Re: The Eye is as Quick as The Hand

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

The thing is, the more advanced and smoother the looping, the less noticeable it is to the audience.  Besides, the majority of them don't care if you're looping or performing to canned backing tracks, leaving only the looping musicians to sound like guitarists snarking about how a pop artist can't really play that fast and by the way, have you heard the latest Allan Holdsworth...  

Every now and then the media picks up the looping as an angle for the story--remember K.T. Tunstall?

TH

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the guys is a more interesting singer than a looper ;-))   He
just uses looping as a recorder and not as an instrument. His voice is
obviously his best instrument and he should have called in a band to
perform that song together with him instead of performing it with such
pointless looping.

But musical aspects are obviously not the point here, which is sad.
The way Wired is writing implies that the point is to show the world
how "talented" the person is since he can play several instruments for
only two bars each. How lame.

Bring in Imogen Heap or Andrew Bird that uses looping creatively in a
pop song context.