Re: what a loop has to say

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

> Believe me, there have been times when I've just closed the loop, and
> found
> such a dire, dark thing before me I nearly had to flee! I'm not talking
> about a flawed loop with a mistake or anything--but rather something
> totally
> unexpected and unique--challenging me to understand it and add to it
> meaningfully.

It's amazing isn't it? I empathize with the dark comment. The last live
performance I did with a percussionist with me was that way...I was just in
a weird, dark, and nebulous mood.  And it didn't help that my guitar was
tuned down a whole third. :) At one point in time, the percussionist just
stopped playing and looked at me as if saying "what dark, evil planet is
your mind on right now...are you insane?".   The freedom on knowing that 
you
have absolutely no creative limitations and you can push the boundaries as
far as you dare is exhilarating.  Do we need a artistic permit to get away
with this?

Kris

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> On Mar 16, 2006, at 8:14 PM, tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote:
>>> I make no judgment on others (or you in particular) for being another
>>> way. Actually, I feel that I am the one who is deficient here. I would
>>> love to be able to sit down on my guitar stool and think in the
>>> abstract . . . okay, I am now going to evoke . . . spring, a sunny
>>> day, lost innocence, memories of whatever . . . lost love, my dog, my
>>> truck, my doughnut, heheheh. Really!
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>> I don't think you are being deficient at all. I think the desire to
>> apply a referenced "meaning" to a loop outside of the music is fine, no
>> judgment here either. But is the application/explanation of meaning
>> really what the music is about? If you are using lyrics it is one
>> thing. Lyrics reference the word-based meaning directly. But your lack
>> of desire to apply meaning to the abstract (your instrumental music),
>> my dear friend Ted, is...anything but deficient. If anything, I think
>> it is being more true to the music, by allowing the music to be itself
>> and to present itself to others on its own terms free of applied
>> meaning that might not only be meaningless to the audience, but even
>> take away from the experience... But now, of course, we get on to the
>> eternal discussion of programmatic versus absolute music... -Jeff
>
>> Jeff Kaiser
>> http://www.jeffkaisermusic.com
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