Re: hiding behind technology (was: what a loop has to say)

[burnett@pobox.com]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill wrote:

> ok, here's another kind of position in this debate:
>
> The instrument I play is "effects". I sometimes hide these effects behind
> playing on something non-effect, like a guitar or keyboard.

In a current project I'm working on, that's exactly what I'm doing: I'm 
working with a tuba player, whose mic'd tuba feeds into my effects 
chain of lots of pedals and 3-5 looper pedals. I'm live looping, 
effecting, passing the loop to another of the loopers, layering, and 
playing his variably-processed loops back at him, while he's welcome to 
play more live over my looping back at him. I'm not using at present, any 
sound-making devices myself, I'm playing with his sounds as they sound 
like something I can work with. It's fun.

best,
Steve B
http://www.subscapeannex.com/about_steve.html