Looperlative to
> be included in with all
> the huge companies
> who showed at NAMM.
>
> Congratulations, Bob!!!
>
>
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