| Why not balance the two. I play mostly solo acoustic stuff with a Laptop setup, but all the options are there. Clearly for commercial purposes I cant play ambient drone music and expect to be asked back. But, gigs have a flow. Later in sets, Ill play songs with improvised sections. This is where the elements of the ambient/experimental techniques come in. Similar to a long Jam by a band. For instance, In "Girlfriend is Better" by the Talking Heads, I will lay down slow panning pads, Delays and Filters, then slowly build the arrangement to where there is an almost electronic groove going on. Done right it brings the house down. I love what all the hardcore loopers do here, but for the average audience member its unlistenable( Please, no offense meant). But why not take elements and techniques they developed and place them in more accessible music. That to me is where laptops excel. Plus the size of the rig is greatly diminished. C On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Krispen Hartung wrote: It's liberating isn't it? For the last month, I have been looping with just my clean jazz guitar sound, and my max/msp looper. I have been concentrating on what I can do with just my instrument without the aid of tone mangling effects, just the tone of the guitar and the power of the looper and its features. It occured to me how easy it is (at least for me) to make decent sounding music with loads of effects as a artistic crutch...a few lush ambient fripp like patches, some long delays and modulation, granular synthesis, layers of effects and pitch, etc. After a while, my primary instrument is overshadowed, the love of my music life that has been with me for 28 years. I find it much more interesting and challenging to work with just my guitar tone now, and see what limits I can push, what boundaries I can leap without the aid of the all so seductive tone mangling effect crutch. :) We'll see where this goes....
Kris
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wow, so many good threads at the moment.
I would totally agree, adding in more loopers, then a handsonic, then a guitar synth, then loosing two multi fx for six pedals....i only realised yesterday i ha`nt played a single one of my songs through to completion for litterally two months,thats just how caught up i am in all the possibilities of all this new gear (plus i am learning to hand drum which is a whole new game)
in the end i went out last night with nothing more then my guitar and DL4 and couldnt had a more fun night...i actually played songs!!!!!!
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> If we can get used to compartmentalizing those roles into their
> chosen times, I think we could be much happier overall. That means
> dedicating scheduled time to building and tweeking all the bugs out
> of a setup until it works just how it's supposed to. Then WALK AWAY
> AND LEAVE IT ALONE. Later, come back and work on mastering making
> good music on that setup. If something goes wrong, make a note but
> leave it until the next build slot comes up.
>
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