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Re: 2007!!!!!
wonderful mails brother happy new year to you and all
as well!
But you didnt tell me you play the armenian Duduk i
love that instrument! where did u get it??
Cheers
Luis
--- RICK WALKER <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Happy New Years to Everybody!
>
> I think 2007 may be the cultural watershed year of
> this first decade of the
> new Millennium
> in much the way the 1967 and 1968 were defining
> years, culturally in the
> 1960s.
>
> We've been in a really flat place for a long time
> here in the United States
> (waiting out the Bush
> regime's end) but I think the tide has turned,
> culturally and artistically.
>
> The older paradigms of the music industry are dying
> rapidly (Tower Records
> completely out of business?).
> We are in a new phase where people don't listen to
> whole albums much
> anymore..................they are able
> to get the lion share of their music for free on the
> web and listen to it on
> I pods.
>
> A lot of things are changing which means that a lot
> of new ways of
> communicating are on their ways.
>
> The musical and artistic communities of the future
> are starting to be built
> now through places
> like this website, tribe.net, myspace,
> youtube.com, etc.
>
> The amount of information on many, many things
> musically is available almost
> instantaneously, now on the web.
> I spent the evening watching looping French pop
> vocalists, Russian world
> fusion multi-instrumentalists, 12 years
> old South Indian girls who are going to be the next
> generations' master
> drummers, online tutorials for
> Max/MSP and Jitter, directions for reinstalling my
> MAudio Firewire audio
> computer interface, all
> just sitting in front of my computer. I worked
> on Arabic maqams on my
> Armenian Duduk, my purple anodized
> pocket trumpet, my Rick Turner purple fretless
> acoustic/electric bass and
> my voice out of a book that I found
> online and ordered through the independent bookstore
> where my wife works.
>
> Ten years ago, ney five years ago, I couldn't
> have possibly had as
> productive and knowledge increasing a day as I did
> today.
>
> ***********************************
> Someone once said that artists are the Antennae of a
> Culture. Because they
> are so sensitive, they can frequently see changes
> coming in the culture long before they occur.
>
> It's an exciting time to be alive............... a
> challenging time to be
> alive, ecologically and economically.
> A lot of things are going to change and very, very
> rapidly.
>
> I think we are on the cutting edge in this musical
> movement of Live Looping
> of a lot of what's going to change and define
> the paradigms of live playing in the next decades to
> come.
>
> In the past years, a very large number of very
> famous and prominent artists
> had musicians in their bands who are using live
> looping tools. I saw a
> show with Thomas Dolby, Loop Station and Genie
> where EVERYONE was looping
> live on stage
> and there wasn't a single word about Live Looping
> anywhere. That made me
> really happy.
>
> We are finally starting to arrive in the musical
> landscape. I could not
> have written that paragraph 5 years ago.
>
> Things are changing.
>
> I feel happy and blessed to be part of this
> community that is so innovative
> and also so supportive of each other's artistry.
>
> Happy New Years everyone. May you all have a
> fantastic year, creatively.
>
> Throw caution to the
> wind....................................Put out a
> CD!
> Throw a festival! Buy recordings from your
> fellow artists.
> Let's do it!!!!!!
>
>
www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
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