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Re: Software Loopers and Hardware Loopers
Here is an interesting correlation, maybe. In past years, I noticed that
the
avant-garde, experiemental loopers tended to use more laptops. Remember
the
year when Jeff Kaiser and I played together? There were a lot more laptop
users then, if my recollection is correct. This year, I felt as there
were
fewer avant-garde loopers...explaining less laptops? I am not sure. This
is
just a hypothosis. Personally, I liked it when you brought in more of the
outside players, Rick. Either choice, outside or more mainstream doesn't
appear to have any impact on audience turnout, based on my last 4 years of
playing at Y2K. If anything, the more unusual loopers attracted more
interesting listeners. I miss seeing loopers who are on the edge.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
> Coming out of my post loopfestival coma that I always seem to go
> into each year, I noticed a really surprising thing at the
>loopfestival
> this year:
>
> From being on this list I just assumed that the festival would be
> increasingly dominated by laptop
> live loopers but by a cursory count (and this is very cursory) I think
>I
> only saw three or four people
> using laptops in their sets. Everybody else (35-40 artists) were
>using
> hardware.
>
> I was shocked by this.
>
> Maybe the hardware people on the list just aren't as vociferous or as
> prolific as posters
> as the software people.
>
> What do you'all think?
>