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RE: the impermanence of looping

I love it!!!  The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle applied to recording
music.....analogically, this would mean that when recording you can
observe (record) some variable X, but not variable Y, or visa versa -
same as being able to measure the velocity of a particle but not its
mass, or visa versa.  

It's interesting that people apply this principle to more behavioral
settings, when the Hawthorn Effect is probably more appropriate, where
individual behaviors may be altered because they know they are being
studied or observed....in this case recorded. That seems more fitting
than trying to apply a principle of unobservable physics. Of course, it
doesn't sound as cool as the "Heisenberg Principle", which seems to have
slipped into popular media, like Joan of Arcadia, etc.

Yes, record everything....I like that, like a perpetual musical journal.
:)  Hey, how about Entangled looping parts?  We split a loop, after
which it becomes an entangled (coupled) system....we change the state of
one loop and the other loop change its state instantaneously.  For
example, if you transpose one loop down an octave, the other transposes
up.  This sound like a job for the Vortex to me.  Hmmmmmm......

K-



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Wyatt [mailto:doug@sonosphere.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:27 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: the impermanence of looping


On Jan 29, 2005, at 15:30, Krispen Hartung wrote:
> It's the ol' dreaded "redlight fever"....which has changed, for good
or
> bad, many recordings.   Eventually you get used to it and forget it's
> there.  In this context, the only causal mechanism involved in 
> changing the output of a performance with the record light on, is a 
> psychological one.  Once you get past that, you can archive the magic.

> One good way to start getting used to it is to have someone else 
> record your performances so that you can detach yourself from the 
> process....then eventually you can start doing it yourself.  The more 
> you do it, the more natural it gets.
> But who knows....everyone has the right to be superstitious.

Recording collapses the wave function? ;-)

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HNTCTWF.php

But seriously I agree with you ... the best antidote for red-light 
syndrome is to record everything. After awhile it's not much different 
from pressing the Record button on a looper.

Doug
http://sonosphere.com/