Re: Looping has feelings

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

Thought it was great too Matt as well as the whole discussion.  I wanted to comment and thought no I wouldn't re Buz's train of thought.  For years I knew nothing of looping, played in a solo guitar style ala my influences.  As that music grew with me a lot of it had natural repetition, almost akin to a form of looping organically maybe.

 

I came in to this community seeking some new inspiration and exploring the possibility to see if technology could expand me, my music.  I would say some good things came from it.  I've tried several different setups, technologies and at times I think some good comes from it but at times in my case I think I'm guilty of what most of you would call just 'riding on the back of the truck' meaning just improvising over a passage but not necessarily doing creative things with it.

 

I began this year feeling that I needed to return to a focus on the guitar and less improvised more composed or perhaps as it's gone a combination of the two as the process clearly helped me grow.

 

I still feel there is a sense of looping going on in some of my pieces from the repetition standpoint and at times particularly in a couple of newer pieces I'm trying to think that way, to try to have a figure going in my tapping or left hand and alter the picking or do something else if I can physically orchestrate it.  I still love the technology, particularly the reverse envelopes and such and need to think about how I want to use it.  I think in reality I"m just continuing to explore the idea of how much technology feels right for the music I make.  I certainly have grown from the standpoint of friendship and support in all of you plus I have loved being part of the looping festivals and hope to come this fall even though I may have to be creative about how to present myself.

 

Jim

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

LOL - great subject line, Matt! :-)

I too like the game to never letting a loop play back sounding exactly
the same as last round.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I love that after someone started a thread about "How NOT looping is
> good for me", someone else started a thread called "How looping IS
> good for me". There there, Looping, don't let those mean people make
> you feel bad.
>
> When I'm playing in my band (tinyowl.bandcamp.com), looping feels more
> like cheating: The drummer and bass player each get one voice, but I
> can get multiple. I'm trying to train myself to loop in less invasive
> ways - such as creating a very very subtle textural bed, or to record
> a loop and make live manipulation of that loop my instrument in a
> while. I don't think it should ever be a 100% one way or the other
> thing though.
>
> Even in solo sets, I try to have occasional passages where I'm not
> looping. It's a bit of a challenge when your instrument is something
> that's mildly annoying to hear when used without effects (drum
> machine). It's fun though - it feels a bit like trapezing without a
> net. Also, I think it adds strongly to the dynamic variety of a set.
>
> --
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