Future loop music -- what will it sound like?

[David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>]

Gosh.  I tried asking this to a few forums (including L-Delight) a month or
two ago.  The best answer I got was from a philosopher friend.

She pointed out the question of the day we're all facing is this: What is
the desirable role / place for technology?  So, my speculation is one key
feature we'll find in all our "innovators of tomorrow" will be "surprises"
in the way they address using technology.

But, this says very little about the music, I know.  The question Kim is
posing is what we might be hearing - not how it is produced.  

I'll bet innovators in loop-based music of tomorrow will make loop music 
NOT
SOUND like loop-based music.  The "loop" will become less and less
recognizable.  More and more seamless and less and less synthetic.  We'll 
go
through a "realism" phase, is my guess.

After that...?

David Kirkdorffer  

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@chromatic.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, March 05, 1998 4:48 PM
        To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
        Cc:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
        Subject:        Future loop music (was: Love lorne whiners)

        Where is loop based music going? What directions will it be taking
in the
        future? Not the gear, but the music itself! What compositional,
        improvisational, cultural, etc. directions are things heading in?
Will it
        find more or less of a place in popular styles? Will it find more 
or
less of
        a place in 'high art' styles? What will it be? What might the loop
        innovators of tommorrow be doing? Remember, its a music question,
not a gear
        question.....

        kim
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