Greetings, all...I unsubbed from the list almost two years ago due to
travel
preparations for moving from San Francisco down here to Oaxaca, Mexico,
but finally have some time to start being a social musician again. I'm
amazed at all the gear news from the past few years - the E-H 16-second
delay reissue, their 2880, the Boss RC-20 and RC-50, Digitech JamMan,
Looperlative, maybe the Repeater 2, all the laptop stuff...
Myself, the only equipment I have right now is a nylon-string guitar, a
fuzzbox and a Yamaha four-track cassette player. (Four-tracks rule! and
they loop,
too!) On one of my trips back to California, I scored a box of 100
endless tapes for ONE RED CENT (how's that for cheap media?)
on Ebay and have embarked on a project to create a nice,
self-contained loop (as opposed to using them interactively in
performance) on each one. I've posted a few so far on my site - swanwelder.com
- under the heading "Repetitive Miniatures".
I've also been working on plans for a dedicated cassette-based looper
that has a lot more of the features found in other loopers,
like reverse play and record, easy pitchshifting, sound-on-sound, etc,
besides some other things that are only really available in the analog
domain. I'm excited enough about it to want to throw some money its way
- any electronic tweakers interested in a new project? If I
get too frustrated with my own sloppy soldering I may want a partner...
Besides mis-using my four-track, I've been composing a lot of solo
pieces, and am
finding I really like repetition (I think I know where that comes
from...). In lieu of a real performance spot, I post files to my site
as I write 'em, which it seems lot of people are doing instead of
releasing actual albums anyway. thank heavens for the Net, I'd be lost
(and lonely)
without it here.
I've been very, very pleased to note that the intelligent (and civil)
nature of this list has continued, I haven't felt like re-joining any
other group but I always really liked this lil' community.
Anyone else in Mexico out there?
Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
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