Re: is using pre-recorded loops Cheating

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

The thing is, when people play a repetitive phrase, it's never quite the same despite their best intentions, which is what adds a lot of complexity to early Reich/Glass minimalism.  Each part is varying slightly with each rep.

And it's been a while since I read the "Kind of Blue" book, but my recollection is that they didn't use tape loops on "In A Silent Way", but did edits on the master tape, including repeating one three-minute section at the beginning of IASW.  Were there tape loops in the studio while the musicians were playing?

TH

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

Ted wrote:


"It is sooooooooo boring to hear the same loop going and going and going
(like the Energizer Bunny).

There was a time (about 15-20 years ago) that I thought it was really
cool and "minimalistic" - hey look at me I'm Phillip Glass (or Robert
Fripp, or whomever).  It does have a rather seductive navel-gazing trancelike
appeal"

...

 

In the fantastic book, 'the making of Kind of Blue' by Ashley Khan,  he talks
about the fact that Miles experimented with modalism precisely because it's
harmonic simplicity and openess gave the soloist far more freedom to determ
the harmony of a piece of music.

On, 'In a Silent Way' and *Bitches Brew',  Miles continued on with this them
with the first use of tape looped percussion parts which freed the
instrumentalists and drummers to be able to create a more open and fluid form
of percussive playing.


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