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Re: Articles on Live Looping as Compositional Tool
Here are some of the resources I have been using in my MFA.
While not on looping - this might be useful as it talks about the
origins of using the term instant composition instead of
improvisation: http://www.icporchestra.com/
I've also found the articles in DJ Spooky - aka Paul Miller's new book
that he edited, "Sound Unbound" very interesting.
http://www.djspooky.com/articles.php
Deals more with sampling than looping but there are many crossovers.
I'm using a bit of Giles Deleuze as well. His book Difference and
Repetition which I find a bit harder to get through or a great article
in A Thousdand Plateaus called "On the Refrain". Also using Henri
Bergson's concept of intuition as a way to connect improvisation to
philosophical musings. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Bergson)
My thesis will be focused on the more generalized concept of the
relationship between improvisation and composition but hope some of
these ideas are useful. Looping brings with it a stronger sense of
form than open improvisation due to the nature of repetition - but the
core idea that one is composing and not merely making random stuff up
is the same.
Stefan