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Re: Articles on Live Looping as Compositional Tool
Hi Kayla,
I don't have any links for you, but I would encourage you to explore, as part of your thesis, the fact that loop-based composition is a new form of structure for music, much like song form or sonata form (although maybe the latter is kind of a weak analogy). People are wired to recognize repetition, and looping lends not just density but also structure to free-form spontaneous composition. Maybe most of us start in on this road through a desire to be a kind of "one-person-band" for whatever reasons, but we discover that looping has a profound effect on the type of music we make and doesn't just fill in the gaps.
Of course, some of us may more determinedly than others force looping into a preconceived framework in order to achieve specific goals, but i suspect that more of us adapt the framework to the Loop.
Warren