Re: Ritardandi and accelerandi when live-looping.... any ideas?

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

RICK WALKER wrote:
> Some thoughts on Ritardandi, Accelerandi and stretching time in live 
> looping:
> 
> 
> 1) My brother Bill does this all the time with his Repeater controlled 
> by the
> two expression pedals of his Behringer FCB1010.

Right, I think he did that at Y2K5

Maybe Kris still has the audio for that.

> 
> 2) Additionally,  there are past posts somewhere where we talked about
> stretching time and phrasing in long loops.
 
> You play a long loop that hints at metricity and constant metronomic 
> time but stretches it.

hmm,
or with EDP ( or Mobius) you could Insert a section of free tempo 
into a long rhythmic loop  

> 
> 3)  on last thought:     time is relative in performance so if you lay 
> tracks down that are fixed in length, you can
> then play against that track with ritadandi and accelerandi giving the 
> illusion that the whole track is stretching.

technically "tempo rubato"

> 4)   you can also stop a loop and continue seemlessly playing in the 
> style of what you have recorded with an
> accelerandi or ritardandi  

cheers Rick, nice post

andy butler