Re:Re: pushing limits

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

> >>>for some of us it just happens that our music pushes the hardware
>to the limit,
>
>I guess we want to create music that couldn't have happened before.<<<
>
>that's great. I'm very interested in finding out what's possible with
>a particular set up, exploring possibilities etc. It's just that when
>it comes to actually playing for an audience, or recording music that
>provides the soundtrack to my life, the cleverness of the looping
>comes in a very poor 10th behind 9 levels of musical considerations.

It hasn't really got anything to do with "clever looping",  not for me 
anyway,
I've been interested in musical structure long before I was into looping.

When I was arranging for a band I put in all the daft jump cut changes 
you'd
hear on my looping work.

What I like to hear in a band is interaction.
If there's a soloist, I want the supporting musicians to respond to it.

So that's why the poor EDP gets pushed so hard.
(and yes, the band were a bit traumatised too :-)

andy butler
www.andybutler.com mp3
www.myspace.com/livelooper  ....has a track from my old band