Re: loopers hard talk questions and answers

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

If you want to consider the philosophical implications of those questions, go right ahead, but my experience with public performance is that people who don't like what you're doing just ignore you or leave.  They certainly don''t throw a lot of pointed questions at you like some press conference.

The idea that looping is starting to get a "bad rap" is a bit of a straw man argument.  I suspect that someone who already has such a negative view of a musical technique (since it certainly isn't a genre) such as looping is not open to debate, much like people who regard rock music as "just noise".  By and large people don't care what tools or methods you use to provide them with an interesting experience (consider the widespread indifference to Autotune, lip syncing or "guide tracks").  If the music isn't interesting, the fact that you hand-coded all your tools and improvised everything on the spot isn't a mitigating circumstance for the audience.

TH

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:

with all the latest contraversy and loopers comparisons to bands id like to prepare to answer hard questions and quotes from audiences or non musicans who havent really understood and mistaken this artform with self indulgement,egocentrism,incompetence and the negative rap that looping is starting too get lately as it moves more into the mainstream.