Re: The Eye is as Quick as The Hand

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Per wrote:
"But musical aspects are obviously not the point here, which is sad.
The way Wired is writing implies that the point is to show the world
how "talented" the person is since he can play several instruments for
only two bars each. How lame."


I watched this video closely and it's very apparent that it isn't being 
done 
in real time.
When the lead vocals come in, the timbre shifts and it is suddenly, 
perfectly compressed
and riding over the top..............at the end, when it is panned down 
there are no controllers under his feet.

That being said and done,  I completely disagree with my dear and 
respected 
friend Per on his take on this.

I think it is extremely rare to find a musician who can not only write one 
bar parts in a song that can continually
keep layering on without causing any timbral, rhythmic or harmonic 
masking...........let alone the fact that this
guy is a wonderful singer;  a fantastic harmony singer,  a decent drummer, 
percussionist, guitarist, bassist and pianist.

I think his talent is exceptional, despite the fact that he is doing very 
simple overdub looping in the original piece (whether
done real time or not, doesn't even matter to me).

Such arrangement skills............such understanding of the physics of 
music is just unbelievably rare in my estimation.

He may not be doing anything complex in terms of live looping but neither 
did Miro in his set in Y2K6 and I thought his performance
was one of the most effective ones in the entire history of the live 
looping 
festivals that I've been part of.

It's very difficult to layer the 13 some odd loops that this guy did and 
still make it work.

You think it's not true..........................just try 
it..............try looping 13 layers on a pop song and not have it sound 
like utter mush.
It is,  like writing an amazingly catchy pop song that worms it's way into 
millions of listeners minds and ears..............a kind of
holy grail to me.   Many , many musicians put it down, but very few can 
actually accomplish it.

Very, very fucking rare!

I applaud him and can't wait to see him play some 
time...................anyone know how to get him to come play the loop 
festivals?

Rick