Re: how do you correct a bad loop on stage, etc

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 28 jul 2006, at 16.03, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> Interesting side topic from this...I have yet to experience my  
> laptop or VST host crash during a performance.


I've never crashed my laptop either, but I'm doing all kind of stupid  
mistakes. Especially at concerts when I tend to take more chances.
Two days ago this happened to me at a festival for experimental  
electronic music gig. I was playing in a crypt-like room with a  
surround audio system provided by Ambiunix in Denmark and the sound  
in there was very intimate - audience pretty close up on me, speakers  
all around as well above in the ceiling. I had a nice thing going  
with seven simultaneous loops (of effect treated sax playing) and  
suddenly I changed my mind about where to go and decided to delete  
the latest loop with the delete button (on my laptop, using Mobius)  
instead of letting it go out by feedback, as I normally do. The  
problem was that the "body memory" of my right index finger was all  
used to the "delete all" actions (that I do between songs), which is  
a double-type on that button while the "delete track only" was a  
single type-down finger hammer-on on the same computer keyboard  
button. So of course my finger did the double type-dance and in the  
heat of the creative flow the complete surround PA audio went dead  
silent. Ooops. I started to play melodies freeley on the next  
sixteenth note while thinking about what to do - and after some four  
"solo break-down" (as I was hoping the audience was taking it) I  
kicked "Record" and ended it by Half-Speed. The free melody then  
became a repeating bass line under my soloing and I could proceed  
just like if it was meant to be so. This time I rushed to build up a  
new song structure much faster to not bore the listeners, but I  
forgot one chord so the chord structure became different than it had  
been before the "accidental solo break-down and re-build-up ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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