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Re: Live Looping in an ensemble context
From: "Matthias Grob" <matilists@atarde.com.br>
>
> I allways felt a bit sad that although live looping makes playing solo
> easier, it might also cause people to stay alone.
> One of the main reason to build the LOOP delay (which turned into the
> EDP) was the BrotherSync feature.
> I did the first session with it in '92 with David Hopkins.
> But before I had great times to play with others into the same delay
> machine.
> Some of the best recordings are on
> http://matthias.grob.org/pMusic/CDsE.htm
> The most intense duos have been with percussionists: Giba, Bira,
>David...
>
> The first festival I participated was Loopstock. I looked for someone
>to
> bring me there and Jon Wagner offered some space in his overloaded
> fantastic old Volvo, next to all his drums. When I heard he was
>druming,
> I asked to play together, so we met a few days before and figured it
>out
> and it worked.
> And I started this week to edit the video! (learning...)
> I will tell you when I upload it.
>
> And at Y2k7 I invited Arild Andersen to play with me - which was a bit
> heavy for me (sync did not work), but still fun! ;-)
>
> And today I talked with Per and he suggested to bring up this social
> subject more, and I said: can you point me at videos of duo recordings,
> with at least two players using loops most of the time? He could not. I
> met very few
> Urban Nature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJKp8KvABc
> Lur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIc1uPcZUY
> Improvizone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lV3KN5g-fo (special case
> since Os does the looping)
> Mich Gerber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1srd_bczs (he plays
> professionally with a band, but just him looping)
> Rick, Per and Pellef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAySrzSa7Hg
>
> Yes, to be social here is great, to meet at festivals is even better,
>but
> the best is to do it together!!
>
> Matthias
>
> On 12 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Ricky Graham wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> How many of you loop with an ensemble? Could you get in touch with me
>as
>> I'd like to ask you a few questions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ricky
Back in the early 90s I was still conceptualizing or gestating what I
wanted
to happen with the music; I bought my 7.6 Time Machine along with my first
QuadraVerb from a guy running a Safari Records in Santa Monica... and the
first configuration was like:
Guitar -----\
Juno-106 --|-- Mixer --> 4-track
PC w MIDI -|
Mics -------/
...with the Time Machine and Quadraverb as Aux I/Os.
So between 1992 and when the first 4-track died in 1997, I would drag all
this around LA to rather large private parties we were running, and boy
was
setup a pain until I learned how to plan for it... Around midnight we'd
throw ourselves on the instruments, friends on the Juno, or found
objects/analog instruments/vocals through the mics.
I'd always be on the Strat with pedals in the beginning. Round 1999 I
added
a pair of Zoom 2100s for guitar use (thanks to David Myers on this list).
They saved my cheese one night when the house we played in was completely
non-grounded, and you know what that does to a DigiTech loop unit...
After the first time in August 1992 I decided to cop the old folk tale and
name the efforts Stone Soup Project.
It made for a nice environment to do long, conceptual stuff because the
players were musically adept with similar tastes (Grateful Dead,
Fripp/Eno,
the lot). I got ahold of an old Yamaha MT4X to remaster all these
recordings - it's got the same track order, remember? - and will be
producing a collection of these pieces next year. If I have the ability
to
make it out there to Santa Cruz I intend to call together surviving
participants for a new Stone Soup Project, though it'll probably be down
in
LA where most of the folks still live.
Enuf. Oh, and I posted a new revision of the Kew Water 0.1.4 video, this
one hopefully with a Surround mix.
SP Goodman
*
http://www.youtube.com/spgoodman
http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Goodman