Re: Attitudes to instruments/loopers (Derek Bailey)

[=?utf-8?Q?tEd_=C2=AE_kiLLiAn?= <tedkillian@charter.net>]

I think this is particularly a problem for guitarists. Heheh. I'm one.
I don't like playing strange guitars in public. I do develop a certain
attachment/raport with a particular instrument -- mostly based on 
familarity with all of it's quirks (and, of course, my own). 

The same could be said about looping gear regarding this "familiarity." 
However, I have used several hardware loopers over the years . . . and 
feel 
I could make valid music with any of them (or no looper at all). It really
doesn't matter to me. 

On the other hand I have no problem whatsoever playing in public
on a non-guitar instrument that I have only passing or no familiarity
at all with. It's very fun and freeing to play in a situation where I am
not just partially, but TOTALLY naive when it comes to playing something
propperly. I can become absolutely fearless . . . in a REALLY odd sort of 
way.

Maybe someone should organize a festival for musicians to play "Mystery 
Instruments" (by blindly pulling slips of paper from a bag or something).
I'd be all for it. It could be really, really fun.

Cheers

tEd ® kiLLiAn

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---- Jeff Kaiser <loopersdelight@pfmentum.com> wrote: 
> One of my favorite reviews (LA Weekly's Greg Burk) said this: "Jeff 
> Kaiser's trumpet is nearly incidental to his overall concept"......
> 
> That actually made me happy.
> 
> It seem's that many people's musical identities are tied to their 
> instrument....but what really counts is the music....and the source of 
> that (in a player) is always internal, away from the instrument....
> 
> 
> Jeff Kaiser
> http://www.JeffKaiser.com
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> 
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:50 AM, a k butler wrote:
> 
> > Kris wrote:
> >> This is because I consider improvisation not just something 
> >> inextricably tied to music, but a way of life and approaching the 
> >> world, both physically and intellectually.  I'd rather have the 
> >> improv music be defined by my own creativity and mind rather than the 
> >> instrument.
> >
> > The instrument is a set of unrealised possibilities,
> > just waiting to be unlocked by a creative person.
> >
> > Whether the instrument is a guitar, a hand-drum, a looping device or 
> > just the stuff in your head.
> >
> > ( ah... that'll get him going :-)
> >
> > andybutler