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Re: Re: City Lights Music Festival and its comparison to a loop fest
I love live looping (real live looping, like Per Boysen or you or Michael
Peters) just as much
as you guys do. I just have this, to put it politely, "quirk," whenever I
hear a looped sample (it
has to be a looped sample; manual repetition doesn't have the same effect
on me), I just
feel excited! Whether it be your Boysens and Davignons or your Chers and
Imogens. lol. I
advertised this looping-like festival just for records, and I'm inviting
DJ'S to LD, because repeated
samples get us GOING!!
Tyler Z
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:41:25 -0700, Rick Walker wrote:
>On 8/22/12 7:58 PM, Tyler wrote:
>>Give me the page on loopers-delight.com (NOT a mailing list archive; a
>>page from
>>Tools, Tips and Tricks, etc.) that says "This site is for live looping
>>only! I
>>repeat,
>>LIVE!" Where does it say that? The home page says the opposite. I
>>discovered
>>this website when
>>Googling tape loops, and tape loops are usually prerecorded.
>
>Loopers Delight does not specifically promote the concept of live looping.
>In fact, our founder, Kim Flint, was very worried that the preponderance
>of live loopers
>on the forum might overwhelm other modes of using loops in music.
>
>But the fact of the matter is that this forum is populated almost
>entirely by people
>who ARE live loopers.
>
>It sort of is what it is.
>
>Everyone's down with whatever you want to do, whatever you want to
>listen to, but
>this is a forum full of intelligent musicians who have strong ideas
>about all things.
>If you say, "I love such and such" for whatever reason, you will
>probably always have
>someone say, "what on earth are you thing" and a debate will ensue.
>
>Matt Davignon is making a good point about DJs without making any value
>judgment about
>what it is you enjoy (he even carefully said it in his post).
>
>We live in the age of Djs.In fact, probably 50% of all the people I
>talk to about live looping who don't understand
>what it is, ask, "Oh, so you mean you are a DJ".
>
>It takes skill to be a DJ and mad skills to be one of the best in the
>class of performers..........but I agree with Matt when he says that 90%
>of all DJs are NOT composers, that they are merely cleverly
>manipulating music that has already been composed and recorded......and
>almost invariably (though there are rare exception) they are NOT playing
>music
>that they even created themselves.
>
>As a live looping artist, I get really tired (and sometimes bitchy)
>about being compared to DJs because
>I've worked so much harder learning how to make music in my life than
>the lion's share of Djs that I know personally
>and the general population frequently doesn't even 'get' that.
>
>Do I value what they do? Usually, yes and they are ubiquitous.
>
>But I don't think it is wrong to have a sense of pride that we are
>actually making music from scratch
>when we perform in a live looping setting.
>
>You keep coming up against that specific pride that exists in this forum
>and it seems to continually bug you,
>but it just is what it is and it doesn't have to take away from anything
>that you love or wish to do
>in your own musical life. I believe people in this community support
>you to like what you like here. It would also be nice for you to
>accept what it is that most of us actually do, musically, in the same
>breath.
>on this forum in the same breath.