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Re: livelooping. Ambient.
Hmmmm,
Sounds like we might be a little on our way to perhaps defining
"live-looping" as a particular "style" of music a little too much for my
taste.
Next stop, bring on the live-looping "nazis" -- y'all better make sure
your live-looping musical cred isn't tainted with any other mongrel
musical form bloodlines . . . eh?
Is one looper's music less (or more) legitimately "live-looping" music
than another's because it might be a blues . . . or pop song cover . . .
or a polka?
If such a thought were (or had ever been) a part of this community I
would not have stuck around for 16 years.
If it ever gets to that point, I'd feel ashamed to have been a part of
it for so long.
Just my 2 cents.
If the criteria for a particular piece of music being somehow more
legitimate as "live-looping" music is a consideration of whether or not
it could have existed in any other way or form or category . . . and
that its existance and form was especially and neccessarily dictated and
dependent on a pirece of hardware instead of a musician's mind, then
we've already crossed some sort of line somewhere methinks.
Think very carefully about what you are saying.
These ideas could have implications you don't intend.
Best,
Ted
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:02 AM, andy butler wrote:
essentially yes....need to work on the definition.
With livelooping the form can take on unique features
which take the music out of any regular genre classification.
"any musician who owns a looping device" is likely to produce music
where the effect of the looping device is secondary to other
considerations of musical classification.
The 12 bar blues is loopable, but you wouldn't want to call
it livelooping.
Let's have another go.......
Music in which the sounds are the result of an interaction
between a musician and an instrument, while the form is uniquely the
result of the interaction of a musician with a looping device.
andy