Re: 2007!!!!!

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

wonderful mails brother happy new year to you and all
as well!
But you didnt tell me you play the armenian Duduk i
love that instrument! where did u get it??
Cheers
Luis



--- RICK WALKER <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> Happy New Years to Everybody!
> 
> I think 2007 may be the cultural watershed year of
> this first decade of the 
> new Millennium
> in much the way the 1967 and 1968 were defining
> years, culturally in the 
> 1960s.
> 
> We've been in a really flat place for a long time
> here in the United States 
> (waiting out the Bush
> regime's end) but I think the tide has turned,
> culturally and artistically.
> 
> The older paradigms of the music industry are dying
> rapidly (Tower Records 
> completely out of business?).
> We are in a new phase where people don't listen to
> whole albums much 
> anymore..................they are able
> to get the lion share of their music for free on the
> web and listen to it on 
> I pods.
> 
> A lot of things are changing which means that a lot
> of new ways of 
> communicating  are on their ways.
> 
> The musical and artistic communities of the future
> are starting to be built 
> now through places
> like this website,  tribe.net,  myspace,  
> youtube.com,   etc.
> 
> The amount of information on many, many things
> musically is available almost 
> instantaneously, now on the web.
> I spent the evening watching looping French pop
> vocalists,   Russian world 
> fusion multi-instrumentalists,  12 years
> old South Indian girls who are going to be the next
> generations' master 
> drummers,  online tutorials for
> Max/MSP and Jitter,   directions for reinstalling my
> MAudio Firewire audio 
> computer interface,   all
> just sitting in front of my computer.      I worked
> on Arabic maqams on my 
> Armenian Duduk,  my purple anodized
> pocket trumpet,  my Rick Turner purple fretless
> acoustic/electric bass and 
> my voice out of a book that I found
> online and ordered through the independent bookstore
> where my wife works.
> 
> Ten years ago,    ney  five years ago,  I couldn't
> have possibly had as 
> productive and knowledge increasing a day as I did
> today.
> 
> ***********************************
> Someone once said that artists are the Antennae of a
> Culture.  Because they 
> are so sensitive,  they can frequently see changes
> coming in the culture long before they occur.
> 
> It's an exciting time to be alive............... a
> challenging time to be 
> alive, ecologically and economically.
> A lot of things are going to change and very, very
> rapidly.
> 
> I think we are on the cutting edge in this musical
> movement of Live Looping 
> of a lot of what's going to change and define
> the paradigms of live playing in the next decades to
> come.
> 
> In the past years,  a very large number of very
> famous and prominent artists 
> had musicians in their bands who are using live
> looping tools.   I saw a 
> show with Thomas Dolby,   Loop Station and Genie
> where EVERYONE was looping 
> live on stage
> and there wasn't a single word about Live Looping
> anywhere.     That made me 
> really happy.
> 
> We are finally starting to arrive in the musical
> landscape.   I could not 
> have written that paragraph 5 years ago.
> 
> Things are changing.
> 
> I feel happy and blessed to be part of this
> community that is so innovative 
> and also so supportive of each other's artistry.
> 
> Happy New Years everyone.     May you all have a
> fantastic year, creatively.
> 
> Throw caution to the
> wind....................................Put out a
> CD! 
> Throw a festival!      Buy recordings from your
> fellow artists.
> Let's do it!!!!!!
> 
> 


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