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

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Great thinking/improving on you feet, Per.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: how do you correct a bad loop on stage, etc


> 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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